3. Joint Pain
Another early symptom people with Lyme disease may report pain or stiffness of their joints. Joint pain often comes and goes. The joints may be painful and swollen. You may notice that they are warm to the touch. A limited range of motion in your joints is often noticeable as well. The joint pain may move around.
You may find it hard to move your neck one day, and then the next day, you cannot bend your knees. This pain can, at times, be very severe. You may find that several of your joints are swollen and hard to move. The issue with this symptom is that often people will write off joint pain because they think that they are just getting old or that they had an extra challenging workout one day. If you have joint pain along with some of these other symptoms, you will want to tell your doctor that you think you have Lyme disease.