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Is it possible for lyme disease to be misdiagnosed as ulcerative colitis?
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I doubt it: With ulcerative colitis you really need to be having diarrhea with blood in it. Most lyme disease doesn't do this. I think the main connection would be fever and joint pain, which you can see with both. But I would imagine that UC would not commonly be mistaken for lyme disease.
Answered 7/1/2014
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