Danielle Jonas, wife of Kevin Jonas, is revealing the stressful symptoms that led to her recent diagnosis of Lyme disease .
Jonas, 39, sought treatment when she noticed that she was shedding more hair than usual.
“They tried to tell me it was anxiety. Finally, I had a biopsy that showed I actually had Lyme disease,” Jonas said in an interview with Parents published on Thursday. 4
Lyme disease is a bacterial infection caused by a bite from an infected black-legged tick, also called a deer tick.
Symptoms of Lyme disease include fever, chills, headaches, fatigue, muscle and joint aches, swollen lymph nodes, hair loss and rashes, including an erythema migrans rash .
If left untreated , long-term consequences can include facial palsy, heart palpitations or irregular h