Other common flu-like symptoms are headaches, dizziness, fever, muscle pain, and malaise. About 50 percent of people with Lyme disease have flu-like symptoms within a week of their infection. Your symptoms may be low-level, and you may not think of Lyme as a cause. For example, when fever occurs, it’s usually low-grade. In fact, it can be difficult to distinguish Lyme flu symptoms from a common flu or viral infection. But, unlike a viral flu, for some people the Lyme flu-like symptoms come and go. Here are a few statistics from different studies of Lyme patients:
- Seventy-eight percent of children in one study reported headaches (8Trusted Source).
- Forty-eight percent of adults with Lyme in one study reported headaches (20).
- Fifty-one percent of children with Lyme reported dizziness (8Trusted Source).
- In a 2013 study of adults with Lyme, 30 percent experienced dizziness (15Trusted Source).
- Thirty-nine percent of children with Lyme reported fevers or sweats (8Trusted Source).
- Among adults with Lyme, 60 percent reported fever in a 2013 study (15Trusted Source).
- Forty-three percent of children with Lyme reported neck pain (8Trusted Source).
- A smaller number of children with Lyme reported sore throats (8Trusted Source).