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

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