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re: LYME’s disease
Posted on 9/4/22 at 12:06 pm to slutiger5
Posted on 9/4/22 at 12:06 pm to slutiger5
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What made you get checked?
I went on a trip to Colorado that included hiking and I found a red spot on my inner arm that I thought MIGHT be a tick bite. I started feeling a bit sick upon returning from the trip and freaked out a bit leading to googling stuff based on symptoms (no fever, just a sick feeling in general). Decided if it was Lyme then I needed to get some treatment ASAP and was put on doxycycline. Lyme was the only condition that I was concerned about as all the other possibilities didnt pose any long term risks (I know I should have gone to a doctor for that sort of decision).
The important thing is to check your body for ticks each day if you're in an endemic area. As I said in an earlier post, it takes the tick carrying the disease quite a while to actually infect you. Even if it latches on you can find it and remove it before anything serious happens.
I'm also pretty sure Lyme disease is quite rare in Colorado, and I even thought it might've been a bout of Rocky mountain fever (which can also come from ticks).
Ultimately, I think it was a combo of being tired and a shirt that chafed my arm. I haven't experienced anything since those first few days of feeling sluggish, but it didn't do any harm to take the precautionary round of antibiotics to make sure.
This post was edited on 9/4/22 at 12:08 pm
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Posted on 9/4/22 at 12:20 pm to BarCo49
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Tested positive on an ELIZA screening but didn't show enough markers on the western blot to be called lyme.
It's ELISA. Also timing is everything on the Western blot. Too early and your body simply would not have had time to make the antibodies that they are testing for. Lyme disease also suppresses the immune system and that by itself can cause a false negative on the Western blot. I am not sure what the false negative rate is on lyme but I remember it being pretty high, 20%+ wouldn't surprise me.
Posted on 9/4/22 at 2:50 pm to BarCo49
This thread got me interested and I ended up down a bit of rabbit hole. I found this four part write-up about a doctor in Missouri who went to war with the CDC trying to prove that Lyme Disease, or a Lyme-like disease, existed in Missouri and geographic areas outside of its traditional footprint. Worth the read for anyone interested, though I haven't done any research into the guy outside of this article.
Rebel with a Cause: The Incredible Dr. Masters
Rebel with a Cause: The Incredible Dr. Masters
Posted on 9/4/22 at 3:57 pm to schwartzy
That’s the only place you get it
Posted on 9/4/22 at 5:19 pm to Cracker
I have a family member who has it. Lived in New England and did a lot of camping/hiking. She didn’t knowingly got bit by a tick. Didn’t Show up with the classic symptoms of a tick bite, bullseye rash etc. so she didn’t/couldn’t have anything. except, over time, all the symptoms showed up. She didn’t test right and so she never got treated properly. 20 years later, through a series of odd coincidences, she wound up seeing a doctor who had some exposure to Lyme disease and all that may go with it who sent her labs off, Elissa etc. and low and behold she was positive . What happens if you have an illness for 20 years that never got treated? Too much to go into here. Lifelong problems affecting every part of her life, neurological problems, chronic pain, etc.
wouldn’t wish it on anyone
wouldn’t wish it on anyone
Posted on 9/4/22 at 5:21 pm to schwartzy
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Was this from a tick?
Where else do you get lyme's disease?
Posted on 9/4/22 at 6:54 pm to OweO
Reading Dr. Master’s story doesn’t inspire much faith in the CDC.I’ve lost faith in them since the Covid pandemic but looks like I should have never had any faith in them.It doesn’t make sense they are so obstinate in trying to dismiss Dr.Masters research and evidence.Just a bunch of incompetent government doctor,I suppose.
Only good thing about fire ants is that they prey on ticks.I live on family property,before fire ants had plenty of ticks.Since fire ants seldom get ticks nor do my dogs.
Only good thing about fire ants is that they prey on ticks.I live on family property,before fire ants had plenty of ticks.Since fire ants seldom get ticks nor do my dogs.
Posted on 9/5/22 at 10:09 pm to chuckie
The rash rarely shows up if you get bit antibiotics Elisa test is the most accurate odd we have not found better treatment for this, it’s a spirochete similar to Syphilis but is not as vulnerable to anti microbial treatment. Yes it’s debilitating sorry to hear that she has had such a bad time.
Posted on 9/5/22 at 10:14 pm to BarCo49
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My doctor said there's no Lyme in our part of the world (south Alabama) etc. etc.
I know a guy who swears he caught it in Spanish Fort
Posted on 9/5/22 at 10:25 pm to CCTider
I may get downvoted for this but I don't think chronic Lyme disease exists, at least as far as it being a continuing Borrelia infection post-treatment.
I think it's probably the antibiotic therapy that leaves people with chronic difficulties and the reason that some people have long-term trouble is because their microbiomes don't recover after being blasted with antibiotics.
I think it's probably the antibiotic therapy that leaves people with chronic difficulties and the reason that some people have long-term trouble is because their microbiomes don't recover after being blasted with antibiotics.
This post was edited on 9/5/22 at 11:04 pm
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