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[trumpeting_angel]

Don't know but Vermont Edition is doing Lyme disease today at noon. You could call in and ask or post a question. https://www.vpr.org/post/treating-rising-rate-lyme-disease They also have a FB page but as I don't "do" FB, you would have to find that on your own.

Thanks, Bruce! I knew that but forgot. I’ll tune in at noon!

 

[bruceha2000]

I probably would have as well but I listen online while I do my forum following and they just mentioned it again a few minutes ago.

 

[microchick]

I’m very worried for DH. He has no symptoms other than tiredness and disrupted sleep, but he was told after a blood test that he has “inactive” Lyme. I am trying to get him to get a referral to a specialist who is nearby. I don’t like the sound of that. If he had Lyme and was never treated, could be big trouble, right?

Yes he is at risk for developing joint, muscle and cardiac problems later on especially the joint and muscle problems.

They did a segment on the news one night saying that they had found a frozen/preserved human from the ice age or whatever era and when they did DNA testing on the remains they found that there were markers on his DNA that told them he had suffered from Lyme disease. The bacteria had actually worked into his/her DNA and marked it! Truly amazing.

 

[trumpeting_angel]

“Like” is not really what I wanted to put on that post about Lyme in the DNA. I’ve been reading on this and I’m very thankful that there’s a specialist nearby. The mainstream medical community has been complacent for years. How many people, who had been diagnosed, complaining of the same symptoms, did it take for a brave few to sit up and take notice?

I’m very worried for him.

 

[bruceha2000]

They did a segment on the news one night saying that they had found a frozen/preserved human from the ice age or whatever era and when they did DNA testing on the remains they found that there were markers on his DNA that told them he had suffered from Lyme disease.

Was he from CT??
That is pretty amazing. I think that means people have been suffering from what we now call Lyme disease for eons. And it was just "discovered" in 1975??

 

[microchick]

We've known all along that you are special Micro

Aaawwww, thanks bruce. Being an Alien isn't easy, LOL.

“Like” is not really what I wanted to put on that post about Lyme in the DNA. I’ve been reading on this and I’m very thankful that there’s a specialist nearby. The mainstream medical community has been complacent for years. How many people, who had been diagnosed, complaining of the same symptoms, did it take for a brave few to sit up and take notice?

I’m very worried for him.

I was diagnosed in 2010. Many docs were afraid to deal with Lyme because there was conflict with the insurance companies and many mainstream disease specialists on how to treat the disease and for how long. They were finding that it was taking more than the standard 10 day antibiotic treatment and many docs were threatened with losing their licenses if they broke protocol. As a result, many doctors stopped treating suspected Lyme patients. A few hung on, though but the last time I read anything about it they were still being chewed on by the insurance companies and medical boards.

My doctor wanted me to see a Communicable Disease Specialist but my insurance was only for Catastrophic coverage. So I handed him a copy of Buroscano's essay on treatment of Lyme and told him congratulations, he was about to become a Lyme specialist. Bless him, he did read the study and later told me he had several patients beside me who were being treated for Lyme.

The interesting thing is that the studies are now venturing into the question of how many people being treated for MS actually have untreated Lyme Disease? Mainly because the brain lesions that show up on an MRI due to MS exactly mimic those that Lyme Disease produce. The material out there relating to Lyme is pretty overwhelming and the sad thing is there is not one good thing that a tick does for the environment or society in general.

 

[Peep_Show]

Used to be that type O was called Type C.
I started really in earnest donating when I lived in Las Vegas, NV. A HUGE retirement community there that is forever treating maladies and requiring surgery of some sort or another, but less than 2% of the total population there donates. Lots of shortages and lots of great perks to donors. (Show tickets! Buffets!)

I'm O-, R-whatever negative, never had kids (so apparently my blood type is compatible with both sexes), and I'm missing a certain antigen and thusly my donations pretty much all go to infants. (I'm a baby donor!) Don't have drugs in my system, but whatever recipient is gonna get a caffeine jolt.

Funny story... So I'm hooked up to the machine for my 40-minute duration and they've got the TV tuned to Nat Geo with some godforsaken program that's delving into making -- zzzzz -- bicycle racks. I'm the only one in there. I ask if, per chance, they could tune to Discovery Channel for Shark Week. Nope. Won't do it. Might be blood on TV. (Like I'm not seeing blood -- lots of my blood -- traverse the tubes??)

 

[CapricornFarm]

I know I'm O. Not sure of my titer. We had to type ourselves in our A&P class in college. Mom was an A+. Dad was O- but they had to titer him out X7 times to get a stable titer when he had surgery once. I suspect I'm a negative though because mom had a lot of difficulties with her pregnancy with me.

I tried to donate once but they wouldn't take me due to my medications and pre-existing conditions. I know 20 years ago when my mom needed a transfusion due to a bleeding ulcer, it was over 1000 dollars per bag of whole blood. I wonder what it is now cost wise to the patient?

Anyone watch Ancient Aliens? They had a segment some time ago about blood types. If I remember this correctly, there was a period of time where the only blood types in humans were A-, A+, B-, B+ and AB + and -. Then suddenly O appeared and nobody seems to know why it showed up or how it showed up in our genetic profiles but they insinuated that it was kind of a unique and odd ball blood type and people who have it are genetically 'different' from the average human.

When we heard it, DH looked at me and told me he knew it all along.....I'm an alien..

Well, that explains a lot! Hubby is an O! I am part of the 6% that has A-.

 

[ronott1]

Aaawwww, thanks bruce. Being an Alien isn't easy, LOL.


I was diagnosed in 2010. Many docs were afraid to deal with Lyme because there was conflict with the insurance companies and many mainstream disease specialists on how to treat the disease and for how long. They were finding that it was taking more than the standard 10 day antibiotic treatment and many docs were threatened with losing their licenses if they broke protocol. As a result, many doctors stopped treating suspected Lyme patients. A few hung on, though but the last time I read anything about it they were still being chewed on by the insurance companies and medical boards.

My doctor wanted me to see a Communicable Disease Specialist but my insurance was only for Catastrophic coverage. So I handed him a copy of Buroscano's essay on treatment of Lyme and told him congratulations, he was about to become a Lyme specialist. Bless him, he did read the study and later told me he had several patients beside me who were being treated for Lyme.

The interesting thing is that the studies are now venturing into the question of how many people being treated for MS actually have untreated Lyme Disease? Mainly because the brain lesions that show up on an MRI due to MS exactly mimic those that Lyme Disease produce. The material out there relating to Lyme is pretty overwhelming and the sad thing is there is not one good thing that a tick does for the environment or society in general.

Since MS is a syndrome with no single cause, it makes sense that Lyme Disease could be one of the causes

 

[Peep_Show]

Aaawwww, thanks bruce. Being an Alien isn't easy, LOL.

Let's get PC here... You're an undocumented extraterrestrial, micro.