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[microchick]

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

Bwa ha ha ha ha ha! Green card for a green alien! I love it!

But seriously or not so seriously depending on how you look at it, the Ancient Alien episode dealing with this subject said that the O blood type appeared suddenly in our evolution and nobody can explain how it developed or why. Their theory was that there was genetic modification going on blah blah blah which was funny but hearing about how suddenly the O factor developed made you stop, wonder and think.

 

[ShrekDawg]

They ask a lot of questions and after they take your blood they test it for a number of diseases.

Thanks! That’s helpful.

 

[perchie.girl]

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.

I dont know how many ticks i have pulled off me when I was a kid... Riding out in the Chaparal... when I came back one time I pulled forty off my horse... and another ten off me.... Not dug in but looking for a spot to settle.

I did find a couple of bites and one crawling across my forehead while watching tve... It was at least forty years or more ago. Never heard of Lyme till about ten years later.
Asked a doc about it and he said lyme was an easto coast deal. I let it rest.

Now I think I need to do a little more research....

deb

 

[perchie.girl]

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.

 

[perchie.girl]

Oh Shrit....

https://www.sandiegocounty.gov/content/sdc/deh/pests/lyme_disease.html

deb

 

[ronott1]

Oh Shrit....

https://www.sandiegocounty.gov/content/sdc/deh/pests/lyme_disease.html

deb

Lyme disease is on the West coast.

 

[getaclue]

If memory serves, I thought Lyme disease was a result of the ticks getting infected with something. At first, it was only infected ticks that could transmit it. As it began spreading throughout the tick kingdom, most if not all of them became a threat.

 

[bruceha2000]

Interesting comments by the Dr. on VE

1. The tick needs to be attached for 24-48 hours to transmit the bacteria
2. Some people have the bulls eye rash, some the symptoms, some both.
3. The test will be false until about a month after the transmission has occurred
4. Once you have had Lyme, you will test positive forever even if you were cured and never again infected so no sense testing for a second infection.
5. It can be treated even if undiagnosed for a long time.

So @trumpeting_angel, get DH to a doctor if his symptoms hint strongly of Lyme, especially if you know he has had too much contact with deer ticks.

 

[microchick]

Yep, don't let them fool you. It's everywhere. And if a tick isn't carrying Lyme, they are usually carrying some other disease. They are pure evil and there is a connection between mice/ticks/and Lyme disease as mice are one of the primary feeding sources of newly hatched ticks. Usually the ticks carry the Lyme virus from the mice they feed on.

Now one of the kickers is that there are companion infections that can come in along with the Borrelia burgdorferi bacteria. A lot of the Lyme docs are automatically testing and treating for those also. The doc was beginning to wonder if I was going to have to go on IV antibiotics, which happens a lot, when suddenly the Herxing eased off and I began to feel better. It took a long time though.

The rash is a give away. If you get it you recognize it but not all get it. I did. I had a large donut red ring on my abdomen and a large raised rash area beside it. I also developed a rash on my neck and a bulls eye rash around a tick bite I got 6 months later so yep, two rounds of Lyme disease. Not fun, no sirree. The rash is raised like a big giant hive but doesn't itch. If you run your fingers over it you experience a burning sensation. My husband had a doctors appointment the same day the second bullseye appeared so he took a picture of it and showed it to the doctor. He said the doc just looked at it said, 'yes, that's a bullseye!' asked for my chart and immediately put me back on Minocycline.

I wasn't a happy camper.

Now when I find a tick, I clamp it in a forcep and toast it to a cinder with a lighter. I figure if they can make my life H*** I can send them there free of charge!

 

[ShrekDawg]

Very interesting! I had always thought it was at least 12 hours. And you guys all have me paranoid I have Lyme. Especially with some of my joint stuff haha wonder if the doctor would even test me. Probably not.