youtube.com — It is considered to be The Perfect Storm of diseases because once you are infected, it can go undetected to the point that when it is discovered, It's too late. It is a difficult disease for doctors to treat because it is not only a political disease but an economical disease as much as it is a bacterial infection.
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psychopnutApr 16, 2009
great, now i'm scared and sad
sullenbodeApr 17, 2009
"I had no clue that Lymes was so controversial, or that some people don't even believe it exists!"Same here. I got the raised, bullseye rash on my inner thigh in 1992 and was only just hearing about lyme disease then -- didn't know it was a life-long thing as nothing ever came of it (that I noticed). It was the small, square deertick I found there. I think that I've been showing the degenerative symptoms for years, now that I think back. Wonder why it's a controversy now? When I was in college (got the tick then whilst traipsing around in the national forrest) the media was all ablaze about the danger of the deertick. Could it be a drug company conspiracy, after all? Takes years to show bad symptoms. Why sell someone $25 worth of antibiotics for an actual cure when you can sell them $100,000 for 'treatment'?
nifyadontknoMay 1, 2009
Being treated by many Lyme Literate Doctors you tend to catch on to the mainstream myths. Funny you should bring up the CDC, They have done more to prevent treatment than anything, According to them, if you don't have a rash, you don't have the disease. Doctors who are unfamiliar with Lyme Disease follow this. Unfortuneatley it leads to thousands a year not being treated. I'd suggest you go out and watch this film to see more proof. Also having been in treatment for 7 years, you hear too many stories of what does and doesn't work. I have met plenty of people who were given Doxy for 2-4 weeks and relapsed. My lyme doctor tells me always gives an 8 week supply. Any less and your risking your health.
auximenesJun 9, 2009
So the gluten intolerance test you got was a blood test right?
center311Jul 1, 2009
this isn't west nile and swine flu. this is f**king serious. You just wait.
center311Jul 1, 2009
its a very political and complicated situation. you need to know someone who has had it in its advanced stages and then tell them they're crazy.
cleremondAug 25, 2009
I meant to say, "Physically looking at the BACTERIA under a microscope is the ONLY real way to diagnose it"Here is the truth about ELISA and Western Blot testing for Lyme...1. The ELISA screening test is unreliable. The test misses 35% of culture proven Lyme disease (only 65% sensitivity) and is unacceptable as the first step of a two-step screening protocol. By definition, a screening test should have at least 95% sensitivity.2. Of patients with acute culture-proven Lyme disease, 20–30% remain seronegative on serial Western Blot sampling. Antibody titers also appear to decline over time; thus while the Western Blot may remain positive for months, it may not always be sensitive enough to detect chronic infection with the Lyme spirochete. For “epidemiological purposes” the CDC eliminated from the Western Blot analysis the reading of bands 31 and 34. These bands are so specific to Borrelia burgdorferi that they were chosen for vaccine development. Since a vaccine for Lyme disease is currently unavailable, however, a positive 31 or 34 band is highly indicative of Borrelia burgdorferi exposure. Yet these bands are not reported in commercial Lyme tests.3. When used as part of a diagnostic evaluation for Lyme disease, the Western Blot should be performed by a laboratory that reads and reports all of the bands related to Borrelia burgdorferi. Laboratories that use FDA approved kits (for instance, the Mardx Marblot®) are restricted from reporting all of the bands, as they must abide by the rules of the manufacturer. These rules are set up in accordance with the CDCs surveillance criteria and increase the risk of false-negative results. The commercial kits may be useful for surveillance purposes, but they offer too little information to be useful in patient management.4. There are 5 subspecies of Borrelia burgdorferi, over 100 strains in the US, and 300 strains worldwide. This diversity is thought to contribute to the antigenic variability of the spirochete and its ability to evade the immune system and antibiotic therapy, leading to chronic infection.Here's a guy that built his own Dark Field Microscope and found the bacteria in his own blood.<a class="user" href="http://www.lyme-diagnosis.org.uk/" rel="nofollow">http://www.lyme-diagnosis.org.uk/</a>You sound like a f**king Big Pharma plant. You are only reinforcing the CDC's diagnostic criteria which have been demonstrated to be completely flawed. The ILADS criteria are much more thorough and strive to solve the diagnostic issues with regard to Lyme Disease and they are commited to seeing testing become more accurate and reliable. Do the rest of us a favor and f**k off.