Lyme Disease Support Group
Lyme disease is the most common vector-borne disease in the Northern Hemisphere. It is now one of the fastest growing infectious diseases in the U.S. Lyme disease is caused by infection with the Borrelia burgdorferi bacteria, and is primarily transmitted to humans as well as dogs, horses and other domesticated animals by the bite of infected ticks.
"Lyme disease is the most commonly reported vectorborne illness in the United States--in 2011, it was the 6th most common Nationally Notifiable disease. However this disease does not occur nationwide and is concentrated heavily in the northeast and upper Midwest."
http://www.cdc.gov/lyme/stats/
http://www.cdc.gov/lyme/stats/
Because the IDSA (Infectious Disease Society of America) has written a 'guidelines' that almost all doctors will follow blindly or might follow because they fear becoming ostracized by other doctors or even investigated, maybe losing their license, because they 'treated excessively' for what the IDSA calls a disease that's 'hard to get, easy to cure'!!! ARGHHH!
They rx 10-30 day of doxycycline for an illness that may take many months and years of treatment to ever get back to near normal.
If you live in CT then there will be many support groups (on line or in person) that you should be able to contact and find a doctor that will tx Lyme.
go to that site. it is a really good listing for support groups. THAT is where you will find a good doctor.
One of the things that floored me in the documentary "Under Our Skin" was the doctor that found LD in 70% of the samples he took from the bodies of people who had died of Alzheimers disease.
I say this with respect and a bit of humor:
You're preaching to the choir. (grin)
Go to www.ilads.org
Their contact information is on the bottom of the home page. Call them and they will help you find an LLMD.
Cookiebear
But, by all that's holy, I DO wish they would stop putting out pictures of a bright red bulls-eye rash!!! That one was obviously photoshopped and looked exactly like the target on an archery range!!
Then, next to that was a picture of a person with his face completely lop-sided! Bells Palsy to the Nth degree!! The third picture was of a terribly swollen knee!!!
Yes, those things do occur to some people. But an unknowing MD would look for those in his patient. Seeing none, he would send him on his merry way with ---"no, that's not Lyme"!
Sorry for all the exclamation marks, but I don't think they allow cuss words here.
I live in Maine and my mom sent me an article about chronic lyme disease...it's pretty messed up...here it is...
http://www.wcsh6.com/dontmiss/263989/308/The-burden-of-chronic-lyme
When I was bit I was also bit by mosquitos which the next day turned in to that bright red dart board rash. it looked exactly like a target with a ring. So it is true- it can look very bright-mine was, just uncommon.
But the government is also lying about getting it from only a tic. If you look at other countries have proof the Lyme spirochete has been found in mosquitos and on there CDC site or what eveyou call it in their country it clearly says you can get from mosquitos and other bloodsucking insects. It might be more rare but you can.
And when you are bit by a mosquito, most people slap it to squish it on their skin like I did which opens it up and spills out what ever it drank before and can get in your bite!So shew it away instead.
Justt about two years ago I was looking up bees since I moved to the desert and am allergic to them and remebered my rash which at the time my familiy thought it was an allergic reaction to mosquitos if we had known the dart board rash was lyme back then I just think how my life would of been different.
I think how so many others lives would be different if the cdc would stop lying about it is just a tic-borne illness as well and take everyones case seriously tick or no tick- and get propper testing.
take care everyone :-)