FYI: Lyme Disease Information
The Quiet Epidemic (2022) - Official Trailer
Lyme Disease and Chronic Lyme Disease are difficult subjects to navigate. Here are some links that may be helpful if you, a friend, or family member are seeking diagnosis or treatment … or helpful if you may simply be seeking to quickly rule Lyme out, which is a good idea, generally, if you’re consistently feeling poorly.
If you live in the outdoors - particularly in known endemic areas (US New England, for example, or in moist lakeland or coastal marshy areas) - or if you have dogs or cats in the yard, then its advisable to take pains to RULE LYME DISEASE OUT EARLY! The alternative is an accumulation of multiple chronic infections leading to potential auto-immune disorders the magnitude and costs of which are difficult to enumerate or even discuss. Chronic Lyme Disease is a disabling condition, and the confusion among physicians worldwide leads simple, normal acute infections to precipitate to the chronic state simply because of the conflicting information about WHAT TO DO and also because of frequent misdiagnosis.
How bad can it get? Read “Enid’s Story”.
What we call “Lyme Disease” is a spirochetal infection by the bacterium, Borrelea Burgdorferi; however, the tick that infects you may be carrying some of the 18 or so additional known human co-infectious agents - some bacterial, some parasitic, and some viral.
The “ILADS Basics for Providers” might be useful at this point.
SYMPTOMS
Fatigue, brain fog, confusion, sweats, inability to eat meat, etc.
DIAGNOSIS
Many doctors do not understand Lyme Disease and Chronic Lyme disease. They have been miseducated for decades and even punished by medical boards for treating it. The traditional two-tiered blood tests - the ELISA and the Western Blot - have since the NIH and CDC Dearborn Conference of 1993 been hobbled by design and it will be a clever physician who can - or is willing to - interpret the results efficaciously.
Therefore, you are - to a crazy and fearful extent - on your own.
Step 1: Take the MSIDS Questionnaire.
Step 2: Pay out of pocket for the iGeneX blood tests (the standard ELISA and Western Blot tests are designed to fail)
FURTHER LINKS
Movies (How did we get here?):
The Quiet Epidemic (2022)
Under Our Skin (2008)
The Most Influential Books:
Cure Unknown by Pamela Weintraub
Bitten by Kris Newby
Why Can’t I Get Better? (2013) by Richard Horowitz
How Can I Get Better? (2017) by Richard Horowitz
Sources for Locating Lyme-Literate Physicians: