COLE COUNTY – Experts from the Infectious Diseases Society of America are debating whether to recognize chronic lyme disease as an official diagnosis. Advocates say this would be an important move because the current treatments don’t completely cure the disease, lead to other illnesses and leaves patients not covered by insurance. Mid-Missouri is home to six of the seven more infectious tick-borne illnesses in existence. Charles Brown, an MU lyme disease researcher, says tick-related illnesses often go undiagnosed. He specializes in the way lyme disease causes arthritis. Brown says in mice, 10 percent of mice end up developing the lyme-related illness. Some patients say there’s a laundry list of other subsequent illnesses caused by lyme disease. Mid-Missouri Tick Illness Coalition director Laurice Stevens says she and her son both have the disease and it has manifested itself in a variety of ways. Stevens says many illnesses like multiple-sclerosis, fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome can all be derivatives of lyme disease. She experiences fatigue and arthritis which she attributes to two previous bouts with lyme disease. Supporters of the chronic lyme disease argument say long-term effects are results of Borrealia burgdorferi, the spiral-shaped bacteria which causes lyme disease. Brown says antibiotics used on lyme disease patients don’t completely wipe out bacteria, but he does not know of any research indicating the disease masquerades as other illnesses …
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There are 150 + symptoms relating to Lyme disease. A person can have one, several, or almost all of these symptoms. Everyone is different in how they are affected by Lyme disease. Not everyone has the “bulls-eye rash.” I have spoken to patients that have devoloped Lyme disease after being bit by mosquitos, gnats, and biting flies. Many videos on youtube have physicians commenting on Lyme disease ……but I feel that the most qualified / accurate information is coming from LYME SPECIALISTS.
Wrote an informative Lyme disease brochure with the help of 2 Lyme specialists. Will email to anyone interested.
I never saw a rash, and many Lymies do not remember being bitten or having a rash so relying solely on a rash is bad medical practice. If you have unexplained arthritis that seems to go from place to place, i.e., one month hips, next month knees, next month back then you should consider Lyme. Along with that I had many other symptoms, one being ringing in the ears for two years and a loud heartbeat off and on in my ears; muscle weakness. unexplained pain under my left breast; no appetite…
The doctor in this video made two big mistakes in my opinion. One is in assuming that if you don’t live in what is considered a “high risk” state you won’t get Lyme, and secondly people who don’t live in high risk states still travel to high risk states. I myself live in a very low risk state in the southwest & was just diagnosed with Lyme disease after 2 years of going to doctor after doctor after doctor. Doctors need to stop focusing on the statistics and start focusing on the symptoms.