- Bush and Lyme by sick from a tick - writer
17 y
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Blog: Lyme Disease
Bush’s treatment was based on a clinical diagnosis from his practioners, as it should be – NOT his blood test results. The rest of us would have had to rely on blood test results produced by junk labs that routinely miss obvious and active lyme.
Health insurance providers and others continue to support and mandate diagnostic tools that don’t accurately detect lyme – even though more accurate and sensitive tools are available. They cover useless treatment plans such as 2 weeks of antibiotics and discriminate against and harass those practioners who know how to improve the health of lyme patients such as lyme-literate and alternative care practioners.
I was sorry to hear President Bush has lyme. As we know, lyme causes thinking problems – even for presidents. I think all consumers should have access to prompt, safe and effective treatment – just like Bush. Too bad greed, ignorance and profit gets in the way of health in ‘American health care’.
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- symptoms of Lyme disease by Liora Leah
17 y
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I have what the docs diagnose as "Multiple chemical sensitivity" "chronic fatigue" and "fibromyalgia" all with overlapping symptoms with each other and with lyme disease. I know that the standard treatment for lyme disease is antibiotics, that I absolutely can not tolerate, so I never bothered with the blood test years ago when I first heard about lyme disease.
about a year ago, an acupuncturist I was working with again mentioned lyme disease, and recommended I be tested for it and that if I had it, he could treat me. I never went about doing it, though, and with your post here it's probable that if I got the standard blood test, then it may not show up as Lyme disease anyway even if I had it.
what do you recommend regarding diagnosis for lyme disease? here you say Pres. Bush was diagnosed by a clinician--how does one tell the difference between this illness and immune system imbalance that I have?
thanks!
Liora
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- Re: symptoms of Lyme disease by Liora Leah
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http://www.lyme.org/otherdis/ld_diagnosis.html
from the Lyme Disease Foundation
"There is no test that can determine if a patient is infected with the LD bacterium and then demonstrate that the patient has become bacterium-free. Therefore, LD is clinical diagnosis, based on signs and symptoms, with the patients travel history to endemic areas and test results being additional pieces of information in the complete picture. No test can "rule-out" Lyme disease."
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