News and resources for neurological Lyme disease and co-infections.
It also seems that many attempts to connect the level of pain to the ability to function socially and professionally which is affected by other symptoms of Lyme disease such as fatigue, swollen joints, and dizziness to name a few; where specialists have yet to satisfactorily untangled the symptoms between normal pain and “neuropathic” pain and even “neuropychiatric” pain.
So many blog posts and articles devoted to Lyme disease deal with treatment protocols, personal experience, political debate, medical debate, insurance disputes, and technical discoveries.
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The debate goes around and around about whether or not Lyms disease can be contracted through sexual contact.
The answer according to many medical doctors appears to be, “Yes!” In fact we have come to a morally dubious time where doctors are registering serious ethical charges against fellow MD practitioners who are helping their patients recover from Lyme disease in spite of great personal risk.
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Cruelty dealt by the medical “expert” when a genuinely sick person with chronic Lyme disease and co-infections seek help.
Back in 1985, Dr. Alan MacDonald stunned the medical world with a special slide show on neo-natal tissue that he had amassed over years of autopsying stillborn babies as the pathologist at South Hampton Hospital. Using a darkfield microscope technique to capture the images on film, Dr. MacDonald presented his shocking hypothesis to the world in Vienna at the Second International Symposium on Lyme Disease and Related Disorders.
The major media outlets are coming around to the rising epidemic of chronic Lyme disease thanks to the successful promotion of Under Our Skin.ABC has just given a three page story today called “Mis-Diagnosis: Lyme Disease Dangers” allowing for the possibility of chronic Lyme disease, and the possibility of those who are sick with chronic Lyme disease needing more antibiotics. Read the full story here.
Those of us with chronic Lyme have been forced to educate ourselves, and find each other for support and encouragement. And we usually find each other through support groups or internet forums, but always based on the terrible pain and various symptoms, even though many never receive a clinical diagnosis of Lyme. Do we feel crazy? It is hard not to when the conventional medical world call us delusional. Well, they can’t deny the severity of our condition for much longer thanks to two significant events
The film, “Under Our Skin” continues to get people talking about Lyme disease, and in some cases, taking action. Andy Abrahams Wilson, Producer, Director and Cameraman for the film, has managed to get the film to be presented to members of congress. Already there is talk of public hearings regarding pending legislation.
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- Viral Genetics, Inc. (OTC:VRAL), a biotechnology company that discovers and develops immune-based therapies, today unveiled to the general public initial findings of its ongoing Lyme Disease study.
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