News and resources for neurological Lyme disease and co-infections.
Lyme, as we know, is transmitted by ticks. When it moves through the tick, it is coated with a tick salivary protein known as Salp15. The Yale team injected Salp15 into healthy mice and found that it significantly protected the mice from getting Lyme disease. When combined with outer surface proteins of B. burgdorferi, the protection was even greater.
Most of us are so focused on our own unique Lyme; the swollen joints, the mental confusion (Lyme Fog) and every kind of pain that can be imagined. But try, if you can, to watch your child go from a happy youth who fits in where ever he or she goes, to a virtual stranger - depressed, crying all the time…I have been there and would definitely take the pain away from my child than to watch he or she suffer.
I have seen far too many desperate people with Lyme trying the “latest” and disappointed by the lack of response and worse–permanently harmed by it.
Plus - “prominent calcification of the invertebral cranial artery”. My next “event” is expected to be terminal. (oopsie) Add to that; degenerative disc disease - I am fused L4-S1 w/ fusion of L3-4 pending + C1-4. Fibromyalgia & CFS, Major arthritic changes of every joint viewed so far. Reconstructive surgery to my left shoulder and both wrists. My knees are a wreck; stay swollen to about the size of grapefruits 24/7, swelling to melon size frequently.
It is one thing to lump a couple hundred of sufferers into a group of psychosomatic patients…but how do medical doctors respond to the hundreds of thousands of Lyme sufferers from all 50 states who are becoming more ill and increasingly fragile?
It is time for medical doctors to take their heads out of the sand and re-commit their allegiance to the Hippocratic Oath
According to neuro.psychiatryonline.org, as many as 48% of patients with late-stage neuro-Lyme disease may develop hyperacusis, more commonly known as “tinnitus”.
The symptoms of hyperacusis include continual ringing, buzzing and/or hissing sounds and can cause intense pain and even a post-traumatic stress disorder.
If you haven’t yet had a chance to read Dr. Burrascano’s updated guidelines, stop whatever you are doing and go here to read it: Advanced Topic in Lyme Disease; Diagnostic Hints and Treatment Guidelines for Lyme and Other Tick Borne Illnesses - Sixteenth Edition - Copyright October, 2008 by Dr Joseph Burrascano.
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The following thought-provoking information has been generously given by Geraldine, a chronic Lyme sufferer.
Geraldine owned a massage school “BL” (before Lyme) 15 years ago, and has researched many aspects of coping with Lyme and the parasites and co-infections that are so common with chronic Lyme sufferers. I have added some links and further references [...]
The Lyme disease spirochete is far more virulent than syphilis. We don’t know the end yet. And [we] can’t even make a [blood] smear with Borrelia burgdorferi and see the organism. It’s there. But you don’t see it. You cannot find this spirochete. Why not? After all, I have a sick person here. He is trembling all over. His spinal fluid is full of spirochetes. But when it comes to blood, it’s not there. So there is something associated with this organism that makes it different.
