Lyme: A Disease Tsunami According To Dr. Joseph Jemsek In “The Power Of Truth”
Recently, Tina Garcia, the founder of a public charity called Lyme Education Awareness Program (also known as L.E.A.P. Arizona), interviewed Dr. Joseph G. Jemsek, and wrote a two part article called, “The Power of Truth.”
With so much mis-information and wild speculation, it is imperative to read this medical article by a practicing, licensed medical doctor – if only to feel some support for those of us who have had our sanity questioned when sharing our dreaded diagnosis: “Lyme Disease.”
First, a distinction must be made between those who are infected with Lyme disease and treated properly (prompt and aggressive antibiotics), and those of us with “Chronic Lyme Disease” – defined by most as having symptoms for over one year – or “Neurological Lyme Disease” – defined as having a Lyme infection in the central nervous system.
Unfortunately the former quickly falls into the latter which is why so many of us continue to speak out in spite of ridicule or even hostile opposition.
When you are diagnosed with AIDS, the community wraps you with compassion and care.
When you are diagnosed with Lyme, the community questions your sanity and avoids you like the plague. [NOTE: I have been blessed with compassion and care in spite of five grueling years of disability and decades of prior "mystery" ailments, operations and emotional fragility. But most are not blessed as I have been.]
Please read the following interview by Tina Garcia.
The Power of Truth, Part One and Two
Many thanks to Ms. Garcia!
Tina’s organization, L.E.A.P. provides education to the public about tick-borne diseases and financial assistance to patients for treatment of their choice and necessities of life. The demand for financial assistance is overwhelming and difficult to keep up with. L.E.A.P. gratefully welcomes all private tax-deductible donations to further efforts aimed at helping patients obtain the treatment they so desperately need.
To make a donation or view L.E.A.P’s website, click here.
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July 25th, 2009 at 11:40 pm
I am a patient of Dr. Jemsek’s and he is a brilliant physician. He knows lyme disease inside and out and that convention lyme treatment does not work. What you wrote about those with aids compared to those with lyme is so true. We lymies need to hang in there and support one another because many of us don’t get support elsewhere. Thank you for your blog and all your updates on lyme.
July 28th, 2009 at 10:50 am
AIDS what can I say this is one of the deadliest diseases in the entire world affecting more then 1/6th the worlds population infecting our homes and our children we need to act now in finding a cure and stoping this illness. We need to practice not only safe sex but more importantly abstince if practicing no sex till marriage this disease would have been preventable now it is too late and it is up to doctors and future generations God help us all if it be your will…
July 31st, 2009 at 2:47 pm
Great post it is so informative thanks for sharing the helpful information.
August 4th, 2009 at 9:57 pm
I AGREE WITH PREVIOUS POSTER.
March 26th, 2010 at 6:12 am
Great article, I drop by often to check the updates and comments.
June 2nd, 2010 at 11:34 am
wauw, I did not know that people suffering from lime were expelled like that…
April 1st, 2011 at 10:17 am
This kind of charity is excellent! These are people who really need expertise and help! Great initiative!
November 19th, 2011 at 10:24 pm
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December 19th, 2011 at 6:06 am
After a relative has been under Jemsek’s care for over a year now, he is now in his final stages of ALS, not Lyme, as Jemsek so enthusiastically convinced him he had. “It is absolutely NOT ALS”, Jemsek said. He had been treated by another ‘lyme-literate’ doctor for 6+ months prior, with no improvement. Jemsek’s false assurances made my relatives last year even worse, driving 17 hours to DC at least every 5-6 weeks, buying Jemsek’s magical potion of “HOPE”. “Remarkable improvement” he would write in his report as each month he was getting worse and worse. Yes, I believe there is corruption with in the CDC, but I also believe there is corruption among these ‘lyme-literate’ doctors as well. For those of you that believe you have lyme… get every test available and understand them. If the LL Dr hasn’t improved your symptoms within a few months, go to a REAL Dr, don’t let them take what’s left of your life away.
January 3rd, 2012 at 2:39 pm
Thank you Jennifer! You are SO right on, and I am SO sorry for your relative! The “REAL” doctor is very debatable…not just in the Lyme debate but doctors are humans and humans make mistakes. I would be willing to bet that many thousands of people have been misdiagnosed with ALS or MS or some other ailment when they have Lyme than the other way around, but it is a tragedy either way. Dr. Jemsek is a real doctor.