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I would greatly appreciate it if you could find the name of that medication. My sister has Lyme Disease and is still suffering health effects from it despite various treatments.

Most non-Lyme Literate Medical doctors prescribe Doxycyclin. If you are seeing a Lyme Literate Medical doctor they'll put you on a cocktail (often Clarithromycin, Doxy, Alinia (anti-parasitic), and a few others. This also depends if you have co-infections or not.

There is no formal certification process for "Lyme Literate Medical Doctors". Many are quacks who don't follow evidence based medicine guidelines.

https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/florida-revokes-medical-lic...

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I was bit by a tick and I got sick. No doctor could figure out what was wrong. I tested negative for Lyme. I took antibiotics (Biaxin) and 3 months later I was fine. I stopped taking antibiotics. Within 2 months I was sick again. I took Biaxin for 6 months. I felt great. I stopped antibiotics. Within 2 months I was sick again. I took Biaxin for a year. I felt great. I stopped taking antibiotics. Within 2 months I was…

This is amazing.

Have you followed up with any of the doctors since? What did they say in response to your recovery?

Re: Lyme Disease Cases Are Exploding

#103
post #51

I've got ticks a few times a year just running in the woods (the last one was Saturday). During holidays in the Pyrenees with my family, we had to scan our bodies for ticks every day, and every day we found several -- up to a dozen -- on each of us. Now the article is very light on the main question: why did ticks multiply that much recently?

Well, what eats ticks?

"Bird populations in steep decline in North America, study finds"

> North America has more than a billion fewer birds than it did 40 years ago

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/technology/science/report-fi...

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#104
post #46

I was bitten by little nymph/larval (not sure which) ticks on Bay Trail in Mountain View, CA. Had to stop riding my bicycle there (which I absolutely loved) because I just can't afford to be debilitated by Lyme's disease. I've become violently genocidal towards these little bloodsuckers. If it was up to me, I'd wipe them out with almost any means, and at whatever cost ;-) After looking into the anti-tick options I ac…

FWIW, lyme disease is exceedingly rare on the west coast..

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Re: Lyme Disease Cases Are Exploding

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I was bit by a tick and I got sick. No doctor could figure out what was wrong. I tested negative for Lyme. I took antibiotics (Biaxin) and 3 months later I was fine. I stopped taking antibiotics. Within 2 months I was sick again. I took Biaxin for 6 months. I felt great. I stopped antibiotics. Within 2 months I was sick again. I took Biaxin for a year. I felt great. I stopped taking antibiotics. Within 2 months I was…

Now I'm no medical expert but antibiotics resolve an infection after a certain amount of time. Even for Lyme and leprosy. There may be health after-effects but those would not be resolved by antibiotics since the infection is gone. What could possibly outlast 20 years of continuous antibiotics that isn't either completely killed or mutates and renders the antibiotics ineffective? And then be resolved with a fast?

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#107
post #43

My father nearly died of [what we believe to be] Lyme disease. A few years ago he started getting awful bouts of pain all over his body. He couldn't eat, was losing weight, was losing muscle mass fast. It got the the point where he was using a walker (he was less than 60 years old at the time) and could barely lift a 5 pound weight. He went to a bunch of different doctors, had all kinds of scans run, and only kept ge…

I would greatly appreciate it if you could find the name of that medication. My sister has Lyme Disease and is still suffering health effects from it despite various treatments.

Then you really need to consider that it's probably not as simple as "she has x disease and needs the right antibiotic."

My best understanding: parasitic infections tend to thrive due to feeding on detritus from other infections and persistent infection in spite of multiple treatments probably means she's being reinfected on a regular basis.

My chronic infections did not begin to improve until I informed my then spouse "You are never touching me again without a condom because I think you are reinfecting me." following a conversation with a friend who was a physician. He had minored in parasitology and I believed I had an undiagnosed parasitic infection. He said it was plausible, given what I was going through.

That was a major turning point in my health. After nearly a year of being at death's door, the very next round of antibiotics stabilized me and I began gradually getting better.

Prior to that, I went through two periods a few months apart of needing new antibiotics every single time I ran out for 10 or 12 weeks. Nothing was really working.

The months in between? I was bedridden, sleeping 18 to 20 hours a day and probably having a lot less sex than usual. (But I honestly just don't remember how often I was having sex during that awful, awful time. I mostly remember hallucinating conversations with The Grim Reaper.)

(Disclaimer: This is not medical advice. I am not a doctor. I don't play one on TV.)

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#108
post #4

I've recently gotten into backpacking and learned that the most effective way of dealing with mosquitoes and ticks in nature is Permetherin. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permethrin . It is intended for clothing and not the skin. The best way to apply it is to soak your clothes and let it dry. Spray on applicators are also available. Once it is dry, it is very stable and safe. It does breakdown with UV and washes, so…

Ticks can drop out of trees on your head, or attach to your hair when your head brushes past some leaves on a tree. Also, if your bare skin is not covered in insect repellent, that could also be a route that they get to the rest of your body. The most effective method of not getting bitten is not to go in to the woods at all.

The most effective method of not getting bitten is not to go in to the woods at all.

Agreed. I'm not worried about ticks since I only go between work and my mom's basement.

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#109
post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I would greatly appreciate it if you could find the name of that medication. My sister has Lyme Disease and is still suffering health effects from it despite various treatments.

Then you really need to consider that it's probably not as simple as "she has x disease and needs the right antibiotic." My best understanding: parasitic infections tend to thrive due to feeding on detritus from other infections and persistent infection in spite of multiple treatments probably means she's being reinfected on a regular basis. My chronic infections did not begin to improve until I informed my then spou…

So was your spouse reinfecting you?

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#110
post #46

I was bitten by little nymph/larval (not sure which) ticks on Bay Trail in Mountain View, CA. Had to stop riding my bicycle there (which I absolutely loved) because I just can't afford to be debilitated by Lyme's disease. I've become violently genocidal towards these little bloodsuckers. If it was up to me, I'd wipe them out with almost any means, and at whatever cost ;-) After looking into the anti-tick options I ac…

FWIW, lyme disease is exceedingly rare on the west coast..

Yes, but there are other infectious diseases spread by ticks. And most importantly, I really don't want to be one of the unlucky few!

https://www.cdc.gov/lyme/datasurveillance/index.html

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