According to a new CDC study, a particular immune system marker may be why some people experience lingering symptoms after being diagnosed with Lyme disease. NBC News’ Dr. Natalie Azar explains what researchers know about the protein interferon alpha and the challenges behind diagnosing Lyme disease.
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It’s nice to see that mainstream Drs are becoming more Lyme literate and finally taking it seriously. They’ve dismissed chronic Lyme and gaslit sufferers for far too long. Better late than never. Now if only they could get informed on the role of environmental toxins in the role of diseases…
is she from grove street?
I recommend reading the book "Chronic" by Dr. Steven Phillips and Dana Parish.
That can occur but only in the first couple of days of infection.
Yeah, I'll get a rash like that once or twice a year from a tick bite, I'm outdoors all the time. But, it'll just go away after two weeks.
I’ve had those large rashes from ticks, 2 times in the past couple yrs…they last for about 6wks and itch horribly..
My 14 year old child was complaining of aches and pains and being tired. her pediatrician told us it was in her head and to take her to a child psychologists. He said I can't find anything wrong with her. Take her to a child psychiatrist. The psychiatrist said I can't find anything wrong with her. Has she been tested for Lyme disease? I said of course we live in Connecticut. Lyme CT is where it gets its name. I pulled her medical records and her Yale grad pediatrician never tested her for Lyme. The psychiatrist recommended a neurologist who took18 vials of blood from this poor kid. He sent 6 to Quest, 6 to Lab Corp and 6 to Stonybrook Hospital on Long Island, NY. Stoneybrook was the only place that had the equipment needed and came back with a positive. Now years later she is experiencing the same symptoms and their telling her she has MS.
I had Lyme disease at 5 years and I ended up being paralyzed. I couldn’t walk, I was taken to the ER and they gave me antibiotics so I was able to walk again! Thank God!!!🙏🏽❤️
Misdiagnosed for 30 years . A slow unforgiving death
My grandson has tested positive for a year. His chronic symptom is daily vomiting multiple times a day. No doctor will link this with Lyme and therefore their only suggestion is anti depressants. They initially gave him one round of antibiotics but he still tests positive and they make no other recommendations. The whole family is frustrated and out of ideas.
What about lemon disease
My father-in-law at the time was diagnosed with Lyme Disease and I saw this brilliant man with an incredible intellect experience such a devastating neurological decline that it left his wife and daughter (my wife) and myself totally dumbfounded.
Try cannabis high dosage and then continue the regimen. I also believe in basil & oregano. Herbs are the healing!
I just spent 3:55 minutes staring at the news lady’s shirt…what are they talking about? 🧐🤔
Early morning tick pictures 😂
Covid-19 bacteria meningitis and Lyme disease oh my.
remember when nobody believed yolanda hadid
Oh so they’re finally agreeing that Chronic Lyme actually DOES EXIST!
It is not tick born, it's rodent born.
She reppin that grove st 😂
It's sad my daughter had that a month of go It's a headache..😢
My sister was misdiagnosed for MONTHS before finally being diagnosed with Lyme. After 2 years of antibiotics it appears the Lyme is eradicated but she has multiple residual symptoms. Not everyone gets the bullseye around the bite.
Because it was created in a lab to do so 🙄
So long term lyme has always been a side effect of doctors' reaction to the disease?
I mean in 2023 if we can vaccinate our pets from contracting this disease why can’t we vaccinate ourselves?!?
🤣"We are on a roll with the early morning rash and the tic pictures. Thanks for hanging in there with us."🤣
Sounds like they mix up two diagnoses which you can get from ticks. Lyme disease can usually be treated with antibiotics, but Tick Borne Encefalitis can't. But there is a vaccine for TBE. Vaccine means you have to vaccinate before you get the disease. I have had 4 shots during 3 years and are now fully vaccinated. I have to get a booster every other year or so. But rather that, than getting really ill. I had to do this because the ticks likes me a lot. Often when I have been gardening I find a tick or two on my body.
i wonder if this could help those who suffer from Alpha Gal Syndrom from a tick bite
Ok so I had zero symptoms initially, was given an antibiotic…12 years later…I suddenly developed symptoms. I was told this was normal that it goes "dormant" and can resurface many yrs later, with diff. Symptoms. Food intolerances especially to starched & yeast was the only symptoms I experienced those 12 yrs later…and the antibiotic didn't do anything for it. So I was just old to avoid those foods. This broadcast did a very poor job of explaining that.
Ticks LOVE YT ppl 😂
Thank you so much! I have suffered from chronic lyme after being diagnosed 2 years after symptoms started. I have been on about 30 antibiotics and I'm still not better…
I had chronic Lyme Disease for 4 years. Every few months I had flu symptoms and the pain would settle in a different joint. American doctors and insurance companies WILL NOT recongnize chronic Lyme disease, as the insurance companies do not want to be liable for paying for it. I was on a waiting list for 2 years to see a specialist at Tufts. My doctor refused to give me more antibiotics. The only time to truly test for Lyme disease is in the middle of the night, as that is when it is most active in your blood. All other tests come out negative for Lyme. I did all of my research in Europe. In the meantime, I started taking oregano pills (a natural antibotic). I took 9 per day for the first few days and then gradually went down to 2 a day. I took them for about a year, and It finally went away.
I had an ex who had Lyme. No one supported her or believed her. She was always dizzy, had migraines and just other bad symptoms.
When ppl first complained to doctors about what is now known as Lyme disease they were told their symptoms were psychosomatic, essentially that is all in their head. It took decades before the CDC actually accepted it as a real illness. This drove a lot of people to not talk about having symptoms or go to the doctor because you were immediately labeled as crazy. This has also happened with other diseases, like Morgellans, which in 2009 was finally considered a real medical illness. Prior to the CDC accepting an illness as real, no one is studying it or taking it serious in terms of treatments or cures, so having the CDC recognize an illness is pivotal to the lives of those suffering with these unknown illnesses.
So thankful I knew what I was looking at when I was younger when I got the rash. Got treated quickly and never had any problems. But I spend a lot of time outdoors and I warn other people all the time.
Did you know it was created in a military lab. Yup, just another bio weapon released ages ago .
Rip Jeffrey Vandergrift 🙏
FINALLY they're taking chronic Lyme seriously
I had something on my mid leftside back and couldn't figure out what it was ,so I just grabbed it with fingers and jerked it off and it was a dead blood filled tick. I still don't know if I ever got the head but it felt like a little hole for a while .It's been close to a year and I've never had a problem. I'm 63 and still pump iron and have never felt any of the side effects they say that you get. I don't even think about it anymore.
Oh my poor Dad… He's been dealing with it since 2007
Thank you for reporting this news. We need to train more doctors to take this more seriously. It took months to find a doctor to treat me and then it took 6 months to cure me. Lyme disease Can impact someone daily lives in the worst ways.I don't wish it on anyone.
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