Lyme disease debate: “No silver bullet” for confounding ailment
The Independent (Wakefield, Rhode Island) August 24, 2017:
by James Bessette
Editor’s note: This is the first installment in a three-part series exploring the debate over Lyme disease diagnosis and treatment, and how it has affected Rhode Island.
North Kingstown resident Joe Russo used to be a healthy, active man.
Along with providing for himself through full-time employment, Russo was an avid hunter, always searching for game during his downtime. He also rode bicycles up and down his neighborhood.
Then, more than a decade ago, things began to change. He continued his normal daily routine but had “weird symptoms that would come and go, or just didn’t feel right.” He would seek medical treatment to find out what was wrong, but the doctors only said he was either anxious, depressed or had allergies.
…As the years passed, Russo did not get better. He sought testing for “everything under the sun” – cancer and heart issues, among others – to get an answer for why his condition was deteriorating. However, the doctors at the time failed to test for another possibility – Lyme disease. READ MORE.
I’m just a lay person, no medical degree of any sort but i do have Chronic Lyme Disease Complex with Babesia, Bartonella, Mycoplasma fermentans, Mycoplasma pneumoniae, Chladmydia pneumoniae, Q-fever, Parvovirus B19, Chronic Epstein Barr, Candida, Mold and Heavy Metal Toxicity, just to mention a few, and that’s just the tip of the iceberg. From the extensive research I’ve done, and from the doctors I’ve seen, even the so-called Lyme Literate ones, no one’s been able to help me. I just continue to get worse. My life is barely an existence. I’m hardly even going to doctors anymore because anyone who doesn’t know about Lyme, which is about 99% of the doctors around where I live in SW FL, are so disrespectful and rude that it’s a waste of time. I also avoid the ER at all costs, as I would prefer to just die at home in my loving husband’s arms than subject myself to the heartless and cruel staff there. And I’ve avoid being admitted at all costs. I’ve tried everything from prescription meds to herbal supplements to HBOT, nothing works, sorry to say. When is Lyme going to be taken seriously? It really is a pandemic that the government choses to ignore. How very evil.