Rolling Stone: Inside America’s mysterious Lyme disease epidemic
Rolling Stone magazine, June 20, 2017:
by Winona Dimeo-Ediger
In 2004, Kelly Osbourne was bitten by a tick. Her dad burned it off with a match and that, she thought, was the end of that.
But in the years that followed, she suffered from persistent body aches, headaches, stomach pain and trouble sleeping. In 2013, she had a seizure on the set of her show, Fashion Police. As her symptoms piled up, so did the prescriptions: Ambien, Trazodone, anti-seizure medications, even painkillers, despite her past addiction issues.
…As a last resort, Osbourne consulted an alternative medicine practitioner and asked to be tested for Lyme disease. The test came back positive: she had stage III neurological Lyme. READ MORE.
I was given the lyme disease vaccinnation about 20 or so years ago.it was a series of 3 shots over a period of a year or so.I received the first two shots and when i went back for the third i was told they are no longer giving the shots.Does anyone have any information on thesr shots and why they stopped giving them.Seemed like not long after i started to get symptoms of lyme disease.20 years later being treated for fibro and arthritis.i have been tested for lyme a few times and it always comes back negative.was thinking about getting the dna test done but it is 150 dollars.has anyone else gotten the vaccine and come down with these same symptons.does anyone know what was in the vaccine and why they stopped giving it.
The vaccine was pulled off the market for a variety of reasons, including the fact that some people claimed the vaccine gave them the disease, which brought the threat of lawsuits. If you want to pursue the possibility that Lyme and other tick-borne diseases might be behind your symptoms, suggest you read “Why Can’t I Get Better?” by Dr. Richard Horowitz. I also recommend you be evaluated by an ILADS-affiliated physician.–DKL
Thank you
Rich Staley– you are one of many who contracted the disease from the Lymerix vaccine, the vaccine was pulled for this reason. The vaccine contained the OSPA of the borrellia burgderfori, causng the recipients to contract lyme disease. Please see fb page Lyme Crymes. The CDC wants to introduce another vaccine even though it is impossible to “vaccinate” against all the pathogens in lyme disease.