Lyme

Lyme Disease, Do You Have It?

Even though there is plenty of research and documentation, Lyme disease symptoms are so varied and challenging for the medical community to recognize and successfully treat that it has earned the nickname, the great impostor. Lyme, aka Lymes, mimics many other disease symptoms and often eludes the testing available to doctors.

The presentations associated with the Borrelia burgdorferi bactierum can be confused for multiple sclerosis, lupus, fibromyalgia, thyroid disorders (hypothyroidism or hyperthyroidism), chronic fatigue syndrome, viral meningitis, diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, and heart rhythm disorder.

The Bb bacteria is a spirochete that causes physical damage to cell tissues as it burrows, creating biochemical changes to the tissues, before lodging in various organs and joints where it can cause a number of debilitating health issues. One of the most common are arthritis-like symptoms as well as nerve degeneration symptoms when the Bb bacterium lodge in the spine or brain. It is these nervous system complications which are the most serious and the most difficult to treat. Migraines, dizziness, clumsiness, paralysis, and blindness are some of the results of central nervous system damage from Lyme disease.

Lyme Disease Symptoms And Lyme Disease Mimicked Conditions

The 'Bull's Eye Rash' is no longer the signature sign indicating one has contracted Lyme disease. Current research shows some individuals can present symptoms years after exposure and long after any sign of this rash may have appeared.

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Lyme Disease aka The Impostor

For most who are afflicted with Lyme, it is often a bane to ever regaining their full health again. It will strike at anyone, including pets. It was once said that to know disease was to know Syphilis. For health care professionals today, it is Lyme disease.

The epidemiology of this disease is uncovering new information; ticks are not the only vehicle for transmission, the Lyme spirochete can lie dormant for years before launching it's full attack, and the practice of tracking symptoms to diagnosis is very unreliable due to the mimicry skills of Lyme.

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Lyme The Diagnostic Nightmare

In June 2010, Ginger Savely, DNP (Doctor of Nursing Practice) gave a presentation on Lyme disease in Phoenix, AZ to a group predominantly made up of health care professionals.

Dr. Savely is one of the few experts on the front lines for both Lyme and Morgellons disease and she supports the idea there is a Lyme connection with Morgellons. To consider the less known and still widely debated information that Lyme is a genetically engineered organism (In the book 'Lab 257' by G. Enderlein, he suggest that Bb bacterium is an escaped man-made US military bio-warfare organism) combined with the data reported from Dr. Staninger stating the root cause of Morgellons is contamination from advanced nano materials, this makes an interesting case.

Her topic at this presentation targeted the issues of diagnosing this shape shifting disease for the medical community. Doctors and nurses are challenged by the huge numbers of patients afflicted by a range of Lyme disease symptoms that copycat a wide array of chronic conditions.

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Lyme Treatment With Antibiotics

Today, physicians and health care practitioners are left with little choice but to load up the shotgun with up to 5 different antibiotics and start blasting with both barrels in hopes of hitting the spirochete, Bb Borrelia burgdorferi, the bacterium responsible for Lyme disease.

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Read Ramona's recovery story as she shares the details of her more than 4 year battle with Lyme.