Posted by bleauberry on April 19, 2018, at 12:24:09
In reply to Re: Lyme disease - a neuropsychiatric disease » bleauberry, posted by beckett2 on March 25, 2018, at 20:33:07
WOW! What a story.
The really sad thing here is that Dr #1 was the one who sentenced me to 20+ years of treatment resistant psychiatric illness.
The happy ending is that 20 years later I found Dr #2 and he did his job correctly.
I still battle against chronic Lyme relapses, or maybe new infections, but the psychiatric nightmare is well under control.
It is scary that one wrong decision by one doctor can ruin another human being's entire life, via incompetency. If you ask me, most psychiatrists are incompetent because they know diddly squat about mid stage or late stage lyme, they know diddly squat about diagnostics or recognizing clusters of symptoms, and 9 of 10 lyme patients have psychiatric symptoms! So if any doctors should be experts on Lyme, it should be psychiatrists! But no. They know very little.
> Much of my illness started after childbirth. Shortly thereafter, I tested positive for Hashimoto's thyroiditis which I can only control by keeping my TSH levels around 1. However, I've never regained my health mental and physical :(
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> I haven't tested positive for other immune disorders, and in my case, I think the insult of an emergency c section combined with family history of hypothyroidism, and voilá!
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> While I question the rate at which LAD is implicated in MI, I agree that physical illness and insults can express as MI.
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> Sidenote: Last year I contracted Lyme. Fortunately, I had a bull's eye and received treatment-- I think I'm fine. Because I live somewhere that Lyme is considered 'rare', I was dismissed by the first doc I saw at the walk-in clinic. I went to another and was tested right away. So, yeah, the first doc was able to ignore symptoms because he could only see what he thought he should.
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> With more information, doctors (and researchers)will look at MI differently because they'll expect to see something different. Until then....
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