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<blockquote data-quote="Josie" data-source="post: 186729" data-attributes="member: 1792"><p>KJS,</p><p> </p><p>From an out of mainstream Lyme Disease point of view, those symptoms could be Lyme Disease. Doctors/patients who treat Lyme Disease aggressively believe that giving antibiotics causes a die off of Lyme bacteria, making the person feel worse, and causing their Lyme symptoms to increase. Lyme symptoms include body aches, stomach aches, headaches. </p><p> </p><p>Some people on the Lyme board I read went downhill after taking antibiotics and eventually ended up with a Lyme diagnosis.</p><p> </p><p>A regular doctor will most likely dismiss Lyme as a diagnosis unless you are in certain parts of the country. Or they will run a test, but none of the tests are very accurate. The one that is the best is run by a specialty lab and is not the one they will do unless you ask for it. </p><p> </p><p>A mainstream doctor will ridicule the idea of antibiotics causing symptoms from Lyme. There is a huge political controversy about Lyme treatment, with doctors who treat it risking their practice. Patients travel to other states to get treatment. So most doctors have no experience with it. One side believes it is very easy to detect, easily treated, and anything left after a short treatment of antibiotics is too bad. The other side uses long term methods and treats until symptoms are gone. The first side doesn't listen to the other side. The second side relies on clinical experience and doesn't have a lot of published studies and is accused of offering false hope.</p><p> </p><p>You could suggest a Lyme Western blot test from the regular lab to see if it is positive. If it isn't, you might want to consider the specialty lab but it is expensive. Treatment is expensive.</p><p> </p><p>A list of symptoms for Lyme is at <a href="http://www.canlyme.com" target="_blank">www.canlyme.com</a>. Again, this is probably not a mainstream site. I wanted you to know about the 2 sides to the Lyme problem so you could do your own research and not rely only on the doctor. For us, we weren't getting help from the regular doctors and the alternative Lyme sites rang true.</p><p> </p><p>My daughter's complaints were viewed as psychsomatic until we found the Lyme doctor. Maybe I just have false hope because her headaches haven't cleared up, but her anxiety has and she is not taking anything for it. Anxiety, mood disorders, etc. can be Lyme symptoms. Just because a person is anxious doesn't mean there isn't something else wrong with them.</p><p> </p><p>Andy,</p><p> </p><p>Your son's story could also be a Lyme story. My daughter started getting explosive, anxious, OCDish, all at once 4 summers ago, shortly after a tick bite. Then that fall, she had many physical complaints. The doctors couldn't find anything wrong with her so they called it anxiety. I didn't know enough at the time to consider Lyme Disease. Eventually, her headaches were unable to be controlled and we ended up with the Lyme Disease diagnosis 3 years later. </p><p> </p><p>While I think anxiety can cause physical problems, I think doctors are too quick about labeling symptoms anxiety when it might just be something uncommon. My daughter's stomach pain was thought to be anxiety until we discovered it went away if she gave up wheat and milk.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Josie, post: 186729, member: 1792"] KJS, From an out of mainstream Lyme Disease point of view, those symptoms could be Lyme Disease. Doctors/patients who treat Lyme Disease aggressively believe that giving antibiotics causes a die off of Lyme bacteria, making the person feel worse, and causing their Lyme symptoms to increase. Lyme symptoms include body aches, stomach aches, headaches. Some people on the Lyme board I read went downhill after taking antibiotics and eventually ended up with a Lyme diagnosis. A regular doctor will most likely dismiss Lyme as a diagnosis unless you are in certain parts of the country. Or they will run a test, but none of the tests are very accurate. The one that is the best is run by a specialty lab and is not the one they will do unless you ask for it. A mainstream doctor will ridicule the idea of antibiotics causing symptoms from Lyme. There is a huge political controversy about Lyme treatment, with doctors who treat it risking their practice. Patients travel to other states to get treatment. So most doctors have no experience with it. One side believes it is very easy to detect, easily treated, and anything left after a short treatment of antibiotics is too bad. The other side uses long term methods and treats until symptoms are gone. The first side doesn't listen to the other side. The second side relies on clinical experience and doesn't have a lot of published studies and is accused of offering false hope. You could suggest a Lyme Western blot test from the regular lab to see if it is positive. If it isn't, you might want to consider the specialty lab but it is expensive. Treatment is expensive. A list of symptoms for Lyme is at [URL="http://www.canlyme.com"]www.canlyme.com[/URL]. Again, this is probably not a mainstream site. I wanted you to know about the 2 sides to the Lyme problem so you could do your own research and not rely only on the doctor. For us, we weren't getting help from the regular doctors and the alternative Lyme sites rang true. My daughter's complaints were viewed as psychsomatic until we found the Lyme doctor. Maybe I just have false hope because her headaches haven't cleared up, but her anxiety has and she is not taking anything for it. Anxiety, mood disorders, etc. can be Lyme symptoms. Just because a person is anxious doesn't mean there isn't something else wrong with them. Andy, Your son's story could also be a Lyme story. My daughter started getting explosive, anxious, OCDish, all at once 4 summers ago, shortly after a tick bite. Then that fall, she had many physical complaints. The doctors couldn't find anything wrong with her so they called it anxiety. I didn't know enough at the time to consider Lyme Disease. Eventually, her headaches were unable to be controlled and we ended up with the Lyme Disease diagnosis 3 years later. While I think anxiety can cause physical problems, I think doctors are too quick about labeling symptoms anxiety when it might just be something uncommon. My daughter's stomach pain was thought to be anxiety until we discovered it went away if she gave up wheat and milk. [/QUOTE]
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