Lyme Disease Is On The Rise. And It's Bad.
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- Опубліковано 19 тра 2024
- Lyme disease is an infectious disease which is caused by the microorganism Borrelia burgdorferi. Each year, 300000 people US and 85000 people in Europe are affected by Lyme disease. Although Lyme disease can be treated by antibiotics, the infection can be painful. But how does Lyme disease work? And how can we avoid Lyme disease?
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Lyme disease is an infectious disease which is caused by a bacterium called Borrelia burgdorferi and is transmitted through the bite of a tick. When an infected tick bites us, Borrelia burgdorferi released into the bloodstream. Normally, the immune system would prevent Lyme disease by killing Borrelia burgdorferi but the bacterium and the tick release substances to block the immune system. We only find a round rash (Erythema migrans) shortly after being infected with Lyme disease. Lyme disease than causes a variety of symptoms including joint pain or headache. In later stages of Lyme disease, we also might get facial paralysis, sleep disruption and or arthritis. Many Lyme disease patients experience Post-Lyme disease long after antibiotics treatment. It is not clear why Post-Lyme disease occurs but this stage might take a long time and requires further intervention.
Borrelia burgdorferi is also known to potentially damage the brain by causing encephalopathy. There is also a link between Lyme disease infections and Alzheimer's disease.
In the past decades, Lyme disease has spread around the world. To avoid Lyme disease, we should be careful why walking through grassy areas. We also should wear long sleeved clothes in tick habitat, apply insect repellents and check ourselves for ticks. After a Lyme disease vaccine has been made unpopular in the 90s, scientists currently develop new Lyme disease vaccines. Lyme disease vaccines might help to stop Lyme disease.
0:00-1:09 Intro
1:09-3:54 How Does Lyme Disease Work?
3:54-5:48 Post-Lyme Disease Controversy
5:48-6:50 Can WE Prevent Lyme disease?
6:50-8:45 Lyme Disease Vaccines
For your Reading:
Kurokawa, Cheyne, et al. "Interactions between Borrelia burgdorferi and ticks." Nature Reviews Microbiology 18.10 (2020): 587-600.
Miklossy, Judith, et al. "Borrelia burgdorferi persists in the brain in chronic lyme neuroborreliosis and may be associated with Alzheimer disease." Journal of Alzheimer's Disease 6.6 (2004): 639-649.
Ścieszka, J., Dąbek, J., & Cieślik, P. (2015). Post-Lyme disease syndrome. Reumatologia, 53(1), 46.
Stone, B. L., Tourand, Y., & Brissette, C. A. (2017). Brave new worlds: the expanding universe of Lyme disease. Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases, 17(9), 619-629.
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Lyme disease was the first unassisted diagnosis I made an undergraduate student! My best friend was visiting Vermont and sent a picture of his “weird insect bite” that was distinctly bullseye shaped and I immediately recognized it. It was a stroke of luck that I had learned about it just two weeks prior in microbiology and I was able to convince him to go to an urgent care clinic on vacation. Ever since then, I paid a little more attention in my microbiology class haha
Josh Rasco, luckily the bite was in an area that shows the bullseye red ring. If it was on the top of his head under his hair, you may never have know it was there. Spend 2 months, in the field, sleeping under a poncho while leaning up against a tree or under a poncho/shelter half in the rain, snow, heat and see if you notice what you learned in class... You may be too tired to notice. But, thank goodness you helped your friend, where were you when I needed your help? ha,ha..
It was created by our government on Plum Island NY, Ivermectin is supposed to cure it...
I hope you also learned that not all bites start with a ring rash and can be undetectable, yet a person will have symptoms. I hope you also learned that women who present symptoms are not hypochondriacs, malingerers, or fantasizers. I hope you also learned that a person can get Lyme more than once and need to be treated more than once even though insurance refuses to cover more than one treatment. I hope you learned that the bacteria is a spirochete and can do the same things to the human body as syphilis! I hope you understand all of the history and politics of this illness and the fight by patients for proper treatment. A couple of friends in New England have had it, and th ticks are migrating into my part of Ohio. I suggest you look on Amazon for books on Lyme disease-there’s one comprehensive book on all of the ramifications of the illness that’s about 800 pages.
Good luck with your medical career!😊🍀🤞
Good luck how the other work u will be safe for sure
The clinic staff were the ones who diagnosed, but you did identify a key symptom. Medical students I have spoken with were very strictly *against* providing diagnoses and formal medical advice to members of the public, prior to placement and licensing. This is both in the general public interest (sanctioned medical advice) and in the student's interests (malpractice claims).
Im glad you were able to help inform your friend about Lyme disease symptoms, but I've written this comment to dissuade other undergraduate students - or students of any level - from issuing any "unassisted diagnosis" or "official" medical advice. Language and clarity is crucial.
Yes, I was bitten by bloodsucking ticks but they all died from testosterone overdose.
Every pathogen fears the God of war!
funny, all the ticks that bite me are all dried up and dead when i pick them off, too.
That's called toxic masculinity
@@godhateseveryonewhodoesntr5977 that’s called a joke
@@SF-op5ix
I know it was a joke. I made another joke about his joke...
I'm baffeled that this video does not also tell everyone to wear KNEE HIGH RUBBER BOOTS. I live in a remote area and this is our #1 prevention for tick bites. Thanks!
thats... a bit extreme. just wear full length trousers and spray some DEET on.
What we do in CT is wear white socks and tuck our pant legs in.
It doesn't tell anyone to do that because we don't have to dress up like Robocop to avoid tick bites. LMFAO who hurt you
@@SilentKME ticks m8
Where I live in Australia we wear gaiters, it's great for literally everything when it comes to bushwalking.
When I was twelve, I went camping with a friend and he got lyme a few weeks later and couldn't even walk for a few days (he's fine now). My parents panicked and got me tested. Turns out I got infected a few months earlier and all I got were frequent headaches and tiredness. In the end I did't even need antibiotics to recover.
The scary part was, that in both cases, we didn't realize we were infected until the symptoms started. In my friends case, all the doctors knew was that he suddenly couldn't walk anymore and got bad vision.
You're very lucky your body managed to fight off the infection by itself. I knew someone who got chronic lime disease. She had to have a PICC line put in her arm for months and now she's got mast cell activation syndrome, which can't be cured.
@@wickandwax That's the scary part. Lyme is very treatable, if it's discovered early. If there is no indication for an bacterial infection, it can be easily be overlooked. I had a concussion earlier that year so the doctor investigated in that direction first to find the cause of my headaches. I was actually even more lucky to survive that accident so I had to get that infected tick to make up for it.
@@wickandwax Tell your friend to look at Dr. Eric Berg's channel, he has helped my immunity following 50 years of chronic lyme. I wish her well.
Keep and eye out and know possible symptoms. It may hit you again later, as it may just be dormant.
Claritin cures Lyme and all other spirochete based diseases.
My mother always warned me about ticks and lime disease, it's good to finally learn some more about it
Yeah, always wash your limes, sadly, it can contains much more than vitamin C...
@@Herbert2892 gotta always be cautious of the limes
I had Lyme disease back in 2004 and it was really bad…there are times when I think it still affects me, too. I get cluster headaches about once a year ever since as well as this generalized neurological fog that comes on here and there.
Psilocybin mushrooms as well LSD will cure cluster headaches and migraines in a lot of people. You probably wouldn't even need enough to feel the psychedelic effects. I haven't had a migraine in a couple years but I will try next time I do.
@@mr.giggles4995
You know what? They help a LOT. I was really skeptical and reticent (the thought of dealing with a headache of that magnitude on psychedelics is daunting) but they made an enormous difference and have even broken cycles
@@manifestgtr im glad you found something that helps! Cluster headaches sound terrifying. Have you tried any prescription meds and if so how do they compare? I've heard there are side-effects. Up until a couple years I thought I would occasionally get regular headaches, come to find out the are migraines. My left eye will feel like it's being stabbed and going to pop. Apparently that's not a normal headache. I think it's genetic, or something in the water, because multiple family members also get them.
@@mr.giggles4995
Thanks : )
I tell people that the closest analog is an ice-cream headache. It’s kind of like having a “brain freeze” behind one of your eyes but it’s more penetrating and it makes your eye tear up like crazy…almost like a leaky faucet. I’ve never really tried any prescription stuff for it. My GP said that oxygen might work but honestly, I just didn’t wanna go that way. Migraines are brutal, too. My great-uncle used to get them really badly (this was back in the 50s) and apparently he’d have to sit alone in a dark room until it was over. My mom remembers him as being this really great guy but sometimes he’d just have to lock himself away.
@@mr.giggles4995 I have had this same exact issue for months now, as im typing this my left eye has this stabbing pain behind it & the pressure i have in my head has been driving me insane. Any tips? thoughts? appreciate ya.
ps- (is a bed bug a tick?)
I had Lymes from around the time I was 13-14ish(halfway through my eighth grade year all the way up until I was 19. I was misdiagnosed and mistreated, sometimes with no tests even being run to decide that diagnosis, for 5 years by various different doctors and hospitals and was flat-out told to my face that Lymes did not exist in my state. It got to the point where I had the worst case of systemic juvenile RA the Children's Hospital I went to had seen up until that point and I was borderline crippled most days, had zero energy, horrible brain fog, hives, high fevers, headaches near constantly and so on. Virtually all of the symptoms appeared literally overnight. Eventually found a Lymes specialist through a doctor who had been sued for malpractice for treating Lymes in my state because at the time virtually the entire medical field refused to believe it existed in said state. When I finally got on the proper treatment I started feeling better within just a few tweaks of relatively simple antibiotic regimens. Although it took roughly 2 years to get the all-clear it gave me my life back. It's something I wouldn't wish on anyone. I still have residual joining issues and memory fog, especially in the short-term department, but it's absolutely nothing compared to what it was.
What was your treatment? Just antibiotics?
was this state CA?
@@GenMcGrievous CO
Been fighting mine for 6-7 years, still am. Though mine is congenital so it was guaranteed to be difficult to fight in the first place. Plus, like you, I was misdiagnosed a while. Except it only took me a year to reach the near collapsing point because the activation point was food poisoning which damaged my intestines and pushed my stomach further into my ribcage. Thus unable to digest properly and unable to eat enough, my body began eating itself while the Lyme tore my brain, heart, and nerves apart. By the time I got diagnosed and went to a specialist I think I had 1-2 months tops left to live. Took some special repositioning to push my stomach back where it should be, had to do it twice... technically 3 times.
The only thing that I'm aware of that can reach Lyme that's in your brain is Cryptolepis Sanguinolenta Root Extract as it's one of the few anti-bacterial substances your body will allow into your brain. Just an FYI. It's been a godsend in removing brain fog.
Glad you recovered. My friend's daughter went through the same nightmare, being told Lyme doesn't exist in Utah. She is now mentally ill with schizophrenia.
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR COVERING THIS DISEASE!!! I have Lyme Disease
A lot of doctors don't believe in post Lyme symptoms, but THOSE SYMPTOMS EXIST! Whoever is reading this, YES THEY DO.
I have struggled for 13 years since I had my first seizure. I know every disease or syndrome is awful. Lyme is cruel. Even though everyone is different, feel free to ask questions.
I've had it for years too . . . you're not alone!
Wow! You’re so sweet for telling people to ask questions if they need help 🥺🥺 hope for humanity 👏🏽
I had it in 6th grade and still sometimes get the joint pains and im 25 now
Otzi, the 5,000 year old frozen man found in Italy actually had lyme when he died. I always think of those people who "took to their beds" through history, how awful for them. I had 35 years of weird symptoms, fractured sleep, joint replacements, and battling the chronic fatigue before I got my diagnosis. Trust me, if you even think you had a tick bite, get treated. You do not want Post Treatment Lyme Disease Syndrone.
You shouldn't get treatment if you just had a tick bite. You should get treatment only if you get the rash or other symptoms because taking antibiotics too often and too much can cause antibiotic resistance, which means that antibiotics may not work anymore against some illnesses and that's obviously bad because there are times when you actually need them.
Yes. People with this illness were probably accused of laziness or, if female, of some sort of hysteria when they took to their beds. I was told I just had depression for years and battled on trying to live a normal working life. It seems to have permanently destroyed my health and my life.
@@tuha3314 Some people get Lyme and do NOT get the bulls-eye rash. One should get a doxycycline treatment after a tick bite. Better safe than screwing the rest of your life with Lime.
Lyme was created so don’t believe that story of the ice man ,: it’s called Lyme because of where it was found Lyme CT which is close to plum island where it’s most likely originated.. it was said to used over a battle field during war and drop out of a plane so the enemy couldn’t fight
Highly unlikely since the pathogen that causes Lyme disease was discovered by Willy Burgdorfer in the 1950's. He worked on the Plum Island Bio weapon laboratory just a few miles from where the disease was ' discovered ' in the general population. He transferred the pathogen to ticks in an attempt to make a bioweapon . He admitted this on his deathbed.
at the age of twelve, i managed to catch two different variants of lyme disease at once. when i tell you life was a living hell, i mean it. all my symptoms had gone unnoticed till about a month after contracting it and by then, the swelling and pain in my knees was so immense i couldn't function. being a kid, and it being summer my mother was worried why i wasn't playing outside. i complained about my symptoms, and my mother brought me to hospital. it took 10 weeks of antibiotics for my symptoms to clear up, and even longer for me to be finished with them because of just how bad i had lyme disease.
I was recently treated for Lyme. Come to find out, I had it for years. I quit drinking and smoking years ago and thought my health would improve. Although it did in many ways, I still felt awful. I am now about three months post treatment and I feel like a different person. It is amazing and scary what the body will get used to. Also, I had to see a naturopathic doctor to be treated and given the correct antibiotics. My regular physician did not take me seriously.
why didn't you see a different, licensed physician?
Just curious what antibiotics did they prescribe you?
@@djjinerson Doxycycline and Rifampin. It has been a while so I do not remember the exact course. I believe it was Doxy for the first two weeks/ twice daily then the Rif for the remaining month (also 2x daily)... 60 capsules each. There was crossover between the two. It was intense but it worked
@@artapothecary53 really appreciate your response thank you 🙏
How long after the initial infection did you get treated?
I had a childhood friend who ended up becoming permanently paralyzed from the waist down because of Lyme, its no joke.
That’s horrific!
@@lauraarcher1730 truly! she was the most adventurous, hyperactive kid out of all of my little friends at the time, so it was absolutely heartbreaking to see. she's doing really well now and makes the best of her situation. she plays basketball from her wheelchair if you can believe it!
@@xBdoN187x I wish I knew, I'm not even sure she has definitive answers! I know she was misdiagnosed with RSD/CRPS for a while after a back injury at 10 yrs old, so that prevented proper treatment for quite a long time. I believe the prevailing theory is that the undiagnosed lyme turned what would have been a minor back injury into a life long disability. It kept getting worse overtime and a year or two after the injury she became fully wheelchair bound
My friend had a neurological form. Spent a month in hospital on iv antibiotics. The doctor told him to consider himself cured for now, although future may prove otherwise. Turned out, he really did recover OK.
Thank you for really doing your research and pointing out the truth, and not stating the false common assumptions about it. I had a bullseye-rash bit in 2003 and have struggled with it since, gradually getting worse. I was a healthy active adult and it has destroyed my life as I knew it. Antibiotic treatment did not work for me, even after three tries. I do know people who have died from it and people who have it or their family members have had it.
Anyhow, thank you. Good job.
Phage therapy, please read about it
Have you tried intermittent fasting?
Stem cell therapy
Look for the Cowden protocol. It helped me get back to normal. Then I was bit by another tick and I am back suffering again.
Just wanted to clear up that the percentage of those who get a bullseye rash is much closer to 30%, which is why so many people can go for years, even decades, experiencing strange symptoms here and there-until the immune system is suppressed for one reason or another, and at this point late stage Lyme disease and the coinfectious diseases have multiplied so much and the disease group becomes so severe. I speak from experience.
There are multiple other things I feel I should correct about this video, but instead I’ll applaud you for covering the topic to begin with.
I had Lyme and anaplasmosis at the same time last summer, and never developed a rash. My body ached like I had the flu, my neck and the back of my head were all tensed up, and I had night sweats. After taking my temperature and seeing I had a fever, I went to an urgent care and got tested for Flu and Covid. I was still feverish and aching a week later, so went back and got tested for tick borne diseases. If you have flu-like symptoms, get checked out!
That's what I had. Spent a week at 102.9F fever, got antibiotics and ended up in the ER when my reaction caused me to spike to 104F.
It hurt and there was no relief from the fever. Definitely a horrible experience.
How long after the flu were you diagnosed with lyme? What test?
I acquired lymes in Aug of this year, along with both my dogs. I was really hating life and cursing God. Horrible disease. I had to use a walker for 3 weeks. I lived alone, had no help. After 2 courses of antibiotics the pain and neuropathy disappeared for most part. I still have severe muscle weakness in the leg that was bit. And sometimes I still feel like I have bugs swarming in my muscles. Worst part, my head hasn't quit hurting in 3 months and my ears ring non stop. I hate it. Came to Idaho to visit my son, no Drs here know what to do with me. It's frustrating.
My ex mother in law got lyme disease on a trip to Washington she was a healthy older woman but after the tick was stuck on her lower back and it was exposed to late and now she's in a wheelchair and has joint pain and her mind is not the same. 😔 poor Mary what a horrible disease!😱
Is there anything they can do to help her ?
DC or state? Washington state has only 0-7 cases per year so that's really scary!
@@OGAngie ijjjj
When I had Lyme Diease, I was put in the hospital. I had a very high heart rate, very bad headaches, a rash all over my body which originally made the doctor's think I had Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, and jaundice skin. Needless to say, my experience with Lyme Disease was far different that what I hear normally. I still experience chronic symptoms as well, many years after.
I had a teacher who has Lyme disease.. i was surprised, because he seemed healthy, to me at least. But he said it caused him tiredness and pain
fantastic video! thank you! i once carried a tick on the back of my head for more than two years. it was still alive when I finally figured out that, "no, that thing back there probably isn't just a skin tag". now more than 30 years later, it's really quite tricky to investigate causality with regard to my unique constellation of autoimmune disorders.
That’s an insane story but yes the symptoms don’t seem to match or match with other things and doctors just throw their hands up and basically say “ your messed up” cuz if you don’t test positive according to the IDSA rules for Lyme they say you don’t have it which is bogus! Those tests are old and outdated and garbage .. it’s a real criminal thing that’s happening and what they are doing to people.. have to have 3 bands minimum to be positive and have to have over a 90 to be considered positive on a western blot.. so if your 90 neither negative nor positive then they just cut you lose .. when you shouldn’t have any bands or be even at a 90..I’ve had 1 band active and a equivocal western blot and they don’t consider that Lyme but I have every symptom .. another big thing is biotoxin illness which is wrapped up on this blanket of symptoms .. Lyme and mold i Believe are the underpinnings to most disease .. cancer has even been linked to fungal
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Wow! I didn’t know they could live that long attached!
I just stratched my entire head. One time as a kid, I ran through the trees while playing and later I was watching TV for a while. My head felt kinda itchy so I kinda tussle my head and like an egg fell out and a bug hatched right after
I have nurses in my family, both work in Maternity sections of Hospitals and they are seeing
a big increase in the number of
Teen moms with STDs.
One was a 19 year old and this was her 4th pregnancy.
She tested positive for Syphilis!
Another cousin said she had a
22 year old man with late stage
Syphilis and his Brain was now infected.
They test and have found just about every STD that their is, all in teens or early 20s. All races also.
Abstinence Only does Not Protect our youth.
Hope to see a future video on
Syphilis making a return and how important it is to give prevention Information to teens and college aged adults.
Thank you! 😃👆🌟🌟🍀🍀♥️🇺🇸
Why abstinence does not help !!?
Because it's not actually teaching the kids in those classes anything. Not about the dangers they can encounter, not about how to be safe, not about the steps they can take if something does happen.
Off-topic. This is about Lyme disease
These kids are most likely just promiscuous and don’t pay attention to sex Ed. Teenagers don’t have the maturity of making responsible choices.
@@ironfistarrival
Teens? Get real!
One thing with post-lyme disease is that it could be due to a coinfection like Bartonella spp. (often cat's scratch disease) or Barbesia which of course, do not show up in a lyme-test.
Some neuropsychiatric diseases like schizophrenia or some types of depression have been shown to strongly correlate with former cat ownership, cat scratches, cat bites as well as positive Bartonella-PCR in blood and a weaker correlation with Borrelia (lyme) and toxoplasmosis (another cat borne disease). In people with lyme-disease symptoms, who test negative for lyme, testing for Bartonella or Barbesia should be performed too, even though it is still a controversy whether or not Bartonella can be transmited through ticks. However, testing for Bartonella is even worse than for lyme disease in terms of how accurate it might be. While doxycycline can help in Bartonella (or Brucella) infections, you usually require more than one antibiotic because otherwise relapses tend to occur quite frequently. Just like with lyme disease or Covid, there might be some genetic variations making certain people more prone to it and your gut microbiome does have a huge influence on the outcome or the symptoms as well.
as someone who lives in a very woodsy area, ticks and lyme disease are always on my mind. thanks for the informative video
"My friend is a over the road trucker, on one of the delivery trips he had stopped to take one of his mandatory breaks, and was playing with his dog. At some point after that stop he noticed the characteristic red bulls eye mark. He made an emergency trip home which he was in one state over from home. He did his treatment and has been doing well ever since."
Smart, can u explain what his emergency treatment was?
@@prettyboishah2898 "He came back home and went to Urgent Care, The physician prescribed him some antibiotics, I do not know what type of antibiotics he was given. After his treatment he experienced fatigue and clouded thinking. Although I assume that those post treatment symptoms cleared up. "
I never heard about that lyme disease vaccine! We should bring it up again.
I'd like to get that vaccine. I've witnessed someone close go through the neurological/mental symptoms of Lyme's for weeks before we found a doctor who tested and treated her. It was the scariest thing and they never fully recovered.
There was a vaccine but it was a huge failure, killing and maiming many people. What they've put into vaccine was outer surface protein mold that borrelias make. Insane...
Another vaccine lol
No vaccines. Lymes disease is a bio weapon created off of Plum Island. They use the tics as vectors. Then they create vaccines that cause other long term damage and risks for cancer and other issues that require more medications. It’s all about money.
and, everyone who has had Lyme disease says, please dear God do not bring it back. Many people have suffered needlessly because doctors said oh you got the vaccine. You don't need to be treated for that tick bite. Then those people ended up seriously sick from Babesia or Bartonella or a whole host of bacteria, viruses and parasites that ticks can transmit.
Very helpful information. Had untreated Lyme for several months. Two heart procedures later, I'm still not well. Never knew I had a tick bite, and rash presented in unusual manner. Education is key, and that includes among physicians. Lucky to have a good doc who caught mine on a routine physical seven months after I was infected. Well presented, and especially appreciated the info re vaccines.
Got it when I was 12, spent my childhood in the woods. After a month+ of swollen elbows and knees, then eventually walking around with t-rex arms, hospital said full body infection. Less than a week later, they re-diagnosed as Lyme, although never a bullseye found. Just gave me a pill, worked like a charm, been fine since.. I think.
I'm from Connecticut. Back in the 80s I got a deer tick behind my ear. Lyme disease was only affecting us back then. I tested negative, but they gave me treatment just in case it was a false negative. Many people I grew up with and are friends with have gotten the disease. It's terrible it spread from where I'm from.
Now the ticks in CT are even worse year by year especially litchfield county
Firstly, great upload. Just the part where you mentioned doctor's going back and forth with each other. Imagine them doing that with you!! I got (and still get) so frustrated. My white blood cell count was either misdiagnosed or helped cause my lymphatic system to behave as though it was something else entirely. I had a homeopathic treatment with bee venom, and I don't go into anaphylactic shock thank goodness! And it's treatment along with antibiotics did DEFINITELY help. However, I was very young when I was bitten. Now in my 40's I'm experiencing other "post Lyme" symptoms. "Not behaving like oneself" is very serious. The joint pain, trouble sleeping, and forgetfulness, and even depression I'm used to. It's the not thinking logically that is starting to scare me because I find myself either becoming angry for no reason. Or I think I'm forgetting I discussed something. And I'm normally a very easy to approach, and understanding person. I look at my partner, and wonder why they don't understand me, and forget why I feel so sad. Certain things are just normal responses to being depressed, and having extreme fatigue.. but I'm scared of hurting the ones I love most in life (emotionally not physically) , and think it's better to just withdraw from them.
I caught myself deliberately pushing them away. It's like I don't feel who I am now is worth their love or even time.
Again, great upload, and thank you for spreading awareness. I hope people get treatment, and don't let it get this far. I'm scared what the future holds, and normally would have a mindset that I handled worse, and I have someone or people who understand but I don't want them to think of me in this way. It's very difficult but I'm happy there's treatment recommendations, and understanding from channels such as yours. Thank you so very much.
I just got diagnosed with Lyme last week, so now I'm much much more paranoid. Thanks, youtube algorithm.
I’m just glad you got a diagnosis, and presumably will be treated! Doctors used to be reeeally dodgy about it, in a bizarre way that seemed very “conspiracy of silence.” Like, people would use code words to trade names of “Lyme Literate Medical Doctors” i.e. doctors they knew would be able and willing to treat Lyme - because many doctors would immediately shut it down and refuse to treat. Seems like that’s changed a ton, and that’s wonderful.
i was diagnosed with it 3 weeks ago. I thought I had slept funny and my shoulder hurt. By day three, it had traveled into my neck. Couldn't swallow on one side. Then it traveled down the inside of my arm and the pain is so bad I have to find one spot to keep my arm in and hold it there or the pain was really too much. So they put me on Doxycycline for 3 weeks. Had to have muscle relaxers prescribed, along with Tylenol and Tramadol. Test said I got it 3 months ago. So hopefully caught it in time.
@@uzi1951 I wish you and the original commenter both make full recoveries.
@@wickandwax thx
Sorry to hear that, I didn't want to make you paranoid. The thing with Lyme disease is that it is often not recognized (and properly diagnosed) for months/years. So the diagnosis itself is the crucial step and subsequent treatments with antibiotics are often very effective. I wish you the best!
I was diagnosed with Chronic Lyme Disease just yesterday. I had symptoms of arthritis with seemingly random aches and pains and swelling of different areas. I also had lockjaw and severe neck stiffness alongside cellulitis in my foot. I was given antibiotics to treat my foot but they only worked for 3 weeks until it began to flare up again. The antibiotics treated the infection but didnt effect the BB bacteria.
I lost 20 pounds in 5 weeks due to lack of appitite. I kept working and eventually I would just come home and lay on the couch until I fell asleep. I would wake up 4-5 times a night with muscle aches and fevers. My quality of life is currently pretty brutal but I am optimistic I will be back to business as usual since getting the correct antibiotics. Time will tell. I wish everyone with Lyme a speedy recovery and that they regain a quality of life that is acceptable.
I am lucky in the sense that I have saved up a good amount of money to keep me afloat during this time period which is one less thing to stress about. I just want to be able to play with my kids without severe joint pain and be the person I was before my symptoms began.
How are you feeling now friend?
Besides the bullseye rash the lethargy was what I noticed first. I went from being very energetic and wanting to go out to just wanting to sleep all the time and being so tired. I read somewhere that Lyme was created by the US government as a bio weapon but idk I just know it’s fairly new (first known case was in the 70s)
No Lyme wasn’t a bio weapon. I’m sure covid is though.
That's true. In Germany. And then transported to Long Island where it was discovered. Just like covid. That's why they're so hard to battle. They're not natural. Our systems can't handle them. I know from experience. The ones who know early enough, can do sth about it. You have to keep treating it otherwise you end op crippled. Lymies are very triggered if you comment about this. That's because it's traumatizing to have it in the first place.
A dear friend of mine had lyme disease from an infected tick in California. she had terrible migraines and fatigue to the point where she could hardly function. some symptoms were Alleviated with medications, but back in the 80s, lyme disease was not taken seriously and doctors would often refuse her that medicine. 8 years later, she had a high fever (103 F) for almost a week. After that, she had no lyme disease symptoms since.
I have CLD, have me & my body ever been through roller coaster rides, & beyond!! I have met MANY doctors throughout these years as well, not a fan of many either, certainly interesting however, ESPECIALLY when they ask what diseases I have, symptoms, etc. I’ve learned, they forget they’re MD’s. They’re “ judges”, tell me they don’t believe Lymes exists, or we don’t have ticks in “ this region “!! I ask them if they’re aware ticks can travel also, they don’t read on the signs where which border is where, I’ve learned to basically excuse myself from the appointment, I’ll be always the one to pay with flare ups as well, or unable to move at all, I know they’re not thinking twice of “ the patient that claims they have Lymes”, because, they won’t. If they did, they’d help & listen, regardless of their opinions, the good ones help w/ swelling, worse trimmers, on & on. I absolutely pray no one suffers a lot, catch it in time, & if you end up w/it, expect @ times there will be “ those docs”... don’t give up.
Cant respond to them all but anyone who has suffered and fought this or any disease I'm so glad you're doing ok and I wish the best of lucky and health upon you all have a good night and day :)
I was infected in 2018, did not receive any treatment until my knee blew up in 2019, and stayed on 3 courses of high dose antibiotics until summer 2021 before my symptoms resolved. I'm not convinced it's totally gone, but I have not had any significant flare-up since. The worst symptoms were the persistent body aches and chronic headaches, but the most bothersome were the brain fog and short term memory issues. To this day my sleep is poor (I used to be a very sound and deep sleeper), and my neuro-muscular system has never quite returned to normal (played sports my whole life and loved the gym--now I fatigue quickly and my body prefers to be sedentary).
Mistake:
David did not receive the profylactic dose (the one within 72 hours), but received it later (probably a longer course of doxy) because he already had symptoms.
Yes, and that's exactly what the video says.
Bruh, I literally just watched the part where he said that (arguably w/o any timeframe, but 72 hours seems arbitrary as well as it's just three full days).
Rewatch 6:34 if you feel the need to like to OG comment instead.
I hate ticks with my whole being. When outside i avoid getting touched by foliage and if i can't avoid it i immediately check the area for ticks. Literally the only One time i decided to try not to be so paranoid about foliage touching my skin and just let it be i later noticed a tick walking on my leg. 🤮 Thankfully it hadn't bitten me.
Thanks for showing us and take care.
Always check your ankles and calves! Everywhere else too obviously but they best reach those areas from the ground and the skin on the side and lower leg is usually less sensitive and thicker than other parts of the skin and socks squeezing your ankles all day make you used to feeling stuff against your ankles and weird feelings can easily be brushed off as an itch or your sock irritating your ankle sometimes long socks even slightly cut off circulation even just a little loss of circulation can lessen feeling
The infection should get an early as possible antibiotic treatment. Regarding the autoimmune reactions it might not help using an antihistamine combination of Claritin and pepcid but it would not hurt. It is worth the try, but like with Covid, scientific inquiries that might conflict with megacorporate pharmaceutical profits are not allowed
I'm from Brazil, Espírito Santo, Vitória. Three colleagues from work show symptoms and discovered that they have Lyme disease. These symptoms are so annoying and destroyed the life and healthy of them.
A tip:
If antibiotics dont get it when the infections first sets in, do not do more courses. It only gets harder to treat through that route, instead focus on supporting the body itself. Antioxidants, gut support, nourishment, etc. Once your body is more suited to tackling the organism herbal antimicrobials can suppress it.
The full details, protocols, and differentiations fill entire books but I find thos snippet to be an important one to set folks on the most successful path.
I've had Lyme since 2006. It sucks, I struggle EVERY winter. But i guess it's only important when "elite" celebs get Lyme.... sad.
Me too- struggle in the winter months like a relapse. Currently on antibiotics again.
The more celbs get it, the better chance of finding a cure. They will pump money into the research.
Same, wonder why?!
I had Lyme with lots of red circles all over my body. I couldn’t take doxy so took amoxicillin and was cured. Doxy make my eyes sight spin and other terrible reactions. Brain fog was the worst part along with fatigue.
I had lyme senior year of hs, I had these fevers and headaches that definitely changed something inside my mind, because it lasted 3mo. But after you feel good. Not something fun.
From personal experience I can say that Post-Lyme Syndrome doesn't exists, it's still an active infection that need prolonged treatment until remission of symptoms. 3 weeks of doxycicline doesn't do much for me but 6 months of combined antibiotic treatment does. Borrelia can create something called "round bodies" which makes them immune against antibiotics so longer treatments are often necessary but doctors don't wanna do it.
Love your accent. I’d let you read me a bedtime story - and/or brutally insult me about my cleaning habits in an unnervingly deadpan voice - ANY day 👀😌
You're all lucky that you haven't heard me in my native language..
Early detection is key and everyone will have varying levels of severity of the common symptoms. To be honest it's worth paying extra for your yearly physical to have them do a Lyme test to mitigate the risk of going years undetected with irreversible damage
Many never get the bullseye rash :( even harder to identify. I've known people who went years without getting properly diagnosed.
Encephalopathy is devastating.
Depending on the type and severity of encephalopathy, common neurological symptoms are loss of cognitive function, subtle personality changes, and an inability to concentrate. Other neurological signs may include dysarthria, hypomimia, problems with movements (they can be clumsy or slow), ataxia, tremor. Other neurological signs may include involuntary grasping and sucking motions, nystagmus (rapid, involuntary eye movement), jactitation (restlessness while in bed), and respiratory abnormalities such as Cheyne-Stokes respiration (cyclic waxing and waning of tidal volume), apneustic respirations and post-hypercapnic apnea.
My girlfriend has had it her whole life, and it has been absolutely awful to watch ruin her life. It is such a terrible disease. And in Australia, she is constantly told by Drs that it's all in her head. We just don't know what to do anymore. She can't even work nor is she eligible for welfare because it is not officially recognised in Australia.
Please read about phage therapy
@@MikuHatsune12 I don't know how we'd ever access that. It's not available in Australia.
@@Malloubyn are you able to email a professor or somebody
@@MikuHatsune12 We'll look into it. Hopefully she can get into a clinical trial, but then again, the odds are always against Lyme sufferers.
They are afraid of malingerers, it is not uncommon, for example the Astro-Hungarian empire was rife with them, during WW1. Do read J. Hasek's fiction for a humorous account of it. Your GF could very well be one of them malingerers...
Thank you for the important information about Lyme disease. I feel terrible because I didn’t believe a man who said his daughter had a lot of physical and psychological problems from Lyme disease. I thought it couldn’t cause all those problems. But now I know it’s real. I hope his daughter was able to get better. She was very successful before she got it but after she couldn’t work and she had a lot of problems.
I had lyme for nearly 4 years before i was diagnosed and treated, i could only walk a quarter mile per week. now post treatment i am slowly getting better and can sometimes walk 4 miles a week!
My mom got Lyme disease in 2017 when we went on a hike somewhere in Europe. We were traveling from place to place so we don’t know exactly where she got bit, but when we got home in the us, she got tested for Lyme disease but it came back negative and they couldn’t figure out why. Turns out she had a European variant and that’s why it took them so long to diagnose it. Her symptoms caused her terrible joint pain and she lost I think over 20 pounds.
My dad had it a few years ago, he spend several weeks in the hispital and now has damaged sense of balance (among other things)...before this ticks were just a normal part of our life in the wilidge but after this all of us started to be really carefull
Yeah I got lyme disease around 2015 around this time. Got drunk outside woke up the next day took a shower and had a red ring with the tick still on my shoulder. I went to work all day because my job at the time wouldn't let me take the day off to go to the emergency room. After work I went to the emergency room and got antibiotics immediately. The next day I barely could move and needed someone else to get me my antibiotics prescription. The person took their sweet ass time getting me my prescription so the whole day I suffered with fevers and hot flashes joint pain etc. I'm pretty sure I have permanent damage in my spine because of it because I've always had back pain since.
While on an exercise at Fort Hunter Leggett, CA, I got bit by a tick (Lyme disease was not known back then by the US Army and I had the classic bullseye rash). This was in 1982 while I was in the US Army. I went from being the PT instructor and leading physical exercise activities to having swollen knees and placed on a profile (no marching, standing long periods of time, no PT). I got out of the Army, in 1983, after 10 years service with headaches, swollen joints, optical problems, anger issues, foggy brain issues, chronic fatigue.. Fast forward to 2020, I went to the VA (signed up for VA in 2019 finally) and asked them to check me for Lyme Disease since my conditions continued for 38 years!!! Yep, I tested positive for Lyme Disease. Doxycycline later and no difference. Then in 2023, I asked the VA to recheck me. Yep, still have Lyme Disease. The VA's answer, "Our protocol is one dose of Doxy and if it doesn't work, you have chronic long term Lyme Disease so we can not help further." Thank you Army, because of you putting me in the field for 4 years of my 10 years, I am sick for life. I get only VA clinic help and nothing more for my service. I got spit on during Vietnam and now my government "spits" on me. And yes, you can live a long miserable life with Lyme Disease, but lately my cognitive abilities are getting real bad. It already caused a heart attack (Lyme Carditis) and now my brain is being effected.
Yup in Canada it's terrible healthcare. The reason why they don't care or treat us is because insurance and pharma lobby government and pay off CDC
Honestly it's cheap and easy check out bee venom therapy, it's been most effective for a lot of ppl but not perfect, it helped me significantly but didn't cure me
I have been going through the symptoms of Lyme since high school and was diagnosed w Lyme about 2 years ago when I had a very bad reaction and ended up in the hospital. I wasn't entirely sure why I was feeling so tired and having brain fog and whatnot during highschool and my doctors didn't know what was going on and misdiagnosed me w a bunch of things. I took antibiotics immediately after my diagnosis and it helped but after I was off them my symptoms came back and I've been going through post Lyme since then. If u don't have Lyme definitely protect yourself as best as you can whether that is wear clothes to cover your skin fully (especially the legs), bright clothes to better see the ticks, checks everytime you're in an area where they usually are and any other ways people have come up with. From my experience (and probably many others as well), Lyme is not fun at all so please protect yourselves even if your in an area where ticks usually aren't. :)
I got Lyme's disease by a tick. I woke up with one on my stomach and it was full.. Got sick and my joints hurt from it long after treatment.
Yes got lyme from my airplane seat, a new twist. Had rash but doctor failed to prescribe antibiotics. So 4 years later barely able to walk and after paying for 4 blood tests a US test came back positive. So expecting a long healing process and meds for many months.
the warmer it gets, the more of this stuff will see a rise. in my childhood, we had waaaay less mosquitoes or ticks.
I’m one of the first people in Minnesota to get Lyme disease which was around 1983 +/- a year.
It was diagnosed 3 decades later in 2013. It’s been a roller coaster ride of ups and downs through treatments, getting better and worse as the effectiveness of one natural medicine antibiotic will decrease over time and then I have to try another treatment.
Had it. It really, really hurts and is also very hard to breathe when you have the fever stage. Then taking doxycycline is truly awful, so even more misery. Many years later I still get flare ups and whether or not doctors agree, I know it is still there in some way.
Japanese knot weed kills the lyme persistent bacteria
My best friend was bitten when she was 5, but her parents didnt notice. For years doctors thought it was anorexia but when she was 16 she finally Got diagnosed. She got treated but had already lost part og her hearing and to this day her nerves in her legs are destroyed (she can walk but is basically paralyced).
So plz be carefull and check for ticks, i’ve been by her since she got diagnosed and i would’nt wish that for anybody.
I was hospitalized 4 years ago very I'll and severely dehydrated, because I was hospitalized with severe dehydration that is all they were treating me for. I was diagnosed with anaplasmosis and told to make an appointment with the infectious disease Dr. Saw my primary Dr in between but she wanted to get all bloodwork back before prescribing antibiotics. Saw infectious disease Dr first and was told I also had lyme disease and put on doxycylene. In the 4 years since I've lost 30 lbs, I weigh 97 lbs, diagnosed with Transverse Myelitis and just feeling like crap. No appetite, can sleep 15-16 hrs a day, I'm on 2 antidepressants and gabepentin now and never taken anything other than Tylenol etc. before and when I bring up I think it's all related to TICKS ,I'm ignored, like they don't even hear me, FRUSTRATED, TOTALLY!!!
My son got bit on Mother's Day of this year. His pediatrician said if there was no rash or fever, it was no problem. By early June, my 8 year old was in the hospital with severe joint infection in his knee. He had 2 surgeries to clean the joint, 14 days of iv antibiotics, and now we are home with oral antibiotics.
If you get bitten, demand a test. We never had a fever, rash, or flu symptoms. Just joint pain that we thought was growing pains until suddenly it got severe.
I’ve had increasingly painful and widespread joint pain ever since I was treated for Lyme 8 years ago. No doctor has ever been able to help me or suggest a diagnosis.
I go fishing very often and even with my boots on I’ve gotten bitten twice by ticks.
I’ve caught them both times within less than a few hours after they’ve latched on and before they swell up with your damn blood.
After I come back from any river or lake I go straight into the shower and check my legs and arms specifically. It’s horrific but you also have to check your… Crevices and groin. Although I have invested in some specific sock that prevents them from getting onto the skin and past the knee.
If you’re outdoors a lot in long grass I’d recommend the anti tick socks or any long up to the knee socks for that matter. I think the anti tick one have a certain chemical on them that the ticks hate so they leave. Regular socks don’t have that and they will crawl further up to try and get past them.
They crawl up inside your pant legs/sleeves and they can even end up in your armpit.
Horrible things.
Interesting video. I live in Australia where there are dozens of different types of tick. Each summer I find a tick(s) that has latched on to me. Here we call a small tick a "grass tick"...and in a big garden like mine, I pick them up (on my body) frequently. They say that Lyme disease doesn't exist in Aus. I can't say I have ever felt any bad effects from the many ticks I have had. But I wonder about long term effects. And depending on the type of tick I'm concerned whenever I find one on me. One particular tick, the paralysis tick has killed at least two cats I've had here.
They’re everywhere in the uk now too. From tiny seed ticks to the bigger ones. I’ve had two recently albeit not big. My daughter had one when she was one but we noticed it and removed it. It’s was minuscule though. My dad had lymes disease after a bite in France (he lives there now) but it was treated and he’s ok now. My pal went camping some weeks ago in Salisbury plains and slept with his tent door open he found fifteen of them on his body the next day. On his dick and everything. Horrendous creatures they are. Obviously only really dangerous if infected and the probability of that is when they’re near livestock or deer.
i live in australia and have never seen a tick,,,,, **knocks on wood**
@@KOL630 holy **** the second half of your comment made me shiver
Just got diagnosed not even hour ago and this pops in my recommended. YT algorithm gets spooky.
I actually had lyme's disease. The medicine tasted like poison and I took it late so I still experienced symptoms for years afterwards. I dealt with things like sore knees and ankles while running even short distances and I had trouble falling asleep for almost a decade. It really sucked, ticks are evil, always check for ticks after being outside for a while
Probably the only reason I'm glad that we have an Opossum problem in my area. No ticks.
Ticks are *tiny*, only about 1mm. I haven't had one for so long that when I last saw one, the tiny size really surprised me. They are really hard to spot when partly buried into the skin.
Oh, but they expand the more blood they suck. Most of the ones I find on my dog die before they get to feed cause of the parasite killer in his system, but I have seen one the size of a kernel of corn.
@@psypsy751 Yes D: But finding them early before they are inflated blobs is key to prevent disease. They only release bacteria/viruses into the blood once they are already full after 1-2 days.
depends on the species. adults can be 5mm here. but yes babies are like poppy seed size.
What we used to call Seed Ticks are very tiny and you can be bitten and not even know it. Also hard to prevent their bite, unfortunately.
A really close friend of mine got bitten by a tick when she was younger and her Lyme was misdiagnosed for years. She now is in her late 50’s and suffers immensely from neurological symptoms and loads more. I got bit by ricks many times as a child but idk if I ever developed any sort of Lyme disease or not.
I think you would know!
I recently got tested for Lyme and 9/10 of the IgG antibodies were positive. No IgM antibodies so apparently I was exposed to the bacteria a while ago. As far as I'm aware, I only ever had one embedded tick, and that was a while ago... But my area is infested with them 😦 Just started taking doxycycline and I'm curious to see if I'll feel better - been having a lot of fatigue and various recurring body/joint aches - but then again, I also have depression and MS so who knows what the cause even is 🙄
CIRS
FYI: its common that doctors often misdiagnose MS when its really lymes...
How are you feeling
About 2 years ago i got lymes disease from my cat and then immediately went to Florida for a trip, didn't even think anything was wrong until i got this mosquito type bumps all over my stomach and on the ride home my neck vertebrae started to hurt real bad. it honestly pretty scary at first but it turn out well for me especially given the time i was given before the real symptoms began to show.
I had undetected Lyme for 2 years, and it is HELL. I do not wish this upon anyone. Please be cautious and take nessecary measures , I have no life quality and I can not function in everyday life, and treatments are non existent.
My sister has autoimmune encephalitis partially due to lyme, I'm battling lyme and a few other tickborne illnesses too, it's real real in rural areas. She's been completely unable to function for the past year or so, tics and compulsions and everything, the worst part about it is definitely differing opinions between docs, couldn't get her treatment for 3 months at first, then four months after the first doc fell through. Luckily she's getting better very slowly, still unable to talk and tolerate loud noises or people, but she's gonna make it now. About 30% of the people I know have had Lyme around where I live, and the ticks invade areas very fast. Awareness is so important.
1:27 found a little tiny error, that figure you used to represent Borrelia burgdorferi is actually of a tobacco mosaic virus (judging by its hallmark helical construction).
I have fibromyalgia and often wonder if I actually have chronic Lymes disease. I've had my fair share of ticks on me as a kid and I certainly wasn't taken to the doctors every time or tested I don't think.
Same here. I've had fibromyalgia since 2004.
@@josephdockemeyer6782 damn. I've had it bad since 2012...at this point I've had it a third of my life.
I'm in Saskatchewan, I know 2 ppl personally diagnosed with fibromyalgia, it was chronic Lyme causing the symptoms. That's why they aren't doing anything is because they found the cause of many labels for symptoms and they want you on drugs for those symptoms the rest of your life
@user-xf3cu4le5z and the drugs they push are crap. At one time I was kinda alright being on paid meds and Adderall but the gov in the US were getting so weird about narcotics I had to find an alternative which is what I found in Kratom
@@lucianaromulus1408 ya I have anxiety, sleep issues, fatigue, muscle twitches with chronic Lyme. That's exactly what I have found helps with my sleep and anxiety, it is addictive and have to make sure you takes some time off or space it out. In Canada I have to order it online cause it's not legal here. If you ever curious if you want to be properly tested Armin labs is the best they say, but it costs about 1500 CAD
I got bitten by SO many ticks as a kid, I’m super lucky I never got Lyme. Mosquitos never bit me so I felt like I didn’t need to wear bug spray while camping but would literally pick multiple ticks off of myself throughout the day.
Been living with lyme for 15 years and only found out a few months ago. Misdiagnosed and mistreated since I was 18. I've heard good things about iv ozone therapy from others with similar cases to mine. After my first few sessions I feel better. Soon I will try the full ozone detox therapy.
It was six weeks before my Erythema Migrans even showed up and I was given three weeks of antibiotics and I got it again and I was diagnosed with fourth stage disseminated Lyme disease. I have all the symptoms still and I think it will be with me for the rest of my life! 😮💨
sorry. is it bearable?
@@ambmamb8370 it comes and goes, first I was so sick and tired, for 4 weeks I was practically bed ridden. Then you will have head pain, stabbing kind, just plain exhaustion, problems thinking, called brain fog, getting worse and you can get a type of dementia from it. Nauseated and hungry, which is confusing, not able to sleep nights, heart palpitations other then the regular ones. I have a brother in law that it is affecting his oxygen levels and a friend who is in worse shape than I am, plus it took her 7 doctors to take her serious! Good luck if you have it, a blood test should give you a diagnosis!
@@corvidmurder66 wow. im really sorry for what youve beeen through. hope we finally find something to combat it for good eventually so no one else gets this anymore
Please do a video on Osteoarthritis.
I live in Minnesota and I know quite a few people that have got Lyme.
Lyme is serious. I had it when I was 8, I had bullseyes all over my body and was pretty much paralyzed, I've had chronic symptoms ever since like joint pain, fatigue and floaters in my eyes. they told me you can only get it once. At age 17 I got a new separate case of Lyme and it went untreated for about a year, i ended up with bells palsy, nerve damage, blurred vision, foggy brain and the fatigue is brutal. it was a nightmare tbh. also I'm terrified of those little bastards ever since!
Look into stem cell therapy. I’m reading good success with this treatment.
I live in Dutchess County. Lyme disease is so prevalent, they have contests in schools to make PSAs to inform people about it.
I believe I have undiagnosed lime disease, as symptoms began a couple weeks before finding a well fed tick hiding under my pillow .
Unfortunately I did not keep the black legged tick for testing because I threw it outside before thinking.
Being an over the road driver is is difficult to get into doctors when I need to and walk in clinics just ask if I have a primary doctor.
I did take one Lyme lab test, but have never gotten my results back!
Yes I have had it and have a re occurrence sporadically often yearly. Mostly joint pain as fas as I know. I live in North Carolina USA
I managed to catch lyme disease the beginning of this summer.
What can I say.
Not a fun time. Walking down to the store on the other side of the street would leave me winded and my joints aching.
Thankfully I got a three week antibiotics prescription and it seems to have gone.
Probably should get another checkup with the doctor that saved me as I still seem to have a little bit more achy knees than before. Though I fly over the handlebars of my bike when the front wheel flew off two weeks before the lyme kicked in, but it never hurts to be sure.
Interestingly enough, when my leg got swollen from my bike accident (left calf) the bite that I had barely even noticed before turned black for two days.
Yes! This will cure my anxiety about ticks! 😅😭
Here's a note for the creator of this video, and I will tell any doctor or medical professional who thinks otherwise, you can get ticks from anywhere. It doesn't have to be in *certain areas." The 1st Weekend we had hot weather in our area during spring, in April, I went outside to do yard work and cut the grass. The 1st grass cutting of the season, I got bit by a tick...in my own yard...and I've had Lyme all year long! If anyone wants to learn about Lyme....ask someone who's had it.
I been hearing about people getting Lyme disease since I was little. When I found a tick on my stomach while camping in Cub Scouts I remember being terrified that I might get the disease SMH.
I had this and worse, but my diet and keeping my ph balance low, but again I now have the bad sore knee and antibiotics is fixing it. Life is crazy
We don't have ticks where I'm from so I had no idea about tick borne diseases. So when I was camping in Sweden last year and got bitten by a tick, I thought nothing of it. Two weeks later, I was in hospital with neurological Lyme Disease (a rare variant where it infects your nervous system and brain). Was not a fun experience at all. Be careful about ticks please everyone!
I've never had it, only heard of it after JB contracted it... now learning about it through yours video... I was always afraid of ticks... I'm even more afraid of them now. lol
good video brotha
The most useful advice:
1. Find out which areas are known Lyme Disease areas with reported cases.
2. Any places where there is potentially lymes' disease ie Long vegetation and Deer host populations
Then choose:
3. Avoid those areas OR if going into those areas take appropriate precautions which are:
Precautions once in Lyme potential area:
1. Spring and Late Summer nymph stage is where Lyme is most contracted so this time is very important to take precautions or avoid Lyme areas - equally take precautions anyway.
2. Avoid brushing vegetation and walk in clear open ground will in these areas resolve 90% of contact with ticks. Do not sit on the ground in these areas however eg camping or deer stalking massively increase ticks jumping onto you. They also hang off the tall part about 1 foot off the ground to catch onto fur of animals or human clothes.
3. Wear long rubber boots ideally or similar footwear to reduce ticks jumping on at the ankle-calf level below knee. That helps.
4. Wear light clothing - if seriously exposed buy the trowsers that have anti-tick chemicals in them but they're expensive it will massively improve your chances of avoiding tick eg if you are a woodsman for example
5. Periodically check self especially in contact with vegetation soon afterwards and clothing.
6. If finding ticks if you have a vial collect and put in the vial to send off for sampling to Lyme Disease reporting in your nation
7. If tick is attached, you need special tweezers to remove without leaving the head in. Have these handy
8. After walk - remove all clothes and do a full body check - ask a partner to check you and you check them. Repeat 6 and 7 if needed. Wash and change clothes and wash clothes used.
9. Finding the tick and removing within 24hrs prevents almost all transmission of Lymes Disease. So checking is very important.
10. If rash or bullseyes develop (sometimes it does not) then seek medical advice and course of antibiotics - again this is critical to kill the infection before it can do damage.
11. Be care of dogs or pets that can pick up ticks and check them. Helps if their coat is light coloured.
12. Best of all: Step 3: AVOIDANCE.