Maggie's Farm

I defy those who scoff at Lyme sufferers to let themselves be infected, go a month or two , get the standard pathetic regime of two weeks oral antibiotics to be told they are cured. And thereafter be told that the possible subsequent arthritis, fatigue, and auto-immune system going haywire they get are "all in your head" without becoming a tad testy.

I believe that some people may be slightly more susceptible to after effects, even when treated by antibiotics. Just as some people get allergic symptoms and others do not, in response to pollen or dairy or seafood, some people who get Lyme become chronically ill with a variety of annoying to disabling problems afterwards. And some do not. In a similar manner, some people exposed to TB merely convert to PPD positive but do not become ill, while others suffer, become ill and contagious.

People vary enormously, and to say that Lyme is all psychological is cruel and medically a cop out. Perhaps people become depressed , anxious or even (gasp) neurotic after being disbelieved, patronized and not receiving help. After becoming Victims of the medical quacks who rush in to profit from the fact that mainstream medicine has no interest in helping them.

I know a young male family friend, athlete, teenager , felled by this disease, as were most of his family. The joys of country life! Like us, all treated several times for Lyme because no one I know cowers indoors unless a lazy POS who hires others to do their yardwork or someone who never hikes, etc. Only he became truly disabled by it. He is not a head case. Blaming the victim is unworthy of medical professionals and unChristian.