LYME WEBSITES
International Lyme and Associated Diseases Society* www.ilads.org
Lyme Aware www.lyme-aware.org
Lyme Disease Association* (LD Doctor Referrals) www.lymediseaseassociation.org
Lyme Disease Audio Network* www.lymediseaseaudio.com
Lyme Disease Foundation* (Call for LD Doctor Referrals) www.lyme.org
Lyme Disease Network* (features Joseph J Burrascano JR., M.D. diagnosis & treatment protocols) www.lymenet.org
Lyme Disease Resource Center www.lymedisease.org
The Lyme Times www.lymenet.org
LymeInfo.net* www.lymeinfo.net
WILDER Network www.wildernetwork.org
LYME ISSUES
“The Scientific Controversy: There has been a long-standing controversy in the medical community as to whether or not Lyme disease is easily diagnosed, treated and cured. One group states that diagnosis is easy and that Lyme is almost always cured with 4 weeks of antibiotics. If the patient is still sick after those 4 weeks, this group claims that either the patient was incorrectly diagnosed, that the continuing symptoms are psychosomatic, or that the patient now suffers from an autoimmune problem which was caused by the original Lyme infection — and that there is no treatment for this auto-immune problem.
The other side of the controversy is supported by chronic Lyme patients and the physicians who treat us. We contend that the persistence of Lyme disease symptoms beyond the 4 week treatment is due to the persistence of the Lyme disease bacterial infection and/or to the presence of co-infection. We attest to the fact that we do much better when treated beyond those 4 weeks of antibiotic treatment. Our subjective experience is supported by a body of peer reviewed scientific research.
Since there is no definitive test to show when someone has Lyme disease and/or is cured of it, since our symptoms persist past the standard four week treatment, and since we have significant scientific literature supporting that the Lyme bacterium can survive this standard treatment, we protest any attempt by the OPMC to repress the right of physicians to treat chronic Lyme disease patients according to their best clinical judgment which has been informed by the scientific literature.”
LYME INFORMATION
But They LOOK So Good! – The Paradox of Feeling Bad, but Looking Good. http://www.invisibledisabilities.org/educate/invisibleawareness/buttheylooksogood/
CDC Division of Vector-Borne Infectious Diseases: Lyme Disease: Introduction
Clinical Infectious Diseases, Electronic Edition www.journals.uchicago.edu/CID/journal/
The Complexities of Lyme Disease by Thomas M. Grier, MS www.wildernetwork.org/complexities_of_Lyme.html
FDA Requires Direct Patient Warning of Anti-Malaria Drug Side Effects www.mercola.com/2003/jul/30/malaria_drugs.htm
Late and Chronic Lyme Disease: Symptom Overlap with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome & Fibromyalgia
www.immunesupport.com/library/showarticle.cfm/ID/3579
Lyme Disease – Home Page www.santel.lu/SANTEL/diseases/lyme.html
Lyme Disease and Human Granulocytic Ehrlichiosis in a New York City Park www.cdc.gov/ncidod/eid/vol3no3/daniels.htm
Lyme Disease relief…without antibiotics http://cassia.org/
Lyme-New and Noteworthy News www.sky.net/~dporter/new.htm
Notes and Observations on Cell-Wall Deficient Forms by Thomas Grier, MS (article web address no longer known).
Prodigy Health Home: Lyme Disease http://my.webmd.com/
Sex and Lyme Disease by Robert C. Bransfield, MD www.mentalhealthandillness.com/Articles/SexAndLymeDisease.htm
Vitamin C: A Lyme Patient’s Friend or Foe? (article web address no longer known).
Why Are We Still Sick? by Thomas Grier, MS www.wildernetwork.org/why_r_we_still_sick.html
Will There Ever Be An Accurate Test for Lyme Disease? by Thomas Grier, MS www.wildernetwork.org/accurate_test.html
NEUROPSYCHIATRIC LYME
Dr. Robert Bransfield, psychiatrist, presented on the behavior changes of people who become infected with Lyme on February 28, 2006 at the Jackson Municipal Building. Read several of his documents here!
Aggression and Lyme Disease by Robert C. Bransfield, MD www.mentalhealthandillness.com/Articles/AggressionAndLymeDisease.htm
All in Your Head www.mentalhealthandillness.com/Articles/AllInYourHead.htm
Distinct Pattern of Cognitive Impairment Noted in Study of Lyme Patients www.anapsid.org/cnd/diffdx/rissenberg.html
Functional Brain Imaging and Neuropsychological Testing in Lyme Disease www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdf/10.1086/516175
Lyme Disease and Cognitive Impairments www.mentalhealthandillness.com/Articles/LymeDiseaseAndCognitiveImpairments.htm
Lyme Disease, Depression and Suicide by Robert C. Bransfield, MD www.mentalhealthandillness.com/Articles/LymeDepressionAndSuicide.htm
Lyme Neuroborreliosis Research Program (magnetic resonance spectroscopy) www.lymeneuroborreliosisprogram.org/html/current-research/our-researchers/odel-gonen-interview.html
Microbes and Mental Illness by Robert C. Bransfield, MD www.mentalhealthandillness.com/Articles/MicrobesAndMentalIllness.htm
Neuro-psychiatric Lyme Assessment www.mentalhealthandillness.com/tnaold.html
Psychotropic Management of Late Stage Lyme http://www.mentalhealthandillness.com/Articles/ThePsychotropicManagementOLateStageLymef.htm
Spirochetes on the Brain by Robert C. Bransfield, MD www.mentalhealthandillness.com/Articles/SpirochetesOnTheBrain.htm
SUPPORT GROUPS
Lyme Disease Foundation (Call for LD Doctor Referrals) www.lyme.org
TESTING
IgeneX
Palo Alto, California
http://www.igenex.com/
415-424-1191
800-832-3200
North American Laboratory
New Britain, CT
203-826-1140
800-866-NALG
203-223-6279-fax
New Jersey Laboratories
New Brunswick, NJ
732-249-0148
Tick Research Laboratory
Kingston, Rhode Island
401-874-2650
Summer Tick Tip from a nurse Patti Wooldridge in in AZ: You can purchase Flowers of Sulfur from a drug store. It is a powder you can apply like talcum powder. Dust your sock, inner pant legs and shoes and they won’t land on you and bite.
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