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Does anyone know the truth behind this ? I've been with my boyfriend almost the entire time I was sick and he is totally fine. So I guess it is possible it can be transmitted but just not definite ?
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- It is possible. Precautions, excellent health choices / habits for both partners are wise.
Your tests have not yet come back, you've not yet been assessed by a LLMD so it's not clear if you have lyme. Still, as you are ill with something, precautions just make sense, no matter what is going on. -
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That's right. I will be patient. Thank you Keebler. ❤️
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Many lyme doctors believe that lyme can be sexually transmitted. The one who cured me believed it could be but believed it was rare.
Another lyme doc said she saw it in married couples a lot. If she just treated one, they could never get well. So, she always wanted to interview the spouse to see if they had any lyme symptoms. If they did, she encouraged them to be tested and treated also. One woman turned out to be positive for lyme that way.
My lyme doc said lyme is more easily transmitted from male to female because there is a greater exchange of bodily fluids male to female than female to male.
I had undiagnosed lyme for at least 10 years and I never gave it to my husband. I even had him tested through Igenex and he was totally negative except one + on band 41 and my lyme doc said he didn't have lyme. He has never had lyme symptoms all of these years (now 20 years.)
So, I think a lot depends on the health of your bodyfriend. If his immune system is in good shape and he has no symptoms, he likely does not have lyme right now.
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From what I've seen, about half of couples both get Lymed. Maybe it depends on the strength of someone's immune system, maybe ability to detox - ie physiological ability to fend off a shared infection.
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Semia, I'm married and hubby never got lyme. I had lyme first in 2005. It's been 10 years,and he is still lyme free.
I dont' want to be an example, but so far, so good. He's got bitten only once by a tick and didn't fall sick either.
There is a doctor in a famous Swiss clinic (I live in switzerland) who said almost EVERYONE is infected with borrelia, but only a SMALL percentage have lyme symptoms.
He ran tests in the region I live, and the amount of DNA of Borrelia he found among the population was very high.
This Paracelsius doctor thinks that what makes people sick has to do with immune problems, not with the pathogen itself.
Dr. K. says virtually everyone has Borrelia in their bodies, but not all fall so ill with lyme.
I see people around me being constantly bitten by ticks and they still look fine (children, adults and old people).
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