Here's a really good site for Medical jargon:

http://www.med-help.net/Lab-MedTerm.htm

Here's a good link for Common Abbreviations and Symbols Used in Writing Prescriptions

Here's one from previous posts:
http://flash.lymenet.org/ubb/Forum1/HTML/012495.html

Rosemary

I revised the first list with your suggestions and a few more additions.

Miss Rosemary-
those are really good links- thanks.

what skyking just posted, IMO

I'm serious, I have been too embarrassed to ask, but I can't figure it out!!!!

LOL = Laugh Out Loud or Laughing Out Loud

ROTFL = Rolling On The Floor Laughing

ROTFLOL = Rolling On The Floor Laughing Out Loud

BTW = By The Way

"So, to make a long story short, if you just got Lyme Disease, by all means knock the crap out of it early with as much antibiotics as you can take."

is more what you should have said. I don't think it's a good idea to be telling newbies that antibiotics are bad. To do that would cause even MORE long-term chronic Lyme patients than there already are.

Antibiotics are the first line of attack and VERY NECESSARY!

IF after long-term usage, the patient is not MUCH better, then alternative methods should be explored. [Of course, there's the question of "how long" etc.] I think the individual will have to decide along with their LLMD.

But Bryan, please be careful about your blanket statements, and especially WHERE you place these statements!

I do appreciate your input and experience with alternative/adjuctive therapies.

I just wanted to stress that we all react diferently to various treatments and we should all base our own opinions on what works for each of us.

IMHO, it is important to keep our minds and eyes open when dealing with a baffeling disease such as Lyme.

I am off all abx and doing my B3 now and can honestly say that I have slid backwards...much more pain and fatigue the #1 and #2 complaints of LD patients to my LLMD...

but, after 20 months of abx, I have said enough is enough and I will continue to do whatever my pocketbook allows me to do.

UP for all our New Members...

quote:

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Originally posted by theskyking:
Antibiotics are perfect cash cows. They can be patented, so "owned. They are one-time-one-use, so each time you run out, you have to *buy* more.

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Yes, it's too bad that western medicine is profit-driven instead of altruistic. But that's the price you pay for living in a corporatacracy.

Despite that, about half of the antibiotics that are used in Lyme treatment have generic versions, and can be obtained fairly easily at low cost. These include the -cyclines, -cillins, and -azoles. Treatment using one or more of these medications will cost you less than $100/month.

Based on available knowledge, Antibiotics DO work best of all the options. Until sufficient data is presented to shift that paradigm, you are only doing others harm by downplaying the importance of antibiotics in Lyme treatment.

We appreciate your comments on adjunctive therapies, Bryan, but please do not downplay a treatment modality that has proven to work for Lyme and other spirochetal illnesses.

NBD....No Big Deal

KMA.....Kiss My A** (Said to Duck...of course)

lol

My favorite has to be AMA -- Against medical advice -- especially since a duck recently accused me of "PLAYING DOCTOR".

Do you have a child or children?

If you found a bulls eye rash on your child, how would you treat it? Honestly.