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Looking for a psychologist who is Lyme Literate in the Northern Virginia area. I have a 16 year-old recently diagnosed with having Babesia and possible Lyme. He has anxiety and depression. Thanks!
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If you want someone who can prescribe medication, then you want a psychiatrist or any other medical doctor. A psychologist can't prescribe meds. They just do talk therapy. See this site:
So, a lyme doctor can treat the patient for anxiety and depression which are common lyme symptoms.
I know of no lyme literate psychologist or psychiatrist anywhere in the Va, Md, D.C. area. There may be less than a handful in the entire U.S.
There used to be a lyme literate psychiatrist in Pa., but she has retired. Her standard advice was for the patient to be treated by their lyme doctor and only if the lyme doc couldn't take care of the psych symptoms should the patient come to her.
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He is seeing a LLMD for the physical symptoms. He saw a psychiatrist first due to extreme anxiety and depression.
I didn't put two and two together that the Babesia might be the reason until recently. He had a blood test in June and it was revealed that he had Bab. The NP at the ped. office said his body would take care of it. He has been sick off and on for a year and a half.
Well, he got strep and was not getting better so I started asking questions. It was then I learned more about Bab. and its symptoms, found a LLMD, and here we are at the beginning of this journey. Thank you for posting a reply. :-)
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Welcome to Lymenet! PM sent with some suggestions.
I don't know of any LL Psychologists in the northern VA area. There are very few in general in the U.S.A.
Babesiosis will not be "taken care of by the body" as the non Lyme-literate NP told you. It needs to be aggressively treated with Mepron and Artemisinin.
Btw - please break up your posts into 2-3 sentence paragraphs, as there are people on Lymenet who cannot read large blocks of text due to neurological problems from Lyme. Thanks.
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