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I will be on medicaid in December and am hoping to find someone who might take medicaid though I know it's a long shot. It's my only hope because I don't and won't have money for treatment.
Maybe just someone who at least believes in chronic Lyme and will be understanding and sensitive to my issues.
Mainly bad bad bad anxiety. I refuse all antidepressant and anti psychotic etc. Xanax keeps me sane occasionally taken and need a doctor ok with that that won't shove other psych meds in my face. Other than that I am on no meds or treatments but I need to start some sort of treatment.
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TF
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Click on Support Groups on the left side of the page. Find the lyme support groups in Virginia. Contact all of them.
They may know of a lyme friendly doctor--one who has a regular medical practice and takes Medicaid and believes in treating lyme long-term.
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You need to be evaluated and treated by a Lyme-literate doctor (LLMD). Non LLMDs have no clue about this horrible disease or its complex treatment!
A LLMD is one who has treated Lyme disease and the co-infections which come with it for many years and has gotten patients well. A good one will follow Dr. B's Guidelines, the "gold standard" for Lyme treatment.
Unfortunately, LLMDs are far and few between. You need to go where they are. I don't know of any LLMDs in VA who take Medicaid.
Also most LLMDs do not accept insurance due to the politics surrounding this horrible disease. Read poster TF's explanation, "Why Lyme Doctors Don't Take Insurance":
You could also call the Lyme Disease United Coalition at (800) 311-7518. They are very knowledgeable and might know of someone. Website is: http://www.lduc.org/lyme-disease-resources Scroll down and you will find links for all sorts of information, especially financial help.
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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