So we all know this lyme affects us in every area of our life.
My husband has been trying to understand all this stuff but medical stuff is greek to him.
What he has heard is I have at least 7 co-infections from late stage lyme.
Toxic, detox, neuortoxins, infections, abx. These words scare him and seeing how sick I have been and what I am going through.
Basically he is afraid to have sex with me because he is afraid of getting sick. Even with a condom.
He worries that with the abx bringing out the co-infections he is more at risk.
My LLMD says there is no risk because the infections are in my tissues and muscles and not airborne.
But we have read other articles on this subject.
What do any of you guys know about this?
Thanks for all your help with such a sensitive subject.
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Hes probaly already got it.It just hasnt shown up yet.
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Unfortunately, no one really knows and he may have good reason to be concerned. That said, if it is transmitted between people, he likely already has it. I don't think we know at this point.
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I doubt he has it, unless you contracted it at the same places your husband visits(your home ---> he got bit too). Otherwise, after 100 years of Lyme disease and definitely sex, humankind would now be extinct.
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I Lyme about 35 years ago before I was married. We've been married for 22 years and hubby shows no signs of it ... and we don't use condoms.
I think that if your hubby was going to get it from you, he'd already have it.
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No signs does not mean he does not have it. I know people that had no "signs" and still tested positive for Lyme. It may just be that it takes some longer to become ill but that they later have some neuro-degenerative condition such as ALS, Parksinson's, Alzheimers, etc.
I would not take absence of proof to equate with proof of absence.
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My LLMDs do not believe in sexual transmission. For all the people who have Lyme, many have spouses that show no signs or symptoms.
Scott - do you mean tested positive on an IgeneX Western Blot? This is a problem with antibody tests. Just because you "test positive" doesn't indicate active infection. Do you have anything to suggest the lyme would "jump" right to ALS/Alzheimers, instead to going through the normal path of acute infection > entrenched chronic infection etc... if it was a normal tick bite? Shouldn't someone get fatigue, CFS or Fibro type symptoms first? It just doesn't seem likely that someone could be infected sexually and not display any of the symptoms of acute or chronic lyme. While Lyme may be one cause of Alzheimers, there are many others out there so we can't relegate the fact someone gets Alzheimers 20 years down the road directly to Lyme. At this point, I don't think we can even make the connection with an antibody response, as opposed to antigen present.
I'm not saying don't be cautious, but there's a certain point at which "better safe than sorry" diminishes quality of life severely.
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FWIW, I don't have any published statistics to send you, but out LLMD said that in the married patients he treats, over 90% of spouses also tested positive for lyme via Igenex lab tests. If one family member tests positive, he recommends all family members be tested. It is entirely possible that it is sex. transmitted, but again, I have no published data for you. Just my 2 cents.
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My hubby and I both have Lyme.
I was dx. first in Oct. of last year.
He was recently diagnosed this past April.
I never saw a tick on me while he can recall at least two tick bites.
I think I am at greater risk of him giving it to me (I believe it has been found in sperm)...
However, at this time it is basically a moot point.
Either we are too sick, too tired or just not interested (decreased sex drive due to Lyme).
I have a neighbor who has now recognized that he has probably had Lyme for over 30 years.
His wife is completely asymptomatic.
I know this doesn't really help your situation.
We are all afraid of the unknown....
I hope to get back to a "normal" relationship with my husband....soon.
Hugs,
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I think it's probably true that most families all have Lyme. I don't think it's necessarily because of person to person transmission. Most families spend time together in the same places.
I think I'm the exception rather than the rule in that I know I was exposed before we were married, or had even met. I can believe that over 90% of spouses test positive, but I'd bet this is due to spending time together in the same tick infested places.
My husband shows absolutely no health problems whatsoever. He rarely even gets sick. I agree with the poster that it would be highly unusual for him to be perfectly healthy then all of a sudden come down with something serious due to latent Lyme.
Even though I lived more or less healthy for years, I still got infection after infection. I still battled fatigue and brain fog. I was a health nut and on supplements because they helped the way I felt. I was aware of detoxing for the same reason. I had some symptoms, but nothing even worth treating.
I'm not saying sexual transmission isn't possible. But I do think Lyme would be far more epidemic than it already is if it was common.
Out of five kids I've given birth to, only one shows any kind of symptoms at all and we know that it can be passed congenitally.
Are the rest asymptomatic or did their immune systems fight it off right at exposure? Does my husband have it and has fought it off, or did he not get it at all?
Along the same line of thought, why are some here so much sicker than others? Why do some take so much longer to heal than others?
This isn't just a cut and dry topic with a simple answer. In fact, I think overall with this disease, we have more questions than answers.
I still stand by what I said, if your husband was going to get it from you, he'd already have it.
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Perhaps Borrelia is sexually transmitted, but we simply don't know. If it is possible, then it may be only happening rarely.
Of course Borrelia has adapted to transmission via ticks and vertebrates, so it doesn't need sexual transmission like T. pallidum.
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From memory.. I think it was at the last LDA conference in Philly...
It was told that the keets can be in hiding .. I want to say 20 years... before they bing bang boom.
It may have been 15 years.. but I THINK it was 20 years. Don't quote me on the years.. but it was documented.. and it was a lot longer than the 10 years I originally knew about.
I also know the health department's stand on this is..
If it hasn't been documented, it can't be so.
As far as I know they have NEVER EVER EVER looked. So much for brains!
If it were me.. and what I DO tell others is..
Better safe than sorry.
Until we have absolute proof it CAN'T be... treat it as if it were a sexually transmitted disease... as it IS the cousin to syphlis and we know it can be transmitted to babies from the mother.
And who know...
Next month the "proof" could be there. Either way.
But with the minimal research being done on Lyme.. chances are it will take a number of years before it would be documented.
In the meatime.. a bottle of wine and some hot-to-trot pj's might help?
PS.. Some of the research to locate keets or evidence of them was done on the foreskin remnents of circumsicisons.
I am glad I wasn't one of those researchers with the foreskins. Can you imagine arriving at work in the morning with your coffee to a row of those waiting for study??!!?? YIKES!
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Just wondering did that research show anything? I mean besides the obvious?????
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quote:Originally posted by Lymied: TinCup - You crack me up!
I am glad I wasn't one of those researchers with the foreskins. Can you imagine arriving at work in the morning with your coffee to a row of those waiting for study??!!?? YIKES!
and also, where in the world did they get enough exposed-to-Lyme foreskins to do a study???????
eew.
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I personally believe it is common sense that it is not transmitted sexually, OR it would be an epidemic of untold proportions! Everyone, and I mean everyone would have it. Unless it is like AIDS, where it is transmitted sexually but only when there is an opportunity for it to be spread (don't want to get graphic).
Just a thought.
I know I was not having sex at all when I was infected! (Damnit! Wish I was!)
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I personally believe it is common sense that it is transmitted sexually its a epidemic of untold proportions! Transmission Fleas Mosquito's Food Etc
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Zakovska A, Capkova L, Sery O, Halouzka J, Dendis M. Department of Comparative Animal Physiology and General Zoology, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Kotlarska 2, CZ-611 37 Brno, Czech Republic. [email protected]
A total of 662 samples (winter period: 469; summer period: 193 specimens) of female mosquitoes of the genus Culex, Aedes and Anopheles were collected during the period March 2000-April 2001 from the locality of Vysoke Myto (Eastern Bohemia, Czech Republic). They were examined by dark field microscopy for the presence of spirochetes. The motile spirochetes were observed in 4.2 % of all species of investigated mosquitoes. One spirochetal strain out of the 8 isolation attempts (BRZ14) was obtained (cultivation rate was 12.5 %) and the spirochetal strain was then successfully cultivated and identified using PCR for the presence of Borrelia burgdorferi s.l., and subsequently with the RFLP as genomospecies Borrelia afzelii. This strain was derived from overwintering Culex (Culex) pipiens biotype molestus female mosquitoe. This is apparently one of the sporadic cases of the occurrence of pathogenic borreliae in haematophagous arthropods, other than Ixodes ricinus complex ticks.
PMID: 17199258 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
Kosik-Bogacka D, Bukowska K, Kuzna-Grygiel W. Department of Biology and Medical Parasitology, Pomeranian Medical University, 70-111 Szczecin, al. Powstancow Wielkopolskich 72, Poland. [email protected]
The mosquitoes were caught within the period of their highest activity, i.e. June August 2001, in recreational areas of the city of Szczecin. Spirochetes, Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato were detected in mosquitoes with the aid of the method of indirect immunofluorescence (IFA) using rabbit anti-Borrelia burgdorferi antibodies and goat anti-rabbit IgG marked with fluorescein isothiocyanate (FITC). A total of 639 mosquito females representing genera Aedes (99.1%) and Culex (0.9%) were collected. The mean value of the infection rate of mosquitoes from the area studied was 1.25%. The highest infection rate was recorded in June (3.2%), while the lowest -- in July (0.6%). All mosquitoes infected with Borrelia burgdorferi spirochetes belonged to the genus Aedes. The results of the present study confirm a potential role of those arthropods in epidemiology of Lyme borreliosis
PMID: 12088398 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
Halouzka J, Wilske B, Stunzner D, Sanogo YO, Hubalek Z. Institute of Vertebrate Biology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Brno.
During the years 1995-1996, a total of 1,743 overwintering Culex pipiens biotype molestus female mosquitoes were tested for the presence of spirochetes in several localities in South Moravia, Czech Republic.The spirochetes were observed in 5% of the mosquitoes investigated. One of the five isolated strains of spirochetes (BR-84) was identified as Borrelia afzelii. The potential role of mosquitoes in the ecology and epidemiology of Lyme disease (LD) borreliae should be further investigated.
PMID: 10885843 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
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-------------------- Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Remember Iam not a Doctor Just someone struggling like you with Tick Borne Diseases.
Zakovska A, Capkova L, Sery O, Halouzka J, Dendis M. Department of Comparative Animal Physiology and General Zoology, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Kotlarska 2, CZ-611 37 Brno, Czech Republic. [email protected]
A total of 662 samples (winter period: 469; summer period: 193 specimens) of female mosquitoes of the genus Culex, Aedes and Anopheles were collected during the period March 2000-April 2001 from the locality of Vysoke Myto (Eastern Bohemia, Czech Republic). They were examined by dark field microscopy for the presence of spirochetes. The motile spirochetes were observed in 4.2 % of all species of investigated mosquitoes. One spirochetal strain out of the 8 isolation attempts (BRZ14) was obtained (cultivation rate was 12.5 %) and the spirochetal strain was then successfully cultivated and identified using PCR for the presence of Borrelia burgdorferi s.l., and subsequently with the RFLP as genomospecies Borrelia afzelii. This strain was derived from overwintering Culex (Culex) pipiens biotype molestus female mosquitoe. This is apparently one of the sporadic cases of the occurrence of pathogenic borreliae in haematophagous arthropods, other than Ixodes ricinus complex ticks.
PMID: 17199258 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
Kosik-Bogacka D, Bukowska K, Kuzna-Grygiel W. Department of Biology and Medical Parasitology, Pomeranian Medical University, 70-111 Szczecin, al. Powstancow Wielkopolskich 72, Poland. [email protected]
The mosquitoes were caught within the period of their highest activity, i.e. June August 2001, in recreational areas of the city of Szczecin. Spirochetes, Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato were detected in mosquitoes with the aid of the method of indirect immunofluorescence (IFA) using rabbit anti-Borrelia burgdorferi antibodies and goat anti-rabbit IgG marked with fluorescein isothiocyanate (FITC). A total of 639 mosquito females representing genera Aedes (99.1%) and Culex (0.9%) were collected. The mean value of the infection rate of mosquitoes from the area studied was 1.25%. The highest infection rate was recorded in June (3.2%), while the lowest -- in July (0.6%). All mosquitoes infected with Borrelia burgdorferi spirochetes belonged to the genus Aedes. The results of the present study confirm a potential role of those arthropods in epidemiology of Lyme borreliosis
PMID: 12088398 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
Halouzka J, Wilske B, Stunzner D, Sanogo YO, Hubalek Z. Institute of Vertebrate Biology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Brno.
During the years 1995-1996, a total of 1,743 overwintering Culex pipiens biotype molestus female mosquitoes were tested for the presence of spirochetes in several localities in South Moravia, Czech Republic.The spirochetes were observed in 5% of the mosquitoes investigated. One of the five isolated strains of spirochetes (BR-84) was identified as Borrelia afzelii. The potential role of mosquitoes in the ecology and epidemiology of Lyme disease (LD) borreliae should be further investigated.
PMID: 10885843 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
1: Zakovska A, Capkova L, Sery O, Halouzka J, Dendis M. Isolation of Borrelia afzelii from overwintering Culex pipiens biotype molestus mosquitoes. Ann Agric Environ Med. 2006;13(2):345-8. PMID: 17199258 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
2: Kosik-Bogacka DI, Kuzna-Grygiel W, Gornik K. Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato infection in mosquitoes from Szczecin area. Folia Biol (Krakow). 2006;54(1-2):55-9. PMID: 17044261 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
3: Nefeev AA. [Investigation on mixed natural foci of zoonotic infections] Zh Mikrobiol Epidemiol Immunobiol. 2005 Mar-Apr;(2):117-8. Russian. No abstract available. PMID: 15881957 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
4: Cechova L, Durnova E, Sikutova S, Halouzka J, Nemec M. Characterization of spirochetal isolates from arthropods collected in South Moravia, Czech Republic, using fatty acid methyl esters analysis. J Chromatogr B Analyt Technol Biomed Life Sci. 2004 Sep 5;808(2):249-54. PMID: 15261818 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
5: Kosik-Bogacka D, Kuzna-Grygiel W, Bukowska K. The prevalence of spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato in ticks Ixodes ricinus and mosquitoes Aedes spp. within a selected recreational area in the city of Szczecin. Ann Agric Environ Med. 2004;11(1):105-8. PMID: 15236506 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
6: Zakovska A, Nejedla P, Holikova A, Dendis M. Positive findings of Borrelia burgdorferi in Culex (Culex) pipiens pipiens larvae in the surrounding of Brno city determined by the PCR method. Ann Agric Environ Med. 2002;9(2):257-9. PMID: 12498597 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
7: Kosik-Bogacka D, Bukowska K, Kuzna-Grygiel W. Detection of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato in mosquitoes (Culicidae) in recreational areas of the city of Szczecin. Ann Agric Environ Med. 2002;9(1):55-7. PMID: 12088398 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
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I do NOT believe it is sexually transmitted!!
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For those who do not believe it is sexually transmitted-you are aware it is a spirochete? A spirochete that has been cultured from saliva for goodness sakes!!
A very knowledgable LLMD told me that people are now getting Lyme from cow's milk...
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I agree with Tincup (and always get a good laugh from the posts!), that since we don't know, care is needed.
However, I think for those of us who have been with the same spouse for years, if it were going to be transmitted sexually, it would have been already. The woman who posted has been with her guy since before she was diagnosed.
I was asymptomatic for 10 years. Then it went into remission on its own 3 times. So there's truth to that, too.
Mine was always set off be severe emotional stress. If it weren't for the stress I had I don't think I ever would have shown symptoms. I think some people can carry the disease but their immune system keeps it in check. Perhaps that's what my husband and children are doing, who knows?
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Searching4, the truth of the matter is we really don't know who HAS IT and who DOESN'T.
After all, the only asymptomatic people who get tested are spouses and family of Lymies. And very often, they test positive with no symptoms.
There are studies from Europe that show only a small percentage of people "infected" with Lyme bacteria actually become symptomatic (at least right away).
As I recall, the longest documented, verified time lapse between tick-bite infection and onset of symptoms is 5 years, but I'll wager that there may be people out there who never get "sick" even though they are infected.
It's almost as if there have to be precipitating factors that cause the Lyme bacteria to become pathogenic or destructive.
Could it be that the bugs stay rather dormant or innocuous in most of the population? It's certainly possible, isn't it?
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Takedownthemoon,
Yes, I am aware it is a spirochete!!! SO IS LEPTOSPIRA- and BRACHYSPIRA- and MANY OTHERS! They all have differing routes of TRANSMISSION!
Who is high risk for Leptospirosis?
A. Sewage workers B. Dairy workers C. Sea lions D. Flood victims in areas with sewage E. ALL OF THE ABOVE BECAUSE IT IS HIGHLY TRANSMISSIBLE IN LIQUID-
Who is at HIGH risk for syphilis????
A. prostitutes who do not use safe sex B. anyone promiscuous who does not use safe sex C. babies of the above if they are female D. ALL OF THE ABOVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Who is high risk for Lyme disease?
A. agricultural workers B. the homeless!!! C. outdoor activity people, ex. hikers D. anyone who goes outdoors E. ALL OF THE ABOVE!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I also know the health department's stand on this is.. If it hasn't been documented, it can't be so. As far as I know they have NEVER EVER EVER looked. So much for brains!
Agreed! Does anyone really believe they forgot to check if borrelia is a STD? They either know the answer so therefore have done no studies OR their incompetence is beyond comprehension. Sometimes absence of proof is proof in and of itself. This is such a time.
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