LymeNet Flash: Help - Need articles on 'chronic lyme' for Worker's Comp case

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Posted by lymeyinok (Member # 5817) on :

Happy New Year to Everyone!

Thanks to everyone who posts on lymenet! The info is so helpful!

I need help compiling some articles about chronic lyme to take with me to a doctor (unfamiliar with lyme) who will be evaluating me for a worker's comp claim associated with lyme. I got bitten while on a week long school field trip.

I know I have read at least 200 articles, but my 'lyme brain' is having a hard time finding some of the better articles I have read!

Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated! I will be asking for Permanent Partial Disability, but have not found anyone posting here about Worker's comp claims. Would love to hear from anyone who has been down this road!

Thanks!

Posted by riversinger (Member # 4851) on :

Check in www.lymeinfo.net under the persistence files. There is lots of good information there. I haven't had any experience with workman's comp, so can't give you any specific info there.

Good luck with it.1

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Posted by cootiegirl (Member # 3216) on :

Hi.
There was a landmark case in NYC maybe a year or two ago of a woman that received workman's comp for lyme...I can't remember if she was a police officer or social worker. She was assisting in the removal of homeless from a building and was bit by a tick.

I think there was an article in the New York Times. It was posted here so if you do a search, it may show up. If not, try the archives of the NY Times.
cootiegirl

Posted by kam (Member # 3410) on :

lymeinok.....

I will keep you in mind. I, too, have been looking for something to help me with my workmen's comp case.

I have been dealing with workmen's comp for 3 years now.

All I have is that several of us came down with the same symptoms at the same time.

AT least 3 of us have yet to be able to return to work.

All of us were dx with CFS/fibro. I would not accept the CFS/fibro dx and continued to look for answers. This is when I was dx with LD.

The others are refusing to go to my LLMD and have been approved for workmens' comp. One was approved with a valley fever dx and is continuing to wait and see what will happen now that she has a CFS/fibro dx.

The other was approved with a fibro dx brought on by stress at work.

We all three had the same symptoms and came down sick the same time. One two weeks before I did. The other I am not sure how close it was to when I came down sick.

I am being told that they can't come up with a doc who will connect this with work as they look at individual cases.

I understand the difficulty. Not sure how to help them help me.

I sure hope we are able to find some answers. I made the mistake of not reporting the bite with a ring around it.

I just thought it was a spider bite and ignored it....as did many of the docs when I told them my symptoms might be due to LD.

I also had one of my students have a bite with a ring around it on his leg right before I got sick.

I told him it was probably a spider bite and medical couldn't do anything.

He went to medical right away and they gave him abx.

It is a mystery.