I was just curious to know after what this disease does to every part of your existence if some people have either considered moving or moved to an area less prevalent for Lyme. I know some people who have but wanted to know overall about how many people would consider it. If not why wouldn't you?
Posted by timaca (Member # 6911) on :
I live in AZ. It's here too.
I had always thought I'd want to bike through New England in the fall.
Now, I can't bike (no stamina and my knee kills me). There is no way I'd vacation in NY or any place that has lyme.
If I beat this, I sure as heck don't want it back!
Posted by cigi (Member # 6600) on :
There's not many places to go where it isn't, but living in the middle of it doesn't help. I guess with so many things that can cause it besides deer(mice, birds...) it's part of everyday life and fate, but living in a hot spot is like a magnet.
Posted by heiwalove (Member # 6467) on :
this isn't an answer to your question, but hopefully it's at least a little related:
if lyme is really *everywhere (and i definitely believe it is, don't get me wrong..), why are there so many people who don't have it? who are perfectly healthy? why do so many people still vacation & camp & hike in endemic areas over and over again, often blissfully ignorant, and never get sick? if it's so rampant and becoming an actual epidemic, why are doctors such idiots when it comes to this disease? why the prolonging controversy?
it's just hard to explain all this stuff to folks who have no idea. other than my one "real-life" friend with lyme (we think we got infected at the same time, in the same place), i don't know anyone else with this disease. or, supposedly i don't. my stepsister has MS. there's no way in hell she'd ever get tested for lyme. she used to be a rockclimber. hmm. my mother has all sorts of health problems but doesn't even believe chronic lyme disease exists, so she can't even be a support to me right now. my great aunt died of parkinson's, my grandmother (who was very much a housewife and never went camping, etc, although i know that means next to nothing) died of alzheimer's.
sorry i'm rambling so much. any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.
blessings, heather.
Posted by Bugmenot (Member # 7878) on :
I'm headed for Costa Rica and the tropics next year, maybe the free sauna and free malaria will kill my Keets.
Heather, My father and uncle both were exposed to ticks (northern hunter/trappers), both had chronic health manifestations later in life that probably were caused from bugs and both were diagnosted with Parkinsons (and other familiar issues) before they died some 30 years ago. So I'm pretty sure the bugs have been a health problem in Canada at least to the 20's. Ticks were used as vector to spred disease during WWII. Plum Island Animal Research Facility and its neighboring town, Lyme CT, is not a coincidence. I don't believe that the claimed ignorance from the established medical community is a coincidence either.
Posted by lymie tony z (Member # 5130) on :
Yes, I moved from one supposed lyme free state OHIO to another Florida. HAHAHA>>>>
There is not a lyme free state or country IMO...
The only reason the northeast is considered more endemic is IMO awareness and treatment of the disease....AWARENESS being the key....
When ducks and insurance companies refuse to recognize the disease it leaves them in ignorance and disbelief and their patients in sickness and pain...
Other factors such as a genetic predisposition may have something to do with why some infected individuals are asymptomatic.......
Ducks treating patients with steroids for the arthritic conditions they perceive as osteo,rheumatoid may be the contributing factor that inhibits our own bodies defenses and allows the lyme to disseminate thruout our bodies. zman
Posted by pattilynn (Member # 8065) on :
To Lymie Tony: Do you really think Ohio is a Lyme-free state? The doctors keep telling me that and I can't even get tested here. Funny Lyme is endemic in PA which is about an hour and a half from where I now live. Do they think the bugs stop a the border. In 1992 I lived in Rocky River and took my dogs to the Metro park there about 5 days a week. I walked along the river in weeds up to my neck. I developed 3 bullseye rashes at that time and have never been the same since. I have never been officially diagnosed but am working on it. Patti
Posted by Monica (Member # 224) on :
You can run, but you cannot hide from Lyme disease.
Posted by treepatrol (Member # 4117) on :
There are no lyme free states some like montana or alaska might say so but in time they will see they are not.
Posted by lymie tony z (Member # 5130) on :
No No NO, Pattie
I said supposedly lyme free state(Ohio) and then laughed...ha ha ha...
Of course that is what I was told and am told down here in Florida by the DUCKS....
If you were in Rocky River and went thru the metro parks then you may have seen me riding my bike and handing out lyme disease pamphlets...I used to ride from rte 82 to Berea and back...
That's too far south for Rocky River... Anyway...when I got involved with Ann in Olmsted Falls lyme support group(we met at Southwest Hospital in middleburg hts)
You need to go to Hermitage Pa to get a doctor like I had to do.....I can hook you up with the doc I went to there if you need his info...
While I lived there, there was a case of two boy scouts getting lyme in rocky river...among other townships like N. Olmsted and Strongsville....
No there is NO lyme free state........or country that I know of.....zman
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There is no way I'd vacation in NY or any place that has lyme. ![[group hug]](graemlins/grouphug.gif)