Just curious to how many people that are on this website are from Illinois?!
Just asking because my doctor is saying its hard to believe your whole family has lyme. Lyme isnt in this area.
And I told him that there are other people in Illinois that have it and he doesnt believe me.
I wish doctors would be more open and learn that lyme is here and it is serious!
For some reason you mention the word lyme you get judged and looked at like your crazy!!
I did receive 10 units of blood transfusions 4 yrs ago and this all started a year ago.
I breast fead my oldest boy and had my youngest boy 2 1/2 years ago. So I know there is still studies out there saying that you can get it through mom and baby and sexaul contact. But who knows how I got it but I know I have it and my husband and our boys.
Posted by Jewlbug (Member # 4554) on :
Hi BB,
I'm from IL, and I have Lyme. However, I do think I was infected in northern WI. With that being said, my LLMD is located in IL, and treats tons of Lyme patients...a lot of which believe they were infected in IL.
Your doctor sounds pretty out of the loop, considering that major newspapers, such as the Chicago Tribune, had quite a few articles on Lyme last spring/summer. If I recall correctly, there were even studies done that determined that high percentages of ticks carrying Lyme were found in Cook and Dupage counties.
Please go see a LLMD. If you'd like my LLMD's contact info., please send me a private message.
Wishing wellness, Jewl
Posted by msariess (Member # 7713) on :
Hi, I am in Lower SW Michigan (along the lakeshore) & we have several counties here with confirmed lyme. The Michigan dept of health was MADE to send out notifications to area doctors. (I have a copy of it somewhere)
And, it comes to mind that it was blamed on the deer migration from Illinois.....
Posted by Lymetoo (Member # 743) on :
There have been ALOT of people from IL on this board alone who have Lyme.
I, myself, grew up in Illinois, even tho I no longer live there now; however, I contracted lyme disease or received the distastrous tick bite during the summer of 1990 while taking a hike in Southern Illinois - Carbondale area.
After what seemed like a wonderful hike, I came back to my parents house to discover that I had practically a hundred of the tiniest ticks I'd ever seen crawling all over me. My parents, like monkeys, had to help me check over and extract every tick they could find on me.
Unfortunately, one clever tick was overlooked, right under the fold of my buttock, which was not discovered until several days later, back in DC, when I felt an itchy soreness and embarassingly had to ask a good friend to check it out. It practically took her about an hour to extract the tiny sucker, no matter how anxious I was to get it OUT!!
At the time, she told me I had a big red rash around the site and within two weeks later I fell ill with flu-like symptoms in the middle of July, which my mom noticed and suspected me with lyme. I reported it to the campus doc, where I was attending college, who gave me antibiotics for about two weeks.
I never thought about it much again until years later when I became too sick to hold down a job or run a well-oiled household.
Posted by paige1 (Member # 7486) on :
I too live in Illinois and have tested positive (via Immunosciences) for every co-infection on the panel. I MAY have been bitten up at our summer home just across the Wisconsin border. Regardless, it DOES exist in Illinois.
Jewlbug, who is your dr? Is it Dr. B or Dr. M by chance? Just curious! That's who I go to here locally. Also see Dr. H in Nevada.
Posted by Jewlbug (Member # 4554) on :
Paige,
I sent you a private message.
Jewl
Posted by chroniccosmic (Member # 7789) on :
Hi all,
Count me in. I'm downstate Illinois by where Moose got bit.
Probably got lyme here because that is where the majority of camping was done. My 18 yr. old daughter just got diagnosed with lyme.
I have a friend who often camped with us who got a tick bite but was fortunate enough to see it, have it removed and did abx until he was okay.
My daughter and I have had weird symptoms for years but just figured it out in the last 6 months.
Jewlbug--I looked everywhere for a LLMD in Illinois with no luck, so I travel to Missouri. Can you send me a PM with your doc's name and city?
Yes, there is lyme in Illinois! Posted by hiker53 (Member # 6046) on :
I got Lyme while hiking in Southern Illinois. Also, Bill the Lyme guy got Lyme in Central Illinois (sometimes he posts here) Hiker
Posted by lymex5&counting (Member # 7202) on :
I grew up in Lake County. My parents still live
there. My mother who always had a dx of
Fibromyalgia and her husband dx with MS both have
LYME. He refuses treatment but my mother sees Dr
M at the B clinic. I have many friends there
that I strongly suspect have lyme along with lots
of relatives. But I am sad to say no one wants
to hear it.
Posted by firecop1066 (Member # 6920) on :
Add me to the list I live in Northern Illinois just south of the wisconsin boarder.....I was probably infected at our summer home in northern wisconsin....BUT im a cop Im in the local woods all the time...no telling where the little bugger came from...none the less born and raised right here in Illinois
Posted by NP40 (Member # 6711) on :
As long as you Illinoisans keep charging us Wisconsinites for your toll-roads, we'll keep sending our deer ticks back to your state.
Hey, maybe that Illinois doc is right. Ticks don't carry enough change to make it through your toll-roads, so maybe Illinois doesn't have lyme after all ! Posted by firecop1066 (Member # 6920) on :
hey Mike, you are in rare form tonight why dont you keep your ticks and your packer fans on your side of the state line....we dont want them!!!! clearly we need to post larger signs, and up our tolls....keeping the aforemetioned out....
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