Ok, I guess you can give lyme through a blood transfusion. Can lyme be sexually transmitted? Are there any other ways lyme can be spread person to person besides a straight up blood transfusion?
Posted by SForsgren (Member # 7686) on :
Search the archives here. This question has been discussed so many times that it may not generate much interest again....
Posted by starrant (Member # 10149) on :
so is it yes, no, or we don't know???
Posted by Lymetoo (Member # 743) on :
It's that there's no PROOF it can be transmitted that way. I've heard several people here who believe they gave it to a spouse or got it from a spouse.
It's a hard thing to prove since the partner may have been bitten by a tick and not have known it.
Borreliosis [lyme] is a spirochete. Syphilis is caused by a spirochete. That in itself should speak to you.
I would say, be careful!!
Posted by 8man12 (Member # 7664) on :
I WOULD SAY there are far more couples that only 1 has lyme,so i would say no.Plus dont know if it makes sense,but my lyme doctor said,i would at the most be giving he like a small vaccine. So guess she wont catch lyme even in the woods.
Posted by starrant (Member # 10149) on :
Thanks for the timely replies everyone!
[ 31. January 2007, 09:46 AM: Message edited by: starrant ]
Posted by Pa Lymie (Member # 11020) on :
I'm not sure but is is something i always worry about - sure doesn't help my sex drive. but I would feel terrible if it were to happen.
Posted by flossie (Member # 3384) on :
unfortunately, i hate to report that every lyme literate doc i know (and that's quite a few) either think sexual transmission is very likely or definitely happening. which doesn't mean it happens all the time, but that it can.
the idea that coming into contact with live bacteria would act as a vvaccine is perposterous. that doc doesn't know what she/he's talking about, at least in this regard. (although if it were true, i'd glady help out administering the 'vaccine'... for the good of mankind of course).
please take precautions. i see many people denying that it's possible, without proof, perhaps because they don't want to deal with the implications -- emotional, logistic, condoms, etc. i was one of those people at first. my boyfriend and i decided that sexual transmission was just too crazy and if it were true everyone would be telling us about it. so we didn't use condoms after he got sick, even though we knew the bacteria was closely related to syphilis. lo and behold, soon afterwards i had precisely the same 5 co-infections and strains of lyme as he did. i never hiked or camped with him, was much less symptomatic, and had cervical symptoms (bad paps) from the time he got sick until the time i went on antibiotics and we started using condoms. so... my advice? play it safe and assume it is, until someone does some freakin' research and we know for sure.
best, flossie
Posted by 5dana8 (Member # 7935) on :
hope this helps Blessings Dana
Posted by imanurse (Member # 7022) on :
quote:Originally posted by starrant: Reading the last post, I guess I need to have sex as much as possible to give everyone a lyme vaccine!
I hope you are joking. I personally feel it is very irresponsible to have unprotected sex when you have a disease that 'could' infect others. Pehaps you want to go to jail like those that knowingly infected others with HIV.
Posted by starrant (Member # 10149) on :
I was definetely joking. I still haven't even offically had sex yet.
Posted by starrant (Member # 10149) on :
Ok, so the bottom line is Lyme disease may very well be a STD, and I am assumming that a woman infected with lyme could pass it to an unborn child, meaning that none of should ever have unprotected sex or have children unless we want more soules to live a tortuourous existence.
I would say God is clearly showing His wrath against America!
Posted by Blackstone (Member # 9453) on :
quote:Originally posted by starrant: Ok, so the bottom line is Lyme disease may very well be a STD, and I am assumming that a woman infected with lyme could pass it to an unborn child, meaning that none of should ever have unprotected sex or have children unless we want more soules to live a tortuourous existence.
I would say God is clearly showing His wrath against America!
I really, really hope that last bit is sarcasm...
Anyhow... my LLMD doesn't feel that Lyme is sexually transmitted. He has seen a large amount of lyme patients that have spouses that are not infected, and even if they were exposed and reactant to some IgeneX band, have no symptoms. With as endemic as Lyme is, its very very difficult to make the assertion that someone was infected from their spouse directly, rather than picking up a tick bite somewhere (spouses typically do things together outdoors, or both live in an area where ticks are prevalent) Some people, including doctors are using Syphilis' transmission to give the argument that Lyme is sexually transmitted. However, others doctors contend that just because there is a spirochete, doesn't immediately equal sexual transmission. Leptospirosis, for instance, is a spirochete that is not able to be sexually transmitted. Congenital and blood transmission is different then sexual for a number of reasons, as well.
Posted by starrant (Member # 10149) on :
quote: I really, really hope that last bit is sarcasm...
Nope, afterall this is the same God who will burn 70% or more of the human population in the Lake of Fire forever, unless we believe in Jesus. As least that is what most Christians believe. Not an attack on a Faith, just using some logic into how ridiculous I think it is that God would do this to many souls. I myself do believe in Jesus, but feel his message has been twisted with the introduction of infinite Hell. If you believe God will do this to the majority of mankind, than I am not sarcastic at all in saying that God could be showing His wrath against America for our "pervertevness".
Posted by treepatrol (Member # 4117) on :
quote:Originally posted by 8man12: I WOULD SAY there are far more couples that only 1 has lyme,so i would say no.Plus dont know if it makes sense,but my lyme doctor said,i would at the most be giving he like a small vaccine. So guess she wont catch lyme even in the woods.
Imho that Dr is wrong vaccine sheeshhhhhhhh
One spirochete will infect you if it isnt caught by immune system fast enough, which they ->spirochetes can also evade and attack.
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