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A lot of people believe that people can get lyme from other lymies through unprotected intercourse...
I'm just curious, if you are diagnosed with lyme and your spouse (or significant other) doesn't have any lyme sympotoms, would you insist getting her/him diagnosed and treated?
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but a lot of people believe that lyme is transferrable via unprotected intercourse...I haven't really talked to an LLMD about this yet, just want to hear your opinions and experiences...
Thanks!!
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I encouraged my husband to get tested, as my neighbor and I were both dx. with Lyme.
However, I believe our exposure is somehow related to living outside, without electricity, for 34 days following Hurricane Katrina.
My husband had a positive Elisa. Am awaiting Igenex results.
Of course now I tell him he gave it to me and he tells me I gave it to him. A little humor goes a long way in our house.
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I was infected before I was married. I've been married 22 years, and my husband has no symptoms.
It's my understanding that we are treating to eliminate symptoms, that we cannot completely eradicate the disease if we've had it a long time. So, it wouldn't make sense to treat someone with no symptoms.
Now, I think my sisters would benefit from being tested ... they were the ones who were in the same place as I was at the time of exposure, and both have certain "issues".
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I have had lyme for 40+ years. Been married for 20 years, my husband also has it, he is a hunter. Not sure if he got it from me or hunting.
He just started showing symptoms after I was diagnosed or maybe we just happen to recognize them in him along with all my kids. He did get worse after my lyme became "active". (I was in and out of remission for years)
So who knows.... I believe half the population has it and if you go to the east coast (NY, Conn, Mass) 80 - 90% of the population has it! You can't walk into a store there without seeing half the people in wheelchairs, caring canes, having tremors, speech problems and so on......
And the stupid thing is, because everyone is the same, they all think its "normal".
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Lyme doesn't seem to be as sexually- transmissable as some diseases are, but there are many experts who believe it is sexually transmissable, and this certainly seems quite possible, lyme being a blood disease caused by a spirochete, which is uncomfortably similar to the bacterium that causes syphilis, and which has at least been found in the sperm of infected males. The co-infections, though, are probably not often sexually transmitted. But they are still blood infections, so it might be possible that they sometimes are. (sexually transmitted). DaveS
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Oh, sorry- I see Cave already gave a much more comeplete reply to your question! DS
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