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Lyme disaese is understood. its not controversial. and most doctors are able to treat it. I.E. infectious disease doctors?
I personally do believe. someday. it WILL happen. Lyme is such a huge epidemic right now. and it keeps happening more and more everyday. people be diagnosed with other illnesses are finding out they have lyme and are getting treated and better. alot of people are fighting this. rallying. alot of people are really making a stand for this.
I certainly hope that it will become more mainstream and understood because its rediculous. My mother cant even falthom it. She thinks is ludicrous that a disease so common, so easy to get and so disabling can be so misunderstood and controversial. and I agree its rediculous
its probably one of the biggest medical crisises in history. its definatly the most of this generation.
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- I would not hold your breath but it is a good hope to hold as you go ahead do what you need to do to get better. -
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Maybe in 50 or 100 years -- but probably not sooner. And I am generally an optimistic person -- hubby gets aggravated at me because I am so much more optimisitic than he is.
Changes in medicine come very slowly -- just look at the history of ulcers and h pylori for example -- and that wasn't half as controversial as tickborne diseases.
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So many people walking around with lyme and don't know it. The numbers are steadily growing
The lid just has to blow off this
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You would think that it would become more accepted, but I doubt it will happen anytime soon.
Like Bea, I am an optimist, but I don't see much room for optimism in this case.
There are too many different presentations of it and there isn't a clear cut treatment that works for everyone, so it is too easy to think it is different things. Instead, it will be called fibro, CFS, mental illness, etc.
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There is too much money stopping the truth from ever being told. Big Pharma loves that many of us have to pay out of pocket since we end up paying more that way, and Big Pharma has a lot of money! They can control a lot of the medical community and even have a huge say in what is written in college text books.
If we have any major progress in these disease, it will come out of left field, such as from stem cell research. There are some amazing things coming out of stem cell research so we shall see. However, it is tough to ever put human needs in front of moneu needs in a capitalist society. Money and greed feed the beast, not human needs.
There is a lot more profit in keeping people sick than getting them well. That is at the root of a lot of this.
What diseases have we solved? What will we solve? Don't count on much in our current system.
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Yes. The issue is that there is a US government coverup of the realities of Lyme Disease. There is a specific group of people deliberately causing our problems, and we need to expose them before we can make any progress.
Fortunately, they've given us much of what we need in order to do this.
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