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Does anyone know if the amish are having problems with lyme? Everyone I talk to from western Chester county either has lyme or knows people with lyme. I know the amish keep to themselves, but you would think they would be infected at a higher rate because they live off the land. I googled it and can't really find any info. Just wondering if anyone knows anything about this. Mayby we just don't here about it or mayby they just don't get it?
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Dr. G B has a Mennonite with Lyme in one of his videos- or is she Amish>? One of the two- he says they respond more quickly to abx and get better fast- but that their sick are often left in rooms and ignored rather than treated in the past-
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quote:Amish>? One of the two- he says they respond more quickly to abx and get better fast
I would think, and this is a guess, that they get better fast because the eat an EXTREMELY healthy diet.
And I don't mean a salad at McDOnalds. I mean food from the land, high in nutrients and absent of processing.
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I talked to a amish girl at a store they owned a four years ago and asked her the standard questions about her people who were loggers are they getting ticks on them her reply was yes. Reason I asked her was her family had had some trouble with symptoms similar to mine and she herself had bruising for no reason waking up with new ones everyday I asked her? your not being hit are you? she said oh no I have been getting bruising all my life even when awakeing in the mornings Ill have a new one on me somewhere I said does anyone in your family have bruising or other symptoms all my brothers and dad have aching and soreness and sometimes they have fevers I said how about joint pain she said yes me too they all have had joint pain in different joints over the years..
I told her you need to get checked by LLMD or a Dr who understands Lyme Disease I said you and your family may all be infected and you may have some coinfection that can cause the bruising you may have been born with it. She said she would tell her mother and father. She was serous I hope she pursued it.
It was quite a distance from where I live that was 4 years ago.
So I would say they are having trouble with them also.
That is over by luthersburg pa
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As to whether they get lyme, I'm sure they do. Sad that many of them in these parts go to the original GP who told me I had CFS. It's what he's likely telling them too. Posts: 867 | From PA | Registered: Jan 2006
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An acquaintance from a different Lyme board went to an Amish religious healing service. The person leading the service said they have many Lyme patients in their community.
I would think as others said, because of the close-knit, private aspect of the Amish community, we may never know the details, or perhaps there are only certain doctors they will see.
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A study was done several years ago by ducks trying to prove that Fibromyalgia was a psychiatric problem due to the pressures on women in modern society.
They decided to study the Amish to see if they got Fibro. They expected to find they did not. What they actually found was that Fibro rates were higher among the Amish than among the non-Amish, blowing their theory out of the water, but fitting right in with Lyme.
The reason I am bringing this up is because many people dx'd with Fibro really have Lyme (Most, IMO).
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quote:Originally posted by klutzo: A study was done several years ago by ducks trying to prove that Fibromyalgia was a psychiatric problem due to the pressures on women in modern society.
They decided to study the Amish to see if they got Fibro. They expected to find they did not. What they actually found was that Fibro rates were higher among the Amish than among the non-Amish, blowing their theory out of the water, but fitting right in with Lyme.
The reason I am bringing this up is because many people dx'd with Fibro really have Lyme (Most, IMO).
Klutzo
The reason I am bringing this up is because many people dx'd with Fibro really have Lyme
I agree some sort of lyme + another infection.
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When hubby and I were stuck in Indiana I remember reading a local smalltown newspaper. This paper had an Amish columnist. She reported that a relative (nephew maybe) was being treated in Mexico for Lyme.
Obviously some of the Amish travel to alternative docs just the same as the rest of us. Hubby's PCP was an ACAM doc and extremely expensive -- he was treating a few Amish patients for cancer. I think the Amish are more open to being treated with herbs and nutrition than to meds.
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