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Congressman Frank Wolf is hosting a Lyme Disease Awareness and Education Forum on August 5 at 7:00 pm at the Loudoun County School Board Office in Ashburn. Officials from both the Loudoun and Fairfax Public Health Departments will speak, but more importantly for us, a local lyme literate doctor will speak about the treatment standards.
Please come if you are in the vicinity, and encourage your friends, family and neighbors to come. Congressman Wolf is acting on his sincere concern about this issue. If we fill the auditorium, perhaps he will be inspired to continue to actively support our need for research and education.
You can get more information and directions at: www.wolf.house.govPosts: 422 | From Herndon, Virginia | Registered: Oct 2005
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I will try and make it, but I really think Virginia is very backwards about Lyme and a lot of things in general. My Northern Virginia primary care doctor who I lost all respect for said that since my western blot was negative, no treatment was needed. She did not even prescribe any antibiotics even though I had classic lyme symptoms. I am going to a LLMD now. If it is going to bring more awareness for Lyme that is great, but what is needed is for doctors and insurance companies to stop being ignorant about this disease.
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I couldn't agree more! But we aren't in a good position to influence doctors and insurance companies directly, except individually; and that is a slow process. What we hope to do is get our senators and representatives, who DO have power and influence, to effect the necessary changes for us, through hearings and ultimately legislation. AG Blumenthal made a huge step in achieving this. There really is political interest in this issue.
But then, there is the goal of public awareness. Our neighbor took two deer ticks off of her son this summer. Two different pediatricians refused to give him prophylactic treatment, even though she told him the tick we removed from our daughter tested positive for borrelia. I think that when people hear the doctor who is speaking at this forum say that he treats prophylactically and why, they will be better able to stand up to their doctors.
I have never heard of as many tick bites as I have this year in our area. We have definitely had a bumper crop of the little critters!
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