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The story of Brooke the probably undiagnosed Lymie addicted to pain killers.
Her doctors do not believe in her positive Lyme test results nor does she.
I saw the show before. I wrote to her pain management doctor to tell him maybe they should pay attention to her positive Lyme test results and I received no answer.
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Angela,
The story of Brooke....?
Should anyone know her around here?
What do you mean by "PROBABLY UNDIAGNOSED" lymie addicted to pain killers.
I would be interested in hearing her story, Is there a place on lymenet where I can search for her story?
I did'nt see her story cuz I was watching something else on the tube. I was'nt here earlier to catch your post to watch it tonight.
I am interested however....anymore of her story around here?
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Brooke is the subject of the intervention tonight on A&E. She is addicted to pain pills. She has arthritis pain and has had a positive Lyme test but her doctors do not believe she has Lyme disease nor does she so she is not treated for LD.
The show ends with a pain management doctor saying she has "real pain" and she goes off to a clinic to learn to manage her pain with "better drugs" if I recall correctly.
I bet they might have something about the show on A&E's website.
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``Brooke, 26, was a beautiful teenager with a magnetic personality. An elite gymnast on the cheerleading squad, she looked forward to a successful and athletic life.
But tragedy struck in her senior year when she was crippled by Still's disease, an early form of rheumatoid arthritis.
Her doctors prescribed narcotics to ease her pain, but Brooke soon became addicted. Her heartbroken family has sought new treatments to help Brooke, but she denies she's an addict. Now her family has turned in desperation to their last hope--an intervention.''
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I just watched it. I was thinking all the time,sounds like lyme to me. And sure enough thats what it is. They focused more on the addiction than the lyme. The Dad did say something about you can cure lyme like it would be so easy. I hated the way the family treated her. Then they had this big awakening at the intervention as now we know how much pain she is in. I wonder how it's really turning out. They did say she had knee surgery. Would sure love to talk to her. It was very sad.I could really relate.
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Angelica
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The first time I viewed this show they had not treated her for Lyme disease nor did it appear they would.
Now they say she has been treated for Lyme disease.
I hope they treated her long enough. I hope they gave her more then three weeks of Doxy but after the bad guidance she received from her first doctors it makes you wonder.
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You can't really depend on the mainstream media to have any sense of reality... especially when it comes to issues dealing with health.
It's all controlled by the drug industry. They want people to be ill & misinformed since they make money off of it.
Most countries do not allow commercials for prescription drugs on TV. Since they spend big bucks advertising, they adjust the content to comply with the advertisers.
There are alot of other reasons why there is so much Lyme disinformation...
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I just watched the youtube episodes Angelica posted. Very tragic. She went to rehab last fall for three months, so I guess no one knows what's going on with her now?
I think Lyme patients need to do a Lyme intervention on her behalf and how could this be done? We would need to know her last name, to try to reach her family in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
There is a Lyme support group listed that meets in Tulsa, with a contact person who could maybe help with the contact effort.
She has an obvious case of Lyme disease and needs decent treatment for it.
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Angelica
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Robin read my post above. The latest showing tonight's said at the end she has now been treated for Lyme disease. We just don't know how by who or for how long.
I felt the same way you did when I first viewed the show and they did not have her treated for Lyme disease.
After viewing the first show I found the company Dr. Rand works for her pain management doctor and I sent him an email saying I thought she had Lyme disease and needed treatment.
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Hi Angelica - was the show that was on tonight different than the part 5 episode on youtube? Since the part 5 ends with the statement that her doctors do not agree on her diagnosis.
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What I did during Lymenet vacation time: I called the Bay Recovery Centers in San Diego, where Brook was "treated", whatever that means, to discuss recognition/treatment of Lyme disease and coinfections.
I've been to a couple pain centers. They can't do anything for Lyme patients' pain unless the infection gets recognized for what it is and treated. I was completely missed. And I imagine most are.
Numbers: 858-274-6633. 858-490-3460. 1-800-375-7263.
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Angelica
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Robin this last showing ended differently then the first time I watched it months ago on A&E. I have not watched in on youtube.
At the very end of this show it said she had now been treated for Lyme disease. I still would like to know by who how and for how long. I hope she was not treated by a infectious disease duck.
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