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I had unprotected sex 7 months ago. Like 1 night stand. I really thought I got the Clap. Got STD tested and was clean. But if they missed chlamydia I could of developed Reiter's Syndrome. It seems very plausible at this point.
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Judie
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That's a possibility that you can have other infections. I have 14 infections from various sources.
You had several bulls-eye rashes and that's 100% confirmation of being exposed to Lyme. It's more accurate than a blood test.
When the immune system is compromised, you start collecting infections.
I have no idea of the accuracy of STD tests.
If it was missed, it's just more proof that these tests are useless and you need a clinical diagnosis.
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TF
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Lyme disease supresses the immune system, like AIDS. So once you have had lyme for a while, you will get many other infections also and old infections can reactivate.
However, it usually takes about 1 year for that to happen. See what Burrascano says:
"A very important issue is the definition of “Chronic Lyme Disease”. Based on my clinical data and the latest published information, I offer the following definition. To be said to have chronic LB, these three criteria must be present:
1. Illness present for at least one year (this is approximately when immune breakdown attains clinically significant levels).
. . . Chronic Lyme is an altogether different illness than earlier stages, mainly because of the inhibitory effect on the immune system. . . Apparently, in early infections, before extensive damage to the immune system has occurred, if the germ load of the co-infectors is low, and the Lyme is treated, many of the other ticktransmitted microbes can be contained and eliminated by the immune system. However, in the chronic patient, because of the inhibited defenses, the individual components of the co-infection are now active enough so that they too add to features of the illness and must be treated. In addition, many latent infections which may have pre-dated the tick bite, for example herpes viruses, can reactivate, thus adding to the illness.
An unfortunate corollary is that serologic tests can become less sensitive as the infections progress, obviously because of the decreased immune response upon which these tests are based." (pages 3-4)
"Chronic LB infections are known to suppress the immune system and can decrease the quantity of the CD-57 subset of the natural killer cells. As in HIV infection, where abnormally low T-cell counts are routinely used as a marker of how active that infection is, in LB we can use the degree of decrease of the CD-57 count to indicate how active the Lyme infection is and whether, after treatment ends, a relapse is likely to occur." (page 8)
I have also found that the more a person educates themselves about lyme disease, the further back they can see lyme symptoms in their life.
Lyme can be episodic at first. So, if in the past year you had strange episodes of weakness or illness that came and left on their own, that can be evidence of early lyme disease.
I agree that your bulls eye rashes are proof positive of lyme disease. But, you could have gotten the lyme long before you got those rashes. Often, we get no rash with our first tick bite that gives us lyme. Then, we get another tick bite and the rash or rashes appear. Think about it and see what you come up with.
I have read and my lyme doctor agrees that once you have lyme, the next time you get bitten by a tick with lyme, you will definitely get a rash and you will get a rash each time you get lyme after that.
The first time you get lyme, you often do not get a rash. Only about half of all people get a rash with their first encounter with lyme disease.
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canefan17
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Good post TF
Very useful info
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