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Hi everyone! I'm a newbie to Lymenet Long story short:
EM Rash Spring 1999 In IL
Month later secondary rash
Went to family duck with list of symptoms and rash ..per duck- must consider bite lyme infected (was given no abx) because Elisa was neg! ( Dumb, Dumb)
He said that I would be fine and sent me on my merry way- I trusted that he knew what he was doing! (big mistake)
Year later- Thought I was going to die because of all kinds of symptoms blah blah blah you all know that story.
Duck gives me 1mth of abx-still sick numerous neg elisa's.
Sent to 2,3,4 duck all say no LD- you have Fibro!
2001 Found wonderful Dr. In Mo. - Positive Western blot!!! (Finally) Now getting somewhere!
2001-2004 not getting better and ran out of $$ no longer afford Dr. In Mo.
Present-Now I have no job (that means no ins) and I just moved to KY to be with family.
I'm feeling really sick any suggestions on what I can do naturally such as vitamins until I get a job and Ins so I can go back to wonderful Dr.?
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HEY!)!)*! My beloved Grandma was from Kentucky and brought me up reading The LIttle Colonel series!! WELCOME*)!*!)!
You guys have Babesia Divergens in Kentucky so I would just make sure to get tested for that!!!
Welcome to LymeNet*)!! Best Newcomer Wishes, Sarah
1: N Engl J Med. 2002 Aug 29;347(9):697-8.Links Acute babesiosis caused by Babesia divergens in a resident of Kentucky.Beattie JF, Michelson ML, Holman PJ. PMID: 12200568 [
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Oh- another suggestioN!!! Intro yourself or ask any medical questions in the MEDICAL section because MOSt peopple who read LYmeNet ONLY read the medical section- it is HIGH Traffic- Gen Support is much less read*)!*)!*)!
So you are not being ignored, just barely seen in the first place if you just post here)*!)!
Sincerely Welcome, Sarah
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Thank you Sarah! I'm actually from IL and that is where I got LD I just moved to Ky to be with family.
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Just wanted to say welcome. I too am a transplanted Illinois gal. There aren't too many of us here, so when I see a new lymie I always say hey.
Rene
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From IL!*)!!! WELL, if you have gone to Wisconsin on holiday you should know they have a seronegative strain of Lyme there- Kettle Forest strain!!! but there is definitely Lyme in Illinois*)!!!
And THANK YOU!*)*)! because looking this up for you revealed- what the heck- they have BORRELIA BISSETTI in ILLINOIS!!! That is the California strain!! Or formerly thought of as Californian strain I guess!!! WOW! I didn't know that!!! So you can test negative to standard tests because of that strain- toO!!!
Thank you!!! And welcome again- even if you AREN'T a true Kentuckian!!! Sincerely, Sarah
1: Emerg Infect Dis. 2006 Jun;12(6):1039-41.Links
Borrelia burgdorferi in Ixodes scapularis ticks, Chicago area.
Jobe DA, Lovrich SD, Nelson JA, Velat TC, Anchor C, Koeune T, Martin SA Jr. PMID: 16752480
Molecular characterization of Borrelia spp. isolates from greater metropolitan Chicago reveals the presence of Borrelia bissettii. Preliminary report.
Picken RN, Picken MM. Loyola University Medical Center, Department of Pathology, Maywood, Illinois 60153, USA.
Lyme Disease in the US is concentrated in three endemic areas: the Northeast, the upper mid-West, and the Pacific coast. In the mid-West, the range of Lyme disease has expanded to include large parts of Wisconsin and Minnesota. Despite its proximity to the mid-Western focus, Illinois, so far, has not been considered an endemic area. However, more recent data suggest that this situation may be changing. Also, the extent of borrelial diversity in the mid-West remains largely unexplored. Here, we present preliminary results on the molecular characterization of Borrelia isolates from rodents captured in Cook and Lake Counties, both of which are parts of the greater metropolitan Chicago area in Illinois. We investigated the rodent reservoir present in forested areas of suburban Chicago in order to determine the frequency of infection with the Lyme disease agent(s) by culture isolation of Borrelia spirochetes (Picken et al., unpublished). Rodent isolates of Borrelia were identified to the species level by genetic characterization. In total, 19 isolates were obtained over 3 years from NW Cook Co. and Lake Co. Pulsed-field gel electrophoretic analysis of Mlul digested DNA from these isolates showed macrorestriction patterns similar to that of the Californian isolate, strain DN127 (PF type I), New York isolate strain 25015 (PF type II), or a variant of the latter (PF type III). Sequence data generated from the rrf(5S)-rrl(23S) intergenic spacer region of the ribosomal RNA gene cluster confirmed the identity of all the Chicago isolates studied to date as B. bissettii. These strains are unlike our previous Borrelia isolates from NW Illinois and Wisconsin. In addition, there was a predominant association of B. bissettii infection with pratal rodent species such as Microtus pennsylvanicus and Zapus hudsonius. The relationship of this novel enzootic focus to the established mid-Western endemic focus of Lyme disease remains to be elucidated. The geographic range and reservoir diversity of this organism may have hitherto been underestimated.
PMID: 11075925
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