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Bare with me as I am about to ramble and think out loud.
I have always been curious...
I know there are interactive maps where people can notes where they were bitten and give a little summary.
I would be curious to see that idea carried a little farther where you marked on a map where you were bitten, and list only your symptoms and what you tested positive for...
I know our immune systems are all different, but is the lyme from ticks in northwest the same as the lyme strains found in New England? I bet not.
I would carry it a little farther, and look at regions and break down how the symptoms from one region differ from another.
On a personal level...I was bit in northern Minnesota. Most of my symptoms have always been neuro... I have never been tested for any coinffections, yet I treat for them.
I wonder if 10 people got bit in northern Minnesota, if their symptoms and inffections would be similar to eachother....yet differ from a group of 10 individuals infected out in Rhode Island or something...?
Just something I have always wondered. It would be nice if this information was documented by the ILADS or something....so when an LLMD asks where you were infected, they could maybe pull up a database of info from others infected in that region and have a better idea of how to treat you.
Eh...that is all.
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I think there is a difference, but it has never been documented (that I have seen).
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