Melissanovella posted this message in (seeking a doctor). Maybe she'll get a response if I post it here. Steve
This is very sad... the reason I joined this site today is to find a Lyme literate doc in NJ. I am from South Jersey, where lyme is rampant.
When I got my first doxy prescription filled at the CVS two years ago, she said she had seen the number of scripts for this antibiotic quadruple during that summer.
I seriously do not know what to do. I know this might sound a bit off topic, but I am close to completing my doctorate of nursing in informatics...
I am truly about to become a nurse practitioner so that I can treat lyme disease... IT IS DESPICABLE that we have to suffer for many years, and be told by so many doctors THAT WE DON'T HAVE LYME DISEASE.
My husband had it, both of my neighbors have it (on either side of my house), and we are surrounded by woods and deer literally run through my yard on a daily basis.
I tested positive via western blot 2 years ago, got treated and felt better. Last summer found another tick on me, and my doctor gave me one pill (doxy) saying that it is effective when you first find the tick, to only have to take one pill. ????
A year later, I have migratory arthritis, which randomly causes me pain in either my knee(s), pelvis, ribs, ankles, hips, etc.
It is especially terrible AFTER I exercise (which I have done 3-4 times per week for years.
I am truly at my wits end... and am getting a repeat Western blot (my doc actually thinks its lyme because of the migratory joint pain), but am afraid that it will come back negative. Ok, sorry for taking too much space typing this....
the point I was trying to get to is that SOMEBODY NEEDS TO HELP IN THE NJ AND PA AREAS -- as lyme is endemic here.
Posted by hopingandpraying (Member # 9256) on :
Thanks, Steve.
I already sent her a pm with names of LLMDs for PA, MD & CT.