Topic: collection of Lyme and Schizophrenia links (2/07 UPDATE on friend!)
SunRa
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Back in February I had posted asking about the connection between Lyme and Schizophrenia. Thank you to everyone who contributed articles and personal stories.
It took me a while, but I finally put together a list of links and sent it to my friend whose sister has been recently dx'd with Schizophrenia.
I wanted to post my collection of articles and personal stories here hoping it would help others looking into this. (mind you this isnt even everything I found!)
Lyme Disease: A Neuropsychiatric Illness By Brian A. Fallon, M.D., M.P.H., and Jenifer A. Nields, M.D.� "A broad range of psychiatric reactions have been associated with Lyme disease including paranoia, dementia, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, panic attacks, major depression, anorexia nervosa, and OCD..." http://www.angelfire.com/biz/romarkaraoke/lymeart.html
``At first Lyme disease was thought to be mainly an arthritic illness,'' Fallon says, ``but it has become clear that some of its most serious symptoms are neurological and psychiatric.'' Crime Times - Lyme as cause of violent behaviour� http://216.117.159.91/crimetimes/99b/w99bp11.htm
Brain Scans Distinguish Lyme Disease From Primary Psychiatric Disorders "The findings are important since many people with Lyme disease do not exhibit the classic rash and flu-like symptoms but later experience secondary symptoms such as depression, panic attacks, paranoia, personality changes, mood swings, attention problems or short-term memory loss. These symptoms can be easily mistaken for primary psychiatric disorders, especially the when patient's clinical presentation does not include joint swelling or Bell's palsy -- two of the more commonly recognized signs of Lyme disease -- and when standard laboratory tests for the disease prove inconclusive, which is not infrequently the case in chronic Lyme disease." http://www.pslgroup.com/dg/3fc1a.htm
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TX Lyme Mom
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Wow, this one's another "keeper". We need to be sure that it doesn't get lost when the Moderators and Administrators eliminate old topics which have out-of-date datelines.
Since you've worked so hard to compile it, may I suggest that you see that it's pulled back up to the top again once every 6 mos. or so -- unless of course someone else does a search and finds it and does so. Otherwise, it might be deleted if its dateline isn't updated once in a while.
BTW, a couple of your links aren't "clickable". I'm not sure how this might have happened, but maybe you can take another look at it and "fix" them for us.
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SunRa
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thanks lymesux wow, exactly a year later, someone else I know is dx'd with schizophrenia - again, I'm skeptical of her dx.
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SunRa
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up for one of my closest friends. Thankfully her family is finally looking into TBDs as a possibility. Right now she is very unstable. Please pray.
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A keeper. Even though I have yet to read the material on these links. I have read some years ago, but was to piqued by Sx to explore these links
Once, in an undergraduate psych. class, one student,apparently well versed in the schizophrenias, stated that the "...parents of schizophrenics are not themselves schizophrenic..."
If this is true, then this means something significant.
R.D.Laing gives an excellent phenomenological account of schizophrenia(s), best I recall from a "hundered years ago"
SunRa
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UPDATE on my close friend who was dx'd with schizophrenia (a year after I did all this research for another friend!).
After many trips to the psych ward and getting worse and worse, she finally took my advice and went to an LLMD. She tested + for Lyme.
She's been on abx for several months and although she initially felt worse, she is now improving tremendously. She's been having less and less hallucinations and paranoia. her psychiatrist has even changed her diagnosis from schizophrenia to anxiety disorder!
I hope this encourages those with similar psych symptoms to pursue lyme and other TBDs as possible causes. It's a rough road, but relief is possible!
(FYI: I think many of the links above no longer work)
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northstar
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SunRa,
That is the most beautiful outcome of our own lyme experience, i.e. to be able to help someone else.
And you have been able to do it.
That is just great !
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valymemom
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Amazing! Thank you for you diligence.
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Andie333
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SunRa,
This is an extraordinary story. I'm so glad for you and for your friend that she's been able to get an accurate diagnosis and, finallyh, able to get help!
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Melanie, you're a star! Thanks, have to take a look tomorrow as too tired and going to bed now though.
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SunRa
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hi melanie and DLL
unfortunately most of these links no longer work. when I compiled it I really wish I had copied the whole threads and articles
A lot of those articles can still be found online though..and the abstracts should still work.
when i'm feeling a bit better, I'll go through and edit it.
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Cass A
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This is SOOOO very valuable!!
Yet another reason to be wary of psychiatrists! They won't look for real diseases most of the time and are content to write Rx for lots of expensive and damaging psych drugs, often in "cocktails" of 3 or more at a time!!
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