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I saw a lab testing for RH Neg. blood and Lyme. I seem to attract ticks, 9 bites (that I know of) and 4 x infected, positive for 29 yrs. I stay clear of tick infested areas...they find me.
I could not participate in the study because I just had thyroid cancer, but I wonder if they are checking a coorelation between the pharamones and RH Neg. blood types.
Are you Neg. A, B or O; or AB? How many time have you been bite/infected?
Just very curious. Thank you, Shar
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I forget my letter but I am RH negative too...I've often wondered if that had something to do with the Lyme...hmmm
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RH negative here, B type! Carry the little card!
What study???
Michelle
Oh, and bitten as a child more times than I can remember (grew up in woods in Virginia), then as an adult in woods in California, most recently several years ago with EM rash)
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Is "negative" different than "Rh negative"?
I am B negative , but not sure about the Rh part.
robi
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I'm O negative and grew up in a rural area of Southern Illinois and ticks were everywhere. Part of life on a farm, they were on the kids, the dogs. Heck, picking them off was practically a pasttime. No one was freaked out about them at that time. Probably got bit a bunch as a kid and don't have a clue when I contracted Lyme. Didn't have a rash that I recall. Tracing symptoms back, I got real sick about 7-8 years ago. Posts: 460 | From Illinois | Registered: Aug 2005
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I not sure about the RH/negative. I should have looked that up as well, sorry. I also deleted the specific test info once I found out I had cancer and could not participate. But, there are many studies being done. Several at www.life-serta.com They are not testing specificly neg/Lyme, but are collecting for Negative blood and Lyme, Ebstein Barr and many others. You can also do a search on Lyme disease lab. studies and testing. I think that might be how I found them. I really wonder about our pharamones??? Thanks for your postings.
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"Shar," I'm RH Negative, type O. Do you have any more info. on this study? I'd be interested in finding out more. Please let me (us) know. Robin
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I'm A negative.
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Interesting...I'm A-negative, my husband is A-positive...together we have the RH factor, and, as I understand could be a problem with pregnancy, however, not the first, but those after. Confusing...
My first I lost, my second gave us our first-born son, and due to him being born jauntice, he had to be closely monitored. But, he was fine and is now 41.
That's all I know about the RH factor, however, doesn't have anything to do with Lyme. There is good info on the net regarding the RH factor though.
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I'm O negative.
While I have never actually seen a tick on me, I've always gotten bitten more than anyone around me. I can be with a group of people and be the only one being bit.
(I can't even tell you when my first exposure was. It took a lot of years and bazillions of bites for my body to just stop fighting. My last exposure before getting too sick to function was from multiple flea bites from a house infested with fleas and mice in a wooded lot full of deer.)
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I have something unusual to share....for years i never ever got a reaction to a mosquito bite...in fact they rarely ever bit me...(my dad is still like this)...the joke used to be that our blood was sour....then all of a sudden one year things changed and i started getting bit a lot. Its like my blood chemistry changed somehow? I am A+ though and havent been diagnosed yet.... i do think certain people get bit more then others based on the story i just shared.
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I am O+ but I have never been bitten by a tick (that I'm aware of).
I have gotten my fair share of flea and mosquito bites though, although in most recent years I have hardly gotten any mosquito bites.
I am also fascinated by what might cause our blood to be attractive to the little buggies. Hmmm.
Alison
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I am O- the universal donor. I see signs at the blood banks always asking for O- blood but with me they would be asking for trouble
I am 46 and always had alot of tick bites growing up in TX. When I had my son at 19, I had to get the RH factor shot because he is +blood.
I always wondering if that set me up for a autoimmune problem (which I have) because I got his foreign blood in my body. And no telling what was in that shot 27yrs ago Good question
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