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Holy Moley! That is a HUGE list!! Thank you!!
And thank you also for explaining more about Zebras.
Very overwhelming to think about.
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Aniek
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Never heard of it, so I did a google search. This is from medterms.net
"Definition of Zebra
Zebra: The term "zebra" in medicine does not refer to the striped African animal but to an unlikely diagnostic possibility. It comes from an old saying in teaching medical students about how to think logically in regard to the differential diagnosis: "When you hear hoof beats, think of horses, not zebras."
For example, when someone develops a mild transient cough, tuberculosis is a "zebra." For another example, following the discovery of West Nile fever in New York City in September, 1999, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned doctors to expect more infectious disease "zebras" (diseases due to rare microbes)."
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bettyg
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i thouht you were talking about b/w version zebra!
interesting thread! mom had one of these...carcinoid tumor cancer!
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Ha, ha...my PC called me a 'Zebra' when I first presented to her w/ all the reconizable Lyme Disease symptoms.
This duck just shook her feathers and kept sending me out to specialist who didn't have a clue as what the culprit was.
Finally an ortho surgeon told me it was undiagnosed LD that was causing all my zebra like symptoms!
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randibear
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yep, i've been told by my primary that i'm his "little zebra". he told me long ago to "think horses not zebras" so it became a joke.
well, it was funny until i found out i had lyme.
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shazdancer
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Since 2002, Lyme cases reported to the CDC have averaged to over 20,000 cases per year. And the CDC admits that actual cases can far exceed that.
That doesn't sound like a zebra to me. It sounds more like the doc can't identify hoofbeats.
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