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so...i am trying to decide whether to stop medication for a month this summer and go to brazil.
i'm not really sure what to do. i have received a scholarship to go with a prestigious university and it is kind of a great opportunity.
problem: i am pretty far from better with lyme.
this seems somewhat dangerous, because if i go, i could really crash while in brazil with a hard relapse and not have any medical support.
so i dunno, i need to decide very soon. right now i am leaning towards telling them i can't go, but everything has already been set in motion and i feel bad for wanting/needing to back out, especially because, again, the university is really prestigious, and i am somewhat starstruck, and if i wasn't sick i would love to go.
so i don't know what is the correct "medical" decision here.
anyone have any similar dilemma? (i.e. with vacation or life planning in general) what did you decide?
ok, sorry for cluttering the board with this somewhat unimportant post (i actually have more pressing medical problems than this little decision), but i'm trying to clear things up in my head, and it is proving difficult.
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tailz
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Listen to your intuition and don't go - I wouldn't. If you go and end up crashing, you will regret it. I hear your reluctance in your tone.
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Which university is it? In which city?
I was born there.
At the same time, alternative care and homeopathy are very developed there. The contact you have with doctors is also very nice, usually, you can talk and ask things, and there's lots of communication. Totally different from here in Switzeralnd, where you're seen like an object without any brain.
I do know a professor who was studying lyme in a university there (like the one from Campinas). Ma brother was a friend of one of his students.
So depending on where you go (probably SP state I suppose?), who knows you'll get some help there?
As I'm born there, I would have found my way in the medical system, I got contacts, lots of friends who are physicians etc. But no lyme literate doctor there with loads of experience, as lyme does not really exist there (only rare cases).
I also did part of my university studies there, so if you'd like to PM me, feel free.
Selma
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Why can't you take antibiotics while you are there??
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bettyg
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selma, so glad you came along and commented on this one!
my gut reaction is NOT to go since you are not up to par right now, and you'd have $$ coming out of your pocket correct? that's my gut reaction.
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