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Topic: Only nice people get sick with Lyme?

swedish lyme sufferer
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Just that everyone here is so friendly that one starts to suspect that those xxx are attracted to really nice people.

Why can't the bad guys in IDSA get this disease fo instance?

[hi]

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NanaDubo
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Funny you mention that. I was talking with someone the other day who does some alternative Lyme treatments.

I told him I couldn't even go outside without finding a tick on me.

He said "ticks are like everything else, they pick up on good energy".

I think ticks like anything with blood but it sounded nice [Big Grin]

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cantgiveupyet
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I really do believe this.

I find that it is the alcoholics that for the most part are healthy. I have a few friends that drink pretty heavily during the week and they are healthy.

I was healthier when i drank a few times a week too.

This frustrates me to no end that i had to get this disease, when i see some rotten people walking around healthy :-(

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"Thus the task is, not so much to see what no one has seen yet,
But to think what nobody has thought yet, About what everybody sees."

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pos babs, bart, igenex WB igm/igg

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tdtid
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I agree that I have met some of the kindest and most caring people since having lyme. Sadly, many of our "friends" sort of drift away when we get too sick, so it does make you stop and take notice.

Another thing I have found....I was ill for five years before knowing it was lyme and had many misdiagnosis's. I have to say that during those, I did find support groups for all those illnesses, usually online since I was too sick.

But one thing I did find out along the way is that Lyme patients are more "intelligent?????" or let's say, they know about their illness in ways that other illnesses don't NEED to know because we have struggled to get our answers.

I found that by coming here, most of the advice I got here was more information than MOST doctors I was seeing knew anything about. So they are not only friendly but dang smart to boot.

Way to go, Lymies!!!!!!!!!!!

Cathy

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daise
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Hi everyone,

quote:

Cathy wrote:

they know about their illness in ways that other illnesses don't NEED to know because we have struggled to get our answers.

Yes, it seems most of us have had to struggle profoundly, in every way.

I appreciated that there was information "out there" and yes, the sheer struggle made me appreciate what I went through and I'm driven to help others with this hideous disease--just like all of you.

Enjoy the day! Smilie time:
[Razz]

daise

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Greatcod
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I'm not very nice, and I got it.

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daise
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Greatcod,

OH NO--another anomaly in the Lyme field! [Big Grin]

Don't turn nice--don't do it. All your signs and nastiest of symptoms could reverse. [lick]

You see, your face would be wiped out, just like smilie here.

daise [Smile]

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METALLlC BLUE
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Greatcod, I hear ya.

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Keebler
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tdtid: we're only " some of the kindest and most caring people " because if we shout we'll pass out !

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djf2005
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hahah.

this is very true. im starting to realize life is just ironic. especially life with lyme.

with this illness, im learning or trying not to take things so serious.

my car just died tonite for the 5th time in a month, the apt i wanted and went to look at is not going to work out, im sick as hell, and tomorrow is the 4th of july...

there are so many things to be negative about, trying to stay positive and not get ****ed about being sick is hard sometimes.

it is frustrating like michelle said when u see your friends drinking like fish all the live long day and are healthy as can be, while i am seriously nuts about my diet and trying to get better and feel so lousy...

oh well. at the end of the day, i guess we are just not really in charge, are we?

[Smile]

cheers

derek

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NanaDubo
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Back to the same person that told me ticks like people with good energy. He also said they stay far away from alcohol or alcoholics.

Can't remember exactly how he put it.

Makes be want to go buy a keg [lol]

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cantgiveupyet
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Nana, if that is true then that explains why everyone I know that drinks daily isnt sick.

I should have drank more I suppose :-(

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"Say it straight simple and with a smile."

"Thus the task is, not so much to see what no one has seen yet,
But to think what nobody has thought yet, About what everybody sees."

-Schopenhauer

pos babs, bart, igenex WB igm/igg

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swedish lyme sufferer
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NanaDubo, so on the alcohol issue,
why we are so intolerant to alcolhol, maybe it is the buggs that don't like us to drink, They are intolerant, and we feel like crap.....alcohol herxing?

[bonk]

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Cobweb
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Only nice people get sick with Lyme?

It only seems that way because you just can't tell when the bad guys get it-nothing changes.

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