He sent me a western blot test kit and I had blood drawn here and sent it to the lab he recommended.
It came back positive, I found out Friday at my first appointment.
It is hard because me and my family are kind of happy that finally a test actually came up with something wrong.
But then of course it is going to be daunting and expensive.
I lost my insurance Yesterday, was on cobra from my job, which I lost because of this illness.
We have to sell the house and keep the money we make for medical expenses.
To top it all off, my Husband sells cars, need I say more about that?
But at least we know which mountain we have to climb and I don't have small kids anymore, so neighborhoods aren't quite as big of a deal.
But thanks to you here on this forum for your help with everything and guiding me in the right direction.
I do have a few questions.
1) My cousin is diagnosed with MS and he grew up in same place as me. I need to know where he can go in or near Austin Texas.
2) My sister Also has just got diagnosed with a sleep disorder and She live in Boise Idaho. So We need an LLMD for her and her Husband.
3) I have been reading a lot about Lyme and have seen that BB can go to our babies, Is that right? How likely is that. Does anyone have any statistics on that?
I hope I wrote this to be easy to read this time. There is a learning curve to posting here.. lol.
Thanks, Conny
Posts: 50 | From Charleston, SC | Registered: Jan 2009
| IP: Logged |
sixgoofykids
Honored Contributor (10K+ posts)
Member # 11141
posted
Hi Conny, congratulations on finally having answers to your health problems. I was diagnosed two years ago after over 30 years of having Lyme. I am mostly better today.
I have six kids and one has been diagnosed with Lyme. She had her own tick bite so we don't know if it was congenital. I do not think there are actual statistics on it, but yes, it can be passed on.
-------------------- sixgoofykids.blogspot.com Posts: 13449 | From Ohio | Registered: Feb 2007
| IP: Logged |
groovy2
Frequent Contributor (1K+ posts)
Member # 6304
posted
Hi Conny
One way you can Greatly reduce the cost of your meds is to buy them in Mexico --
Meds there cost about 1/10th of meds in the US --
I fly to El Paso and cross the boarder there- Its easy -- the only draw back is soon a passport will be needed to cross back into the US-
I got bit in Austin TX about One year after moving here -- 21 yrs ago I got both Lyme and Babs --Jay--
Posts: 2999 | From Austin tx USA | Registered: Oct 2004
| IP: Logged |
bettyg
Unregistered
posted
conny, so sorry to read this!
check your profile for 1 texas & 1 idaho llmd info! *******************************
also, go to my newbie package links and print off FINANCIAL BURDENS 74-92.
The Lyme Disease Network is a non-profit organization funded by individual donations. If you would like to support the Network and the LymeNet system of Web services, please send your donations to:
The
Lyme Disease Network of New Jersey 907 Pebble Creek Court,
Pennington,
NJ08534USA http://www.lymenet.org/
UBBFriend: Email this page to someone!
![[kiss]](graemlins/kissing.gif)
But thanks to you here on this forum for your ![[Wink]](wink.gif)
lol.
![[group hug]](graemlins/grouphug.gif)
Printer-friendly view of this topic