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I'm feeling pretty sick right now, and also don't use a computer. My wife is typing this for me, and she has been kind enough to try to find a dr. for me on the internet through your website.
We know a lot about Lyme since I contracted my first sickness with it 10 years ago. We were to 9 dr.s here in Utah where we live for part of the year, before I found one at that time, to send to IGnex lab where my test came back positive finally, and then I was treated for a month with antibiotics in an IV by a local dr, and I got better then and have been in relatively good health all this time with a few Lyme-type flare-ups that only lasted a few months.
However, this dr. said he wouldn't treat me again with such high doses for antibiotics ever again, when I went in one time for a check-up a year later, as I was having a few flare-up symptoms and asked him if he would, if I ever got worse. He acted strangely, as if I was crazy to ask this, and then asked me if I smoked or drank,(very little) and that because I did, he said that could be causing neck aches and headaches! I think I know the difference between a hangover and Lyme. Well, that's Utah.
However, I've just since this November been in bad shape again with many of the same symptoms I had before. My wife bought the book "Why Can't I Get Better," which is excellent, and I highly recommend it for those who have chronic Lyme, which is what I guess, I have. In Utah the dr's on the whole don't have knowledge of Lyme, and I can't imagine would treat me for Lyme with the strong antibiotics I am finding out through the book I will need. We are feeling a bit desperate through the holidays, as now I have a terrible cold on top of the Lyme, am depressed, and I know if I go to a local dr, he or she will most likely get me the blood test I want, but I have no high hopes of being treated by anyone in the state.
We have a cabin in northwest Wisconsin, where I contracted Lyme. We are thinking either Duluth, MN or somewhere else in WI might be a better place to find a dr -- however -- how do you find a good one?
I know people don't like to give out names on the internet, protecting them, which I understand. Do you have any thoughts about how I would go about finding a good Lyme Dr?
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Please ask you wife to break up your posts into 2-3 sentence paragraphs, as there are people on Lymenet who cannot read large blocks of text due to neurological problems from Lyme. Thanks.
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