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I live in Lexington (central Kentucky). Anyone know a MD willing to address Chronic Lyme around here? Thanks, liberty Posts: 1 | From Lexington, KY | Registered: Dec 2007
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I'm trying to send you a private message with some names (not in Kentucky, though) but I don't see that your PM option is available.....Many of us with lyme or co-infections who live in the Southeastern part of the country have to travel out-of-state for treatment....
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liberty, I'm in Louisville, KY. Please let me know if you have any questions from UL red blooded fan? CATS looked good in Nashville win on Monday afteroon.
I've been treating since July '99. I'll be glad to help. Read threads from KY, Indians, Ohio in topic posts the last few months.
Pam
-------------------- "Never, never, never, never, never give up" Winston Churchill Posts: 6478 | From Louisville, Ky | Registered: Jan 2002
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Cats had a wonderful win in Nahsville Monday night..good game.
I have been meaning to ask you who treats you for your Lyme Disease. As you know, here in Lexington no one treats or even understands the disease.
I have been to Dr C in Missouri, but he is much too far and does not take Medicare anymore.
Any info would be appreciated.
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Perplexed, my only doctor now is my PCP. He is Internist. He's been my doc since sometime in '98, when he first joined a HMO plan of docs that I lived close to.
On my first visit to him....I had scheduled with whatever doctor was able to see me that day. My knees were killing me off and on for a couple months.
I was 41 yrs old then and somedays I could hardly walk up and down two flights of steps in our 3 story old house. I ddn't take meds in those days, except synthroid. Maybe tylenol for headache. Maybe.
I could usually struggle through any pain without, but this knee pain was hurting my active life style. We tried a couple different arthritic meds, zero help and I stopped them. Kept going, going, gone one morning July 19, 1999.
Ten days later still not recovered from this flu-like illness from hell and having some sx that I knew were not typical flu-like sx and scared I went into his office and told him I thought I had a severe food poisoning illness.
Something attacking all my joints especially all bones in both hands, weird brain fuzzy feeling, fever, etc. I told him I came down ill at our lake house. He asked about tick bites?
None that I knew of. He said doesn't sound like food poisoning, might be lyme, don't worry if it is, it's early and abx will take care of it.
He and I together found out the sometimes real chronic lyme story. I remembered week or two later that I had been attacked by a dozen insects about month before at the lake. I thought they were chiggers and put clear nail polish on them like my sister told me to do.
Never had chiggers before??? Dr C in '02 when I told him about the dozen chiggers, said he thought they were most likely deer ticks or nymph ticks, after hearing my discription of the bites.
Dr C thought chiggers were possible? But ticks most likely. They were the straw that broke the camels back.
Well maybe the molar I had pulled on Thurs that I had spent lots of money on trying to save for a few years and dentist didn't write script for abx. The Monday morning after is when the illness from hell hit me. That molar tooth had become a throbbing pain in my mouth continually.
Didn't remember the molar part of it until later on in illness, when I was reading about lyme & teeth & needing abx for pulling of tooth that was obvisiously very inflammed with who knows what type of bacteria. It could of spread through my body like wildfire.
My doc is not an LLMD. He knew of lyme because he had come from the New England area and had seen patients in the practice with early lyme sx similiar to mine.
He is actually my angel. After 6 months of lyme & company, I started telling him how I wanted to proceed with my healthcare. Sometimes he tells me something else he wants me to try or even no, he thinks we should try something else.
I know I got awful long in this answer to your question, perplexed. But if my story somehow can help someone else reading it, it was worth telling and reading it. That makes me glad if I can help someone understand lyme & company.
Perplexed, there's got to be someone in Lexington that could help you. I don't know if cured is the word, but relieving sx and using alternative to help the body kill off these bacteria is hard work. Money and medicare is tough.
I haven't been to Dr C since '04 and I know he doesn't take medicare insurance anymore. It's bad when you travel one way 8 hrs to a doctor, I know.
Pam
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