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It's my first day on Doxy and I am feeling alittle (actually) alot high right now! So if this seems out of line keep my mental condition in mind...
I've been battling lyme for 2 years with my husband already. My dog has it , I have it, and MANY people I know have it. It is pandemic in my area. I talk to fish and wildlife officials that have it, and the list goes on and on and on.
I can't believe that doctors are so ignorant about it. I can't believe that if I want to see a lyme doctor, I need to pay out of my own pocket. I pay over $500 per month for my health benefits! What kind of Bullcrap is this????
I am so angy, I have developed an evil plan to take over the world. Sorry, just kidding (Pinky and the Brain Cartoon).
Actually....here's my idea:
I keep thinking, I should breed deer ticks with lyme and co-infections, and I should release hundreds of them into my doctor's office and my insurance company's office. I want them to feel what each and everyone of us feel. Then I can tell them they are crazy! I can tell them to pay for it out of THEIR OWN pockets!
So what do you say? Are you with me? Should we become tick farmers?
As you know I am just kidding. But really, what is it going to take to make people see our situation. Hey, if anyone has any crazier ideas, let me know...At least we can have some fun with this!
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Andie333
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I'm with you, Betty and Azure...
This is one disease I wouldn't want ANYONE to have to face.
My best friend is a two-time breast cancer survivor and says that in her estimation Lyme is much worse. Thank God she doesn't have it!
Actually, wildthing says she's just joking. Other people have mentioned variations on this same theme for me. Somehow my sense of humor (even dark humor) stops with Lyme.
Maybe I'll have a different perspective when I'm a operating at something close to average...but I doubt it.
This has robbed me of three good years of my life, and it's all just too awful!
Andie
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You people are just too kind. I WOULD wish this on some of the people most responsible for the mismanagement of the lyme epidemic. They DO deserve it. Why are we giving a free pass to people who have so perverted the medical system that patients with infectious diseases cannot get treatment?
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Wildthing, I am with you! At times when I have been disbelieved, shrugged off, lectured, etc. etc. etc., I have felt just as you have. Also, If someone (Dr.I presume) would have taken my symptoms seriously 20 to 30 years ago, I may not be in the horrible shape that I am in today, (as i am sure many, many others are) I am and have been very angry at times. We have so many so called educated drs. out there that are so caught up in making a buck, and so closed minded, that they do not listen to their patients. I do not know how much money I, and my insurance co. have spent just to be shrugged off as crazy, or misdiagnosed for years, as I am sure most others have experienced. Yes, the picture that you imprinted in my mind about ticks biting these drs. has given me a little chuckle for today. I don"t know about anyone else but I really needed that! Thanks Wildthing!
Carlie
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OptiMisTiK-Thank you very much for the insurance info.
Cave-Thanks for seeing the "theoretical joke"!
Everyone else-I am with you too, I wouldn't wish this on anyone either, but my point is: what will it take to get them to see the hell that each person with lyme has to endure? Do they have to experience it to understand? If they don't then does it mean it doesn't exist? I wish they could read these posts and understand:-(
-------------------- Powerful Women's Motto: Live your life in such a way that When your feet hit the floor In the morning, Satan shudders & says� 'Oh ****!...She's Awake!!
AZURE WISH
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Hi tabers -
I think you are right about the stages of grief thing.... I have been in treatment since 2000...mis/undiagnosed for at least 13 years...
There was a time when I was very angry at all those drs that mistreated me in one way or another over the years.... but I have let all that go now.
I have definetely accepted it all (No that is not the same as giving up... I still plan on getting better and getting my life back). I am just in a better more peaceful place now.
So I think you are right - our different levels/expressions of anger are related to where we are in our personal healing processess.
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Carol B
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Hey- this has been my exact fantasy,too-only I would also include certain personel at work who have given me ten weeks to get better
-and I just began treatment-still in first month after two years of being sent from one specialist to another-and being told Lyme disease is just a catch all diagnosis-phooey on it!!!!
(until I went out of network to LLMD who would have treated me clinically because of my symptoms but my blood work was also POSITIVE POSITIVE)
Specifically I imagine finding out what cars they drive and letting the little buggers loose in the drivers seat.
So there! guess I am still in the anger, depressed and desperate stage. Vengence is MINE sayeth the Looney in BALTO, Carol
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