Posted 9/11/2009 2:03 PM (GMT 0)
It took two years. The really stupid thing is that I went to several doctors at the local hospital and was told I could not have gotten anything from a tick bite except Rocky Mt spotted fever as there is no lyme disease here. This hospital is about 4 blocks from Rocky Mt. Lab and is supposed to be working together with them in case of an escape of the deadly pathogens at the lab. This is the same lab that identified Bb - the scientist there that Bb was named after was Borgdorfer. This lab has been working on identifying the local strain for years. An article was published in the Missoulian newspaper in 2004 about it. Meanwhile, the hospital and all the doctors connected to it are telling sick people, like myself, that they cannot have anything, even when they have the EM rash staring them in the face.
I know of one person whose husband died from ALS several years ago. They were told the same thing and no one ever considered Lyme as a possibility. Last year I spoke with a woman whose husband was positive for lyme but was being treated for RA, as the doctors were convinced of CDC protocol. She said he was dying.