Test Entire Family?

Now that I know I've had lyme for who knows how long, I'm worried about the rest of my family. My husband and young children show no symptoms currently, but I worry that it could have been passed to my kids in utero or breastfeeding.

Did any of you have your whole family tested once you found out you were positive? I'd hate to put my kids through testing if it's not really necessary. (I can't even imagine my 4 year old letting someone draw blood.)

Jslag, my wife and I have discussed testing both our kids. My son is very bright but has Attention deficit in school, has Mysophonia, and other odd behaviors. Shortly after my symptoms started my daughter developed unknown stomach issues, low grade fevers, night sweats and perhaps the worst, a rash in December that began to spread all over her body. It resembles chickenpox but we think it's psoriasis. It's all over her body and hasn't gone away in 8 months. Now she's started with she's sleepy all the time and is urinating all the time like I was. She's 3 years old and it kills me to think that she might have it. Even if it's not lyme it might be be babesia or bartonella. My wife has begun to seriously consider all this and wants to test her. Problem is selling it to our Doctor not the LLMD.

My son is almost two and I breastfed him as well. So far no symptoms, but I am debating when to test him. My LLMD won't treat kids until age 4 or 5.

I also am lyme positive and my second child who is only 28 months has neurological problems and stomach/gut issues. She is getting her blood drawn next week.

Financially, we are in ruins despite me having a good paying job, health insurance and my husband works also. It's still not enough to cover all these charges. We're trying though.

Thank you traveler for the application for testing families. It will help us out so much if we get assistance!

Congratulations on seeing improvement with your son, GreenBlue!! That's awesome!! It's so hard to watch your kids be sick.

JoOnTheGo - You're very welcome! I'm glad I could be of help!

I have other links to sites about helping to save money while treating Lyme if you would like to see them. Just let me know!

Hi Magdalena Louisa!!!
Welcome to our community!! I'm so glad you found us!!

If you haven't ​yet​, it would be helpful for you to start with reading through the thread at the top of the forum titled,"New to Lyme?...Start here!!", as it is packed full of important information, symptom lists, helpful links and pdf's, how to detox when one has these infections, information on probiotics and much more.

Please take the time to go through these links. There will be some duplicate posts in them, but each of them have something valuable:

Care Creditwww.carecredit.com/
www.carecredit.com/howcarecreditworks/


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lymeunderground.com/survival-tactics-getting-by-on-a-limited-budget/


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