Fight Lyme Disease

[johny]

Really, do you have a family member suffering from this? I do, took many visits to different "specialists" that didn't have a clue.

Did they have a true positive test for Lyme done at a Canadian lab, that multiple specialists failed to do?

[jlmorgan]

There is a very good letter to the editor in the Manitoulin Expositor on Dec. 17/16 concerning lyme disease. If you google the above newspaper name and go to letters to the editor you can go back to dec.17 and read it.

[Fox]

One way to get rid of ticks, stop killing Opossums.

http://www.caryinstitute.org/newsroo...-killers-ticks

[awndray]

Or, raise chickens or guinea fowl.

[Fox]

Or, raise chickens or guinea fowl.

Gunieas are supposed to be great, loud as heck though and they are hard to keep on your property unless you raise them up and handle them as chicks.

[Sharon]

This is a check list you can just check off and copy yourself for your Dr. So many symptoms that overlap other illnesses that it is hard to diagnose. Having the tick is the best way to diagnose. Even then, not all deer ticks cause lyme disease. I went once with what I thought was the common rash. Turned out it wasn't but the Dr gave me the meds anyways.
( doxycycline)

https://www.lymedisease.org/lyme-dis...tom-checklist/

*Avril Lavigne has been out of commission for 2 years with lyme disease.

[yellow dog]

My girlfriend works with the girl in the video. I also know two other suffering from Lyme. Both were misdiagnosed with other afflictions, for years before one day they finally diagnosed them with Lyme. Ontario (and the rest of Canada) lacks the resources required to properly attack this problem.

I personally know 4 hunters from the Sarnia area that have Lyme disease that were misdiagnosed a couple of years ago. It was debilitating to them physically and financially and had been in and out of the hospital so many times that the one young lad said he had been to the emerg 54 times in one year. Finally it was diagnosed by a doctor in the U.S who was able to treat them but for the most part they still carry some of the symptoms. They were eventually told the Ontario Government was building a new research facility in Toronto to study Lyme disease along with a cure. Apparently this new facility build had started early 2016 but have since not heard anything more if it has been completed.

[JBen]

Interesting read out of.......guess where. It's utterly shameful how far behind the curve Canada is.

http://www.npr.org/sections/goatsand...-the-northeast

And yeah Fox, I don't think it's remotely coincidental that the spread and increase of Opossums is right behind the spread and increase of Ticks. Nature at work without a doubt. I seriously would not kill a Opossum. It might just be the Opossum that gets the deer tick, that infects my dog or me.

[CalTek]

Diagnosis has always been state of the art in Ontario.

There are no “secret” “hidden” tests available only in California or Germany.

My wife's aunt had to go to the US for better testing to determine that the disease she had (which slowly disabled her mobility) was, in fact, Lyme (she was tested at various hospitals across S. Ontario prior to that). If she didn't go to the US than she likely wouldn't be on the path to (hopefully) regaining 90-95% of her functionality back.

After seeing the impact of this nasty disease on her I would never wish it on anyone.

[JBen]

"Scary" thought.

Granted we here are people that love the outdoors, be that fishing, hunting, camping, dogs, other.
Obviously a number of us have either run into the wide cracks in our healthcare system, which starts at it taking months to see a specialist ( ignoring what occurs when you get the well I cant figure out what the hell is wrong with you.....off to the next)..... to botched testing/diagnosis. Or we personally know people who have, and in this specific case ran into the problems specific to Lyme.

Now extrapolate that over the population, and then couple that, with people in urban centres who aren't as up to speed or as knowledgable. I dont know how many of my friends for simple example go to leash free green spaces in Durham region ( confirmed cases) in short and sandals.

Ticking time bombs, a few of them.
And the Governements "action plan"...Awfully familiar to "Bear wise"