Ticks! They Can Really Make you Sick 

Sarah Mabry I am sorry for the symptoms you have had to endure. I am however, not sure why you are getting the treatment you are getting as every meta review and meta analysis I have ever seen has concluded that prolonged antibiotic therapy offers no sustained benefit to patients who have post-Lyme disease syndrome or 'chronic lyme disease' . These studies also showed a substantial placebo effect and a significant risk of treatment-related adverse events. As such the treatment you are receiving runs counter to the recommendations of the AMA and CDC.

I've had chronic Lyme disease and 3 co infections for the last 18 years and it is truly a living hell. I get retested by my Lyme doctor frequently and still test positive even after rounds of IV antibiotics( which I currently have a catheter into my heart for). I'm doing better but am still bedridden and can't work. More people need to take Lyme disease more seriously and we need better testing. I hope you're doing better and If you ever need a fellow lymie to talk to, let me know :)

Ms. Lindsey Marie He did not touch chronic Lyme, but more accurately post-treatment Lyme disease syndrome. Untreated Lyme disease on the other hand is more accurately referred to as disseminated late-stage Lyme disease.

TeamHarryJamesPotter It seems some doctors who have never experienced an anxiety attack blow them off with an "it's all in your head" attitude. I've had anxiety attacks; they are _horrible_. You're convinced you're going to die at any moment. The worst part is that anxiety attacks feed off themselves; the more you freak out, the worse it gets. The best thing you can do when you get an anxiety attack is to realise that you're just having an anxiety attack and that it will pass. I'm not a doctor so I'm not going to give any medical advice other than to say: if your doctor "doesn't believe in anxiety attacks" or does not take them seriously, find another doctor. I used to get anxiety attacks all the time. Two of them were so bad I went to emergency because I felt like I couldn't breathe, my heart was racing and I thought I was dying. I haven't had one for many years now, however. I tend to not stress out about things these days and I suspect that's helped.

Dixavd ouch

Dixavd A significant number of teenage boys would have left it there rather than suffer the embarrassment ;)

Preston Elder Really? I can understand if you're in a dorm and not asking your roommate or a friend but not your mom.

Dixavd I've had similar, but not as bad experiences, If it's somewhere you cant see or get with tweasers on your own, use the soap trick put soap on a cloth or tolet paper with a dab of hot water and press it to the tick rubbing it in a bit, and it'll just come right off, I did it myself the last two time I got a tick (on the inside of my ass check and in my pubes) saved me a lot of embarressment

Dixavd I found one on... well... my penis. Took its time crawling all the way up too. Super uncomfortable and gosh was I mad.

Yes, only lone star ticks cause alpha-gal syndrome

xD

Sarah Mabry He could have mentioned the many complications associated with Lyme disease. I wish he went into why "chronic lyme disease" is not a term used by the medical community, but what can you do?

more people need to be educated about how dangerous it is to be left untreated

sion8 Actually, the meat allergy is from a sugar in the tick's saliva. It's also in meat, but normally it's broken down by digestion and never reaches the blood stream.

***** Yeah after I wrote I remembered that this was wrong, but he didn't mentioned it anyways.

Abraxian Absolution That's almost impossible, seeing as most if not all tick species have non-human hosts. Eradicating a parasite or disease from humanity is possible, albeit difficult, especially when it involves the developing world(look at Small Pox or Guinea Worm). But to completely eradicate a disease that has reservoirs in non-humans would be a Herculean task, just imagine having to track down every single wild deer in North America (if not the World) and combing them for ticks. All the while, new ticks are hiding in the grass. Having said that, you could go all sci-fi and genetically engineer a disease that only a particular species of tick could get but that is carried by tick prey species like dogs. In a similar way to how Malaria is carried by Mosquitos but does not effect the Mosquito itself.

Abraxian Absolution kill all warm blooded animals

Abraxian Absolution I wonder if they stop by Rivendell first.

... You'll have my spotted fever ...And my Lyme ...And my rash * shudder *

Tooth&NailGaming bring a mirror so you can check for ticks.

***** I'm just going to marinade mu entire body in DDT

Bob Radu Next week's episode will be about coffee.

seriously this episode almost made me burst into tears. I hate ticks...