tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694894153899281485.post7932845837941552202..comments2024-03-09T08:14:49.856-08:00Comments on LymeMD: Borreliosis, new and emerging speciesLyme report: Montgomery County, MDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11035327980787631502noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694894153899281485.post-42567305756517559982016-03-07T22:06:31.868-08:002016-03-07T22:06:31.868-08:00Why did you remove your most recent post dated Mar...Why did you remove your most recent post dated March 3, 2016, and titled "What the Lyme Western Blot really means, understanding the big picture"? I thought it was very informative and well-written. Now that I no longer have access to it, I wish I had saved it for future reference.Fallen Star Reaching For The Skyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01216762193971373276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694894153899281485.post-59577809347942076082016-02-27T20:16:11.533-08:002016-02-27T20:16:11.533-08:00Harder to find a rash if you're dark-skinned l...Harder to find a rash if you're dark-skinned like myself. or if the bite is on a limb or other area where the shape is not easily discernible. <br />I've had any number of mysterious small non-bullseye rashes in various places, and at least two such rashes associated with new tick bites and which coincidentally (?)closely preceded the onset of new Sx.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694894153899281485.post-19629973332940861262016-02-24T13:03:39.772-08:002016-02-24T13:03:39.772-08:00A study some years back done for the now-withdrawn...A study some years back done for the now-withdrawn vaccine, with Steere as an author, found that the most common lyme rash was not a bullseye. Somehow that information has never gained any traction. We are still told by the "authorities" that a high percentage of rashes are bullseye, even though the entry to case reporting is a positive two tier test or a bullseye rash. Then a lot of reported cases have bullseye. Gee, if you have to have this to get in the door, obviously the people inside will have it. Once again we ask if this is stupidity or deliberate on the part of the officials.<br /><br />My rash was small, irregular, red, not expanding. For a long time, I did not associate it with the rest of the symptoms until a doctor showed me an identical rash on his arm where he had removed a tick and then developed lyme symptoms.lymiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00123316749536517739noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694894153899281485.post-87872793445989939352016-02-11T07:55:45.006-08:002016-02-11T07:55:45.006-08:00What treatment are you considering for this patien...What treatment are you considering for this patient?Brianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02013809320053657442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694894153899281485.post-73810025385602699772016-02-11T03:41:58.035-08:002016-02-11T03:41:58.035-08:00What I don't get about Borrelia is the immense...What I don't get about Borrelia is the immense variation to antibiotic response.<br />I don't really know in what world Doxycycline would have zero impact on spirochetes.<br />The tetracycline class is probably the best broad spectrum antibiotic class of all.<br /><br />I can agree that doxy might induce blebs, lessen the immune response, kill motile ones and so on.<br />But no response what so ever?<br />This antibiotic divergence shows up in lab work too. Zhang claims Tinidazole has little effect in vitro. Sapi and Brorson claim otherwise. How can the results be so different?<br /><br />I can't take doxy. It causes symtomps to explode. Betalactams work fine however. I had a month of Rocephine, best I ever felt... Some patients are just the opposite.Christianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11059898635292003315noreply@blogger.com