Why Lyme Disease is Often Not Diagnosed
Quickly by Your Doctor
You may have been visiting your doctor for
years complaining about a myriad of symptoms. People may think that you are a
hypochondriac. Yet you knew something was wrong. And one day finally you are
told a diagnosis that you have a disease called Lyme disease. How is it that the
medical community was clueless? After all this is the 21’st century with
advanced medicine and all the tests in the world. Why you wonder was your Lyme
disease caught before.
The answers
are myriad. First Lyme disease is frequently misdiagnosed. Physicians overlook
cases of Lyme disease simply because they do not know the complex nature of the
origin and development of Lyme Disease. Lyme Disease can cause over 100
different symptoms and the one commonly known symptom of Lyme Disease – that is
joint pain is only one of the many presentations of Lyme Disease.
Secondly the tests for Lyme Disease are frequently useless and frequently
misleading. The bacteria which causes Lyme disease can only infrequently be
grown in bacterial plates. There is no one test to medical test diagnose Lyme
Disease. Hence your doctor has to be on the ball to catch your symptoms. And
even then he may not put together your odd symptoms as Lyme Disease if you
unlucky enough to have Lyme Disease symptoms that “are not in the book”.
Not only is
that Lyme Disease not caused by the one known bacteria. It is now estimated that
300 different strains of bacterial worldwide cause Lyme Disease. Further it is
not only the deer tick that spreads Lyme Disease. Other ticks such as Lone Star
Ticks, western black legged and wood ticks can spread Lyme Disease as well. And
if that is not enough global warming is spreading the geographic range of some
of these insects to previously unknown areas.
You are not
alone in being left out in the cold. It turns out that Lyme Disease is much more
common than previously estimated – up to 10 to 15 times higher than the previous
underrated estimates. As you well have figures out by now doctors often miss
most cases if Lyme Disease. The reasons are not hard to figure out. Further
because of the apparent low rates of this disease it is not considered of any
major public health concern so that there is no mandatory reporting procedure as
one might find with venereal diseases. You have been caught in a terrible
vicious cycle. Low diagnosis rates since doctors do not know what to look for
and tests are not accurate in any manner. Then because the true prevalence of
the incidence of Lyme Disease is vastly underreported Lyme disease is seen as a
minor disease that is well taken care of. Hence there is little need for
education on how to catch the symptoms of Lyme Disease .The circle goes on and
on.
Amazingly
even if you are one of the lucky few and have your Lyme Disease correctly
diagnosed you may not be home free. You may be under treated with antibiotic
therapy. The stated course of action is a 6 week schedule of antibiotic therapy.
Yet it often takes months, years and perhaps for ever of antibiotic therapy to
manage this lingering disease with its hardy bacterial threat.
It has been said
that just because you are paranoid does not mean that people are not out to get
you. You were not imagining that your Lyme Disease took a very long time to
diagnose. And the reasons are real not imagined.
Morgellons Research Foundation Com
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Margaret Mathews
Health Practitioner
www.morgellonsresearchfoundation.com