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  • From: Deb Taft <growbd AT aol.com>
  • To: market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] lyme disease
  • Date: Tue, 02 Feb 2010 17:18:23 -0500



Hi All.

I don't really have much wisdom to share on this subject...just a "me too!"  

I've just deleted several paragraphs about my own Lyme story because it was probably lacking in anything that could be useful to y'all.  I've been ailing now for at least 6 months...and maybe as much as a year and a half.  I keep telling myself that the fatigue I'm still feeling is just a matter of inertia, that it will take some time for me to really get forward momentum back after months of sleeping the days away...but I've recently been wondering if that's the truth and this conversation is inspiring me to seek out a Lyme specialist.  The doctor who treated me was pretty damned ignorant of the disease and has left me to do my own research.

The one thing I'd like to throw into the mix that may be helpful is that there seems to be a connection between Lyme and hypothyroidism.  My thyroid was checked a few months prior to the time I believe I was infected (though again, infection might have been as much as a year earlier), and was fine.  Soon after being diagnosed (positive Western Blot) and treated (3 months of doxycycline) for Lyme I was tested again for thyroid problems and was found to have hypothyroidism and severe anemia, which may also be an effect of Lyme.  Can you say Triple Whammy of Fatigue?!

If you have Lyme and have a doctor who knows what they're doing, hypothyroidism and anemia have probably already been addressed.  If you have a lame doc like mine, it might be worthwhile to ask for these blood tests.  It appears that Lyme-induced hypothyroidism usually results in an inability to turn T4 into T3, which means that Synthroid won't address the problem.  

Best,
Deb




-----Original Message-----
From: Thomas Patrick Hurtgen <hurtgenmeadows AT gmail.com>
To: sue roseman <swissy AT socket.net>; Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Mon, Feb 1, 2010 6:53 pm
Subject: Re: [Market-farming] lymes disease

Market Farming readers:  
I know about the admonitions to keep posts to this list brief, however, something like this topic - lyme disease - is just too important to be truncated.  Can more knowledgeable list serve people suggest a way for people who have been through lyme disease share info with the rest of us who worry about getting it?  The deer herd has exploded here.  I may have gotten 5 - 8 tick bites in 25 years until last year.  Last summer I took off  one or two ticks almost every day.  At first I kept them sealed in scotch tape but that got out of hand so I stopped.  What are the preventive measures and what are the early sign of the disease?  Many thanks to all of the posters who have contributed much to my knowledge base over the last couple years.  Tom (Central NC, waiting for mother nature to melt the snow away as farm work awaits.)
On Feb 1, 2010, at 5:39 PM, sue roseman wrote:

Hello list'
I am glad someone brought this up.  I have wanted to do this for a long time 
but still felt too ill and tired to do it.  I have been in treatment for 
Borreiosis which is lymes disease for 6 yr.  Now my husband has it too.  I 
can't begin to tell you the horrors of this disease and how prevalent it is 
aaaalllllllll over the world.  I am blessed enough to have found a LDMD that 
is considered to be one of the best in the world right in good old Missouri! 
Thank you God.  I was in remission but now it is back.  WE shall see how I 
do.  I have been stubborn enough to keep working growing for 2 markets.

I could go on forever but know the list wants things short.  I am open to 
receiving any emails about this.  I AM WARNING YOU ALL TO BE VERY CAREFUL 
THIS YR WHEN YOU ARE OUTSIDE!  You can get bitten by nymph ticks and not 
even know it.  Besides that research is now showing it to be in horse 
flys,mosquitoes and other things.  If it is caught early it is very curable 
if not so far not curable just controllable.  It is also very hard to detect 
no test is accurate yet which makes many be misdiagnosed with ALS and MS and 
Parkinson.
Also Missouri has a different form of it.  There are just different forms of 
it.  Ours is call Stari Borreliosis.  Drs. are very ignorant about this 
disease but becoming a bit more aware now.

That is enough said for now but please please be careful.  Email me if you 
want to know anymore as I have lotsssss of info on this.
Sue in cold Zone 4-5 at 7 this morning
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