Lyme Awareness Pictures, May 4th 2013

Lyme Mob in Maine!

       Yesterday was the big day. Kickoff to "May is Lyme Awareness" month. Local businesses donated everything needed for the event, such as copies, tables, venue, water, and even a tick sculpture. My fellow Lymie friend and I brought our personal stories, and information from our different treatment plans. Very interesting. There are many options for treatment and people pick and choose to their liking. Seems like I have tried it all from homeopathic, to acupuncture, massage, hydrotherapy, over the counter pain killers, and vitamins and supplements. Not to mention antibiotics. My personal recommendation is to do them all, under the care of someone who knows the immune system and the bodies cellular needs. I feel blessed to have a doctor who is well rounded in his approach as well. That makes us a good match.
         At the Lyme Event, we set up tables, had information out our ears for people, and a generous amount of information from  my Vet on pets. I brought my dog who was diagnosed with Lyme two years ago and treated with three weeks of doxycycline. It was a general 'joke' that if you want more than two doxis' you need to go to your pets Vet. Not funny. We heard too many stories of people who were actually diagnosed and given 1 to 2 to 3 pills and told that was all they needed. I feel so sorry not only for those folks, but for doctors. The doctors today are stuck between a rock and a hard place. I'm not sure how hard they are fighting to get out of that spot, though. It is easier to leave it to  specialists, it seems, and specialists who are effective in getting people BETTER are few and far between. And so the saga continues. One day, just like Polio, TB, and Aids, Lyme will be figured out, and a protocol which actually works with be determined. Ticks of the future will have to live with it. It's the people in between now and then who will suffer, being left with unanswered 'mysterious' neurological deficits.