much-needed future research is conducted. So, for now, remission is the goal.
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Awareness and Education are the Keys to Prevention
Like most Lyme patients, I had very IF YOU DON’T WANT THE NEXT 10 YEARS TO
BE LIKE THE LAST, THEN NOW IS THE TIME TO DO SOMETHING DIFFERENT.
little prior knowledge of tick-borne ill- nesses before that challenging day of twenty lengths in the pool. Becoming infected with Lyme disease (LD) was not really on my radar and I believed it is something that happens to a small number of unfortunate individuals. I never saw the tick that changed my life. I never devel- oped a telltale rash. In fact, at least half of Lyme patients never see a tick or develop a rash, so it takes longer for them and their PCPs to consider Lyme disease as the root cause of their growing dysfunction and loss of energy.
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The Center for Disease Control (CDC) and the Infectious Disease Society of Amer- ica (IDSA) still believe, as I did, that Lyme disease is diffi cult to get and easy to cure with a short course of antibiotics. The truth is often just the opposite! I’ve learned that Lyme is easy to get and frequently diffi cult to cure, especially if it is not diagnosed and treated soon after the infecting tick bite. For years, the CDC reported new confi rmed cases of LD at roughly 30,000/year. Several years ago, the CDC revised the number to roughly 300,000 new suspected cases of LD nationwide. Many Lyme specialists believe those numbers are still too conser- vative.
Tick-borne illnesses are on the rise and
have now become a worldwide epidemic with no signs of decline. It is estimated that Lyme disease is roughly six times more prevalent than HIV/AIDS in the USA and yet it only receives 1% of the federal fund- ing that AIDS research is allocated. What’s wrong with this picture? In the last several years there is considerably more media coverage of Lyme disease and some prog- ress in helpful legislation is being enacted because the Lyme community is tragically growing at 300,000 people per year and consequently awareness is increasing.
Lessons Learned the Hard Way I’ve learned some important lessons
from living with the daily consequences of various tick-borne illnesses. Over the past seven years, I have conducted a determined search for answers and a cure. Through extensive reading, attending
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