The more I read about cases like this of a Missouri woman dying of a newly-discovered tick-borne disease the more convinced I become that I’m a survivor of such a disease and that explains my lifelong chronic pain.
The more I read about cases like this of a Missouri woman dying of a newly-discovered tick-borne disease the more convinced I become that I’m a survivor of such a disease and that explains my lifelong chronic pain.
Sometimes, ya never know.
The weakness reminded me of the tick paralysis cases we used to see in LA and FL (haven’t seen nearly as many in GA.) It’s caused by toxins from the tick, not a virus as this woman contracted, but the dogs present with profound weakness of their hind legs from the neurotoxin affecting lower motor neurons in the spine. Sometimes it’s hard to find the tick-and it might only be one. Have had several cases where we had to look deep within ear canals. Fortunately I never saw the more severe cases and most of the time it was amazing to watch the rapid recovery after the tick was removed.
The chronic tick borne diseases in humans seem to be underdiagnosed by most traditional MDs but over diagnosed by some of the holistic docs who “specialize” in this.
I’ve mentioned it before but when I was about seven I waded hip-deep across a stream in rural Missouri and when I emerged I was covered with ticks, 50-100 of them. Shortly before I entered the stream it had been crossed by a herd of cattle.
My mom and then my pediatrician removed the ticks. I was sick as a dog, running a fever, and covered with boils for a week. I’ve never really been the same since. Oddly, I had boils recur in some of the places they’d been before for a dozen years afterwards.