OT: How Lymies see themselves (was) Herx reactions (was) Re: OT:

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You're right Lena,

We have to be constantly vigilant. For years doctors could find nothing wrong

with me, and then I was diagnosed by a friend with a pendulum, who also told me

what doctor to see. My doctor estimated I had LD at least 30 years in 2000.

Doctors can keep only so much information at the top of their minds. If they

haven't thought about something for a while, it gets buried. It all depends

what journals they read and what lectures they attend ... (usually sponsored by

Big Pharma!)

And Barbara--I agree with you! We're much safer if we can stay out of

hospitals!

Khaya

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> hi jim,

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> it's not just lyme the e.r. doesn't know about. in 2000 i went to the

> e.r. with c. difficil and twice they dx as the flu. one arrogant dr

> said he's never wrong and 'knew' it was the flu. well, a specialist

> in comm. disease was called in and said it was c.diff. i had a 104+

> temp, could keep nothing in/down and they were going to send me home.

> all my symptoms and history 'screamed' c.diff. and they couldn't

> figure it out.

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> then the benzo acute w/d symptoms. classic. yet they didn't know???

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> the e.r. is where they get these types of things more than a g.p would

> see. i know when i confronted the head of the e.r. about the 2

> misdiagnoses with the c.diff., he wanted to defend his dr. i kept

> repeating the question as to why they didn't know these classic

> symptoms, finally he said, 'i don't know, but will find out.' i said

> 'thank you.' they just didn't want to accept they missed it. i just

> wanted them not to miss it on the next patient. they did reverse the

> charge on one of the visits.

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> i told my husband i would never go back to this local hospital-the one

> where they thought i was a psych patient. i will go the 2 hrs to the

> next hospital. but i will be dying before i go again.

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> barbara