For Lee - Re: Daughter diagnosed with RA

[Guest guest]

Hi Maz,

Thanks for the reply and info on Lyme's. We actually asked the first

rheumatologist for a

Lyme's test, but she never ordered it...or it was ordered and not done. Either

way, I was a

bit frustrated, as I only found out after a series of questions that the test

was never done.

I approach the Lyme's question with a little skepticism only due to my own past

experience with a positive diagnosis I got that I do not believe was accurate

.... for reasons

too many to go into here.

It's a great point considering her outdoor activities, though, and one I will be

sure to

follow up on. A few years ago, in fact, I had to pull a tick from my other

daughter's leg.

It looked like a large grain of dark sand.

Thanks again and God bless you

Lee

>

> Lee, did your daughter's doctor ask about previous tick exposure? The standard

tests

for Lyme are notoriously inaccurate, so even if she tests negative or equivocal,

Lyme

Disease is still possible. She plays and trains for soccer outside, which would

increase

greatly the chances of Lyme. My seropositive RA was triggered by Lyme Disease,

but not

everyone with Lyme and/or RA is seropositive, either. In my case, there must

have been a

strong genetic propensity and the Lyme infection just set it off. Also, joints

affected by

Lyme are typically non-symmetrical, although this, too, is not always the case.

>

....

> Peace, Maz

>

[Guest guest]

Dear Lee and all,

Please don't forget that new research indicates Lyme's is not just caused by

tick bites but also by other insect bites. I hear it's also mosquitoes and

how many times do we get bitten by those little devils. El

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From: rheumatic [mailto:rheumatic ] On Behalf

Of power2thefaint

Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2008 2:11 PM

rheumatic

Subject: rheumatic For Lee - Re: Daughter diagnosed with RA

Hi Maz,

Thanks for the reply and info on Lyme's. We actually asked the first

rheumatologist for a

Lyme's test, but she never ordered it...or it was ordered and not done.

Either way, I was a

bit frustrated, as I only found out after a series of questions that the

test was never done.

I approach the Lyme's question with a little skepticism only due to my own

past

experience with a positive diagnosis I got that I do not believe was

accurate ... for reasons

too many to go into here.

It's a great point considering her outdoor activities, though, and one I

will be sure to

follow up on. A few years ago, in fact, I had to pull a tick from my other

daughter's leg.

It looked like a large grain of dark sand.

Thanks again and God bless you

Lee

>

> Lee, did your daughter's doctor ask about previous tick exposure? The

standard tests

for Lyme are notoriously inaccurate, so even if she tests negative or

equivocal, Lyme

Disease is still possible. She plays and trains for soccer outside, which

would increase

greatly the chances of Lyme. My seropositive RA was triggered by Lyme

Disease, but not

everyone with Lyme and/or RA is seropositive, either. In my case, there must

have been a

strong genetic propensity and the Lyme infection just set it off. Also,

joints affected by

Lyme are typically non-symmetrical, although this, too, is not always the

case.

>

....

> Peace, Maz

>