Re: GOD DAMN TICKS
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: vwhugger</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: AHL84GSRX-7</div><div class="ubbcode-body">My dad and uncle have both had Lyme's disease. I don't recommend it to anyone for a disease of last resort and I wouldn't wish it on anyone either. I'd go get some blood work done vw, and I'm the same way. I was sick for 2 weeks recently and finally went in with a temp of 103 and found out I have a bacterial blood infection. Just an example, getting it checked out is always the safe route. </div></div>
I did go in to the clinic but they didn't draw blood. I forgot to insist that they do that. They just gave me a prescription for a 10 day regimen of doxycycline, which I completed yesterday. I feel ok, never had any symptoms arise. All that's left of the bite itself is about a 4 millimeter scab. Hopefully, it's over. </div></div>
The antibiotic is under $10, the test is over $100. The world of medicine has been buzzing this past week over doctors being held on FELONY Medicare charges for "ordering unnecessary tests". Think that won't change how your do doctor practices? We are going to see medicine change fast.
Ticks are bad this year - but I think fleas are worse. I think there is a point when doctors should say - wait - this doesn't make sense, A+ B does not equal C and X + Y does not treat Z.
I am very wary of arthropod vectors and their diseases, including ticks and fleas. No one seems to acknowledge human flea infections except with respect to Occupy Wallstreet, but I hope some doctors get their collective heads out of their butts, pull out their microscopes and realize this "head lice" and "bed bug" epidemic we are seeing may not be head lice and bedbugs after all - head lice don't have a larval (worm) stage, nor do adult lice or bedbugs have genal combs. The fact that most (over 90%) of our flea research comes from none other than the House of Rothschild (Miriam Rothschild, specifically), and she was the first one to associate fleas with their ability to spread plague, aka the Black Death that wiped out one third of Europe, doesn't bode well with my reality. Any doctors or entomologists notice all the "dandruff" and "lint" that will either stick to the tip of a ball-point pen or leap 3 feet from it? Put it under your microscope! If any entomologist have any theories please clue me in because I am too darn tired to sort this out; I just don't buy what we are being told... I just think bedbugs and head lice are red-herrings. Lyme is the tip of the iceberg.
