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		<title>Personal Chronic Lyme Disease Support</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2009 21:43:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pamela Dodd</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Chronic Lyme Disease]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Having chronic Lyme Disease is no picnic. 

It’s often a lonely road with nowhere safe to turn for Lyme Disease help beyond your doctor’s office.  Mainly you feel lousy, sometimes for months or even years. This can have a major impact on your relationships, your job, and your pocketbook.  If all this isn't enough, you’ve got added stressors that don’t come along with other, better-known chronic illnesses.  Stressors like: Some people, including many doctors, don’t think Lyme is a real disease. They consider you mentally unstable if [...]

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		</p><p>you complain about your symptoms.  Beyond the insult of being told &#8220;it&#8217;s all in your head,&#8221; there are other equally frustrating stressors of having Lyme Disease.</p>
<p>Stressors like:</p>
<ul>
<li>Chronic Lyme shows up differently in each person.</li>
<li>Chronic Lyme treatment doesn’t follow any one particular protocol.</li>
<li>Healing chronic Lyme doesn’t follow any one particular path.</li>
<li>Healing chronic Lyme takes much longer than most patients, or their friends and families, expect.</li>
<li>Many doctors who treat for Lyme don’t understand how complex an illness it is and therefore don’t treat it long or comprehensively enough</li>
<li>Many doctors who successfully treat long-term Lyme patients do so under the radar of the traditional medical establishment because some have either lost or been threatened with losing their medical licenses.</li>
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<p>None of this is news to anyone who has struggled with chronic Lyme.  It&#8217;s very difficult to get well when you feel the deck in stacked against you.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>If you’re tired </strong><strong>of spending hours researching Lyme on the Web,<br />
If you’re confused about all the conflicting information,<br />
If you don&#8217;t feel comfortable sharing your health issues in a public forum,</strong></p>
<h2 style="text-align: center;">We can help!</h2>
<p>We can help you sort through the maze of options, information, and conflicting advice on Lyme. More important, we can provide you with personal support, daily if needed, to conquer your illness and regain your health (and sanity!).</p>
<p>While much of the information on this blog is free, soon we’ll launch a very reasonable membership service. By joining, you’ll be able to listen to monthly podcasts by an expert in the field of Lyme diagnosis and treatment and more importantly, be able to join others with chronic Lyme on your own private email list. Support at your fingertips from people who know about you and your specific health situation. Stay tuned for more information.</p>
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		<title>What is Lyme?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2009 21:22:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pamela Dodd</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[What is Lyme?]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lyme Disease is a bacterial infection commonly thought to be transmitted by the bite of an infected tick. When first infected, some people get a red bull&#8217;s-eye rash. Many don&#8217;t. You can feel like you have the flu with fever, headache, muscle pains, and maybe a stiff neck or swollen joints. If the disease is [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Lyme Disease is a bacterial infection commonly thought to be transmitted by the bite of an infected tick.  When first infected, some people get a red bull&#8217;s-eye rash.  Many don&#8217;t.  You can feel like you have the flu with fever, headache, muscle pains, and maybe a stiff neck or swollen joints.</p>
<p>If the disease is diagnosed and treated with antibiotics in the early stage, there&#8217;s a good chance of curing it so it goes away.  If unidentified and untreated, or not treated long enough, it can eventually become chronic, leading to a multi-system illness that is hard to manage and even harder to get totally rid of.   No area of the body is immune from Lyme.</p>
<p>There currently is no vaccine for Lyme.  Having it once provides no immunity. You can get it again.</p>
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