He was not willing waiting for a week and he formed a company, did make the supercomputer, standardized tests controls from a scratch, got FDI approval and brought back the results to the team of disapproving doctors and convinced them in a clinical board meeting in less than a week. I smell bullshit even when there is a picogram of it but this is the pure stuff.
@@subhabratadas8419 The only way I could make sense of that is that he was inspired by the experience with his daughter to embark on that project - his daughter didn't actually benefit from it, let alone within a week.
@Straight White Male yoooo i remember that episode where yugi and the gang go to that virual world where that rich guys sons mind is. Holy shit you just brought back memories i completely forgot about yugioh thanks for reminding me ima have to check it out again
Joe has this thing, where he gets an idea in his head and is so compelled to get it out that he stops listening. It's why jokes go over his head constantly. I noticed that too. I was shocked by him not showing more interest, but then I remembered: he tends to not listen and slip into a catatonic drift haha.
My sister died of complications caused by Lyme disease. It’s a horrible disease that effects the mind and body and it’s insane that so many people are misdiagnosed for years. Thanks for talking about this!
I'm watching lots of videos about lyme disease now to try and learn about it recently. That's horrible and saddening to hear. I was reading about the mortality rate stats on the disease. They have to be severely understated, right?
Very sorry to hear about your sister. I’m 15 years late Lyme, it’s been a nightmare that will not end. I thought the panic disorder and heart palpitations were bad 15 years ago, my mental decline the last 3 years has been way way worse. Have a brain MRI tomorrow, we’ll see how bad the damage is.
It's not even the tiny tick. It's the even smaller virus it transmits to you. The tick itself would otherwise be harmless. But I get your point. It's just the actual problem is microscopic, while you can at least see the ticks. with the naked eye.
@@yonyosef No worries, I always get those backwards. Either way, they suck. I had the same problem. Doctors basically just told me I had shitty joints and that's how some of us are made. Meanwhile, at 35 years old my knees were swelling to the size of Footballs. Eventually I came across a doc that was like "Well shit, you probably have Lyme's disease, seeing as you live 20 minutes away from Old Lyme". He tested me and I had more Antibodies than he had ever seen, meaning I had it for years, without being diagnosed. You would think that if you live in CT, it would be the first thing to check for with these kind of symptoms.
Look up "Lyme Disease Plum Island." I'm not into conspiracies, but sometimes conspiracies are actually true, and this one is incredibile. Lyme Disease is more than likely the result of Military Experiments on Plum Island
Lyme disease is horrifying. I’ve had symptoms for three years. I was bed ridden, tested for als, cancer, etc.. Even had a spinal tap. Lyme costed me my senior year of high school. No sports, party’s or fun. Just constantly in pain and tired. The worst part is that several of Lyme disease’s co infections aren’t detectable in the outdated standard test. To make things worst, the precise test is very expensive and not covered by insurance. Thank god for my awesome parents, they are out thousands of dollars. Congress needs to draft new, pro Lyme disease laws so people less fortunate don’t rot and die. I’m in a much better place after years of different antibiotics. Still on probiotics to this day
Same dude, I had it when I was 13-14 years old. All the doctors did for me was make assumptions and gave me a spinal tap not even considering the fact I had Lyme disease. I remember I never found out I had Lyme disease until my knee blew up the size of a soft ball and all the doctors said that I injured my knee. I never injured my knee in my life and all they did was make assumptions. Makes me wonder if I should've had my parent's sue the doctors for incompetency. But thank goodness my parents at the time took me to a good doctor who actually had me tested and put me on antibiotics.
Universal healthcare wouldn't even matter considering doctors aren't educated properly or much at all about lyme. I have full medicaid, do you think they're gonna cover a years worth of antibiotics for a disease that the cdc claims is easily treated with 2 weeks of antibiotics? And thats if your lucky enough to have it visible in bloodwork. We have to go to literate lyme doctors who don't take insurance because they can't have too much of a paper trail because long term antibiotic treatment can get their medical license revoked for essentially going against cdc guidelines. Universal healthcare would be stretched out way thinner than medicaid is and be quicker to deny people coverage or make them wait forever as the illness spreads. U.K. Doctors aren't exactly known for scheduling patients in a quick manner.
When i lived in mexico I got a tick and 2 days later I developed the bullseye around the bite. I went to the doctor and promptly gave me the antibiotics to combat lyme disease. After hearing all the horror stories I'm so thankful because that Mexican doctor saved my life.
@@christianjambou8208 yes it did, the doctors visit was 60 pesos = 3.33 usd and antibiotics for a month cost me 600 pesos = 33.33 usd. I'm surprised the doctor recognized it right away and gave me treatment for it. That was the first time I heard about the disease.
Had Lyme for 2 years. Still have excruciating joint pain. Had oral and IV antibiotics the whole time. Lost 100lbs and felt like death everyday. Thanks for the serious discussion on it Joe.
I have chronic pancreatitis and ever since everything hurts, I have never been so depressed, already have one suicide attempt under my belt, and yeah I feel like I'm dying every damn day, still wonder if I have some sort of Lyme disease that hasn't been caught or something, i am literally skin and bone
Definitely drink tea, but also go to a real doctor and get tested then treated. Tea and ginger, will do nothing but hydrate you and not treat the bacteria.
I had a list of probably over 100 symptoms I had when I had lyme. Vertigo. Insomnia. Extreme weakness. Felt like I was being shocked at times. Bell's palsy. Muscles would move on their own. Etc. 10 years and finally started feeling better. Don't mess around if you ever feel bad after being in the woods. I had no mark or anything.
Last summer my mom got this weird version of Lyme where the tests didn’t detect it. It got to the point where her skin got pearly, her face drooped like a severe stroke victim, her eyes droopy like a dachshund, she couldn’t move her arms above her chest without shaking. Her body constantly felt like pins and needles all day long. It actually got to the point where she needed a walker and couldn’t get around easily. Worst of all she couldn’t eat food, it just fell out of her mouth. After seeing that I nearly broke down thinking my mom was gonna die. It took about 3 months of her going to the hospital constantly to get treated. Absolutely insane how the doctors couldn’t detect it.
Interviewee: Yeah so we have this supercomputer that is basically changing the game in Medicine and could save millions of lives Joe: Wow, yeah Lyme disease is like super scary man I know a couple people who got it
I'm shocked I have not seen the ubiquitous quotation phrase.. I was thinking I would see right away, Joe " Lyme disease is like super scary man" Rogan.
Had Lyme disease and mono in the same year. Lost all my scholarship offers. Had to quit all sports and my passions. Barely had a brain to think left. Mind was foggy all the time. I beat Lyme thank god but my ebv reactivated. If it would have been treated sooner I probably wouldn’t have any chronic fatigue today. But since I’m 17 they prescribed me antidepressants because they thought I was stressed. I got very lucky as they were blindly treating me without knowing how I was ill. They gave me a z pack and a steroid because they thought I had the flu, even though flu test came back negative, which is probably the worst think you can do, is give someone a steroid when they have Lyme. I’m in a state that rarely ever has Lyme cases(atlanta, ga) Combine that with abusive coaches and parents and I almost killed myself on numerous occasions. I still don’t know how I made it through all that. I’m thankful that I didn’t now, life has so much to offer when you’re not in bed 24/7.
Ben Jensen i had the same combo my senior year of high school. Worst thing. Turns out i had it tracing back 13 years but they never caught it. Ended up having the highest levels of Lyme in all of CT because it was untreated. Still dealing with the symptoms over 10 years later.
PaulSyp my family doctor insisted I had the flu and said to wait it out. Then I went to urgent care and they ruled the flu out after they tested for it, as well as a lot of other things, so after they couldn’t find anything they decided to just give me a z pack and a steroid. Sorry for the confusion
It's really comforting to see Lyme's being recognized with such compassion. Most people are completely unaware of what it is, outside the name. I was recently diagnosed and have had it for what seems to be at least the past 8 years. The worse was not knowing what was wrong with me, plenty of early signs that had shown but most american doctors are as ignorant of Lyme's as the general population. Really appreciate the right words being said by Joe, David, and the community.
I'm glad this information is being shared more and more, especially on a platform like the JRE. My mother got Lyme disease around 2010, but we didn't even know what Lyme disease was until it was too late to treat with antibiotics. She ended up losing the battle last year, although seeing all the progress that has been made regarding Lyme gives me hope for the future. #BeTickAware
Same with me. I pulled out the tick. I developed the bull's eye. And I felt like a zombie from the Waking Dead for a whole week. Doc did a test, and it came back negative. But he gave me the antibiotic ANYWAY. That cleared me up in 24 hours!
This breaks my heart, I've had lyme disease for 18 years and now I'm pretty much bed ridden. But the fact that there are possible solutions when I have no money and am literally on my death bed breaks my heart, to be truthful I am only 36 years old.
Research something called the one minute cure, you can absolutely get better it worked for my severe lyme but its a serious treatment with not much research so i can't blindly recommend it to everyone who mentions lyme but your post honestly breaks my heart.
@@OthO67 yep misdiagnosed until recently, nasty medical system. I have been medicating for a long time and it is a godsend but this lyme disease is holds no bars. I would literally give myself to David's research, I have no hope and would happily be a test subject. Much love to everyone
I hope you both get the antibiotics you need. I would definitely try go fund me.com. With your conditions people would donate quickly for a genuine and life changing cause.
I live in connecticut, where lyme disease was first diagnosed, honestly i’ve been screaming this from the rooftops for the past 2 years. glad it’s finally getting attention.
It’s been almost one year since I had to travel from my country of Canada 🇨🇦 to Germany 🇩🇪 because there no help here and I was dying and Germany does it . St Georg Klink has changed my whole life . Hardest 3 weeks of my life in hospital but I’m living my best life again !!!
The protocol for treating Lyme is especially atrocious. I'm blown away by how awful this approach has been and the length of time this incompetency has lasted. It makes me wonder if there's something like the Tuskegee Experiment going on. Peoples lives are being ruined as a result of not getting the antibiotic in time and/or the insurance not paying for the entire duration of the treatment. Its unbelievable.
Perhaps. And then there's my friend who's been diagnosed, has the meds, and isn't taking them. Because he wants to find out how bad it gets? He's a neurotic fool.
Perhaps. And then there's my friend who's been diagnosed, has the meds, and isn't taking them. Because he wants to find out how bad it gets? He's a neurotic fool.
@@MattFoleysGhost In all honesty. It is probably going to turn into the worst decision of his entire life. The people who don't get treatment in time are usually DONE. I know two who's lives are entirely ruined because of this shit. One of them tried killing themselves after a decade of it. Your friend is probably the most naive person I've encountered in terms of stories I've heard. He won't think it's so funny a few yrs of being condemned to a bed and requiring a nurse to pry him off it to aid the circulation of the blood. During my undergrad, I was heavily involved in a study conducted at Binghamton University, where we actually collected over 500 specimen from a commonly walked trail at Chenango State Park in Chenango Bridge. After testing, we found that 31% of the specimen were infected w Lyme. Later that same semester, one of the leading experts in the North East gave a lecture on deer ticks and Lyme and there were nearly 1000 people there who were in attendance. Almost all of them were infected and they had experienced a terrible ordeal in fighting Lyme. Folks went through multiple treatments, but the treatments were administered wrong, which the Dr explained. Many of those folks will be sick until the day they die, simply because it wasn't caught in time or the antibiotic treatment wasn't extended long enough. In short, your friend is a total fucking idiot and he deserves what he gets. Ignorance knows no bounds.
insurance is the key, it is way more cost effective for them to pay doctors, etc.to pretend it is no big whoop, the sad(est) part is, it will go on and on, and these scumbags will pretend they are upstanding humans...because ordinary humans are now for the most part complacent and scared.
@@gpl211212 Yeah, I just don't get it man. We literally have the cure and this cat and mouse game has somehow become protocol in the treatment process. You are right though, in most instances, it's the insurance companies not covering the antibiotic.
Love this guy for doing this for his daughter. He very likely saved her life, I’ve known people to be killed by Lyme disease from ticks. Since I was a little kid it was the scariest thing
I've been suffering from chronic lyme for the last decade. I've seen dozens of doctors and undertaken months of antibiotic treatment protocols and still have persistent symptoms that make regular life impossible. The brain fog, fatigue, joint pain, nerve pain, etc.. is 24/7. I'm still fighting for my life and will continue to do my own research and live as healthy as possible. The keto diet is actually great for lyme but hard to keep up. Podcasts like Joe Rogan and Tim Ferriss have introduced me to methods for treating lyme that I wouldn't have entertained otherwise. I'm very thankful for people like David Sinclair out there trying to help people fight this awful disease.
I find sugar even fruit sugar makes symptoms worse. Cutting out all grains and sugars helps. I’m trying Osha root and Japanese knotweed herbs they are natural antibiotics. We will see if they help, three weeks in I have more energy and less discomfort and pain.
I got Lyme disease my junior year of high school and have never felt closer to death before in my entire life. Whole body felt like it was shutting down :/
Christopher Melvin I went to every hospital in my city and they all told me it was a severe case of the flu but my parents weren’t buying it so they took me to a specialist, there he ran blood work and found traces of the disease. They kept me over night to run some more tests and sent me home the next morning with a antibiotic (which I took for a couple of weeks).
@@splicegains Look up Ilads.org and use their protocol or find a LLMD trained by them. It saved my life. 2 weeks of Ab doesn't cut it or cure it. My LLMD; when I found him, looked at my labs and put me on 3 Ab pulsed for over a month. I knew it was working by the herx that began almost immediately. I'm at about 95% where I want to be. Be your own advocate...
As I have aged, I have noted that Doctors are less and less needed. They have a decision ladder they use that could be utilized by a nurse or yourself, with over cite. They adhere to this ladder no matter what, and a huge problem is this ladder is wholly influenced by insurance companies.
I’ve had chronic Lyme disease for over 12 years. I didn’t know wtf was wrong with me until 5 years ago. So many terrible symptoms. I wouldn’t wish it on my worst enemy.
Let's say a patient comes into my office during the early Spring or summer and has symptoms of headache, joint pain, maybe fever, I will order the labs and start doxycycline on the patient immediately before the tests come in. Better to be safe than sorry. This happens in South Texas every year, endemic typhus and Rocky Mountain spotted fever are much more common than Lyme down here.
I live on the east coast not far from Lyme CT. I was diagnosed with Lyme about 7 years ago. I did not know I was infected as I did not see a tick or bullseye legion. For a couple weeks I thought I had the flu until large legions started to show up on my body from head to toe. At that point I was experiencing extreme fatigue and irrational thought patterns - mood swings, irritability and so on. I’m doing much better now and the only residual effect is trouble regulating body temperature. When I’m cold I don’t just shiver, my body would lock up and tremble desperately trying to generate heat. It almost looks like a mild seizure. I’m not sure who to trust as a medical professional as the trend is to push pills instead of curiosity to further a diagnosis. There are doctors who study Lyme but not everyone can pursue those doctors due to insurance limitations. I’m young though very curious on how it will affect me later in life. Don’t know if anyone will read this. But I’m sure there are folks who will consider or relate to my experience.
@seanhanson8525 I'm well. It's been 10 and a half years now and the post-lyme related symptoms are rare. I have to be proactive about situations where a flare-up can happen. For example, last new years (a cold night) I left a party and carpooled a couple friends home. The car was maybe 20ft from the house and half way my body locked up real bad and it was a bit painful. Similar to swimming in icey water and your muscles stiffen. I made it to the car and had to wait a bit for it to warm up and for my body to free up before I could drive. It doesn't always happen. But when it does I just try to power through. All I can do. There a bunch of long term side effects, especially if the infection is prolonged/undiagnosed like mine was. But your lifestyle and health will keep them tolerable and more-or-less unnoticeable. The antibiotics kicked my butt for a bit. The tuff part it relating to people while going through it - they have no idea. I hope you have the lesser of it all and bounce back quick ✌️
I’ve lived in southeastern CT most of my life and I spend a lot of time in the woods. I’m amazed I’ve never gotten lyme. I literally went to high school with a bunch of people from Old Lyme.
For the last several years, my mother and I have had to help my father through various horrific episodes of epilepsy induced by focal seizures, which are a rare and difficult-to-treat type of seizure disorder. Over the last five years, he has had three major episodes, and a few minor ones, for which we would take him to the ER at UPenn Hospital, purportedly one of the best hospitals in the country, if not the world. Every time we would take him would end up feeling worse than if we hadn't taken him in at all. I have no illusions that the medical staff at UPenn know immeasurably more than I do about this kind of stuff, but knowledge and competence weren't the problem. Arrogance and systemic failure were. They would rotate doctors every day each time we went in to get my father treated, which meant information on his condition had to be constantly relayed to the next doctor on duty who would always have their own opinions about what to do about it. Each time we took him, there would be nights where the doctors would instruct their nurses to give my father a ton of different medications that we knew he wasn't supposed to have, or to deprive him of medicines that we knew he needed, all to experiment with him and see what would work and what wouldn't. Despite the fact that we have been dealing with his disorder for years (and using treatments administered by their own doctors, I might add), they chose to completely disregard us and do things their own way to my father's expense. There were nights we had to drive an hour at midnight to get to the city to be with him because the asshole staff put him into medically-induced nightmare frenzies and would refuse to administer the proper medications to him unless we drove down there and threw a fit in the middle of the hospital. It's really a terrifying thing. Doctors are the people who know most about this kind of stuff, and yet in this country, when it comes to actually helping people, they're incredibly inept and even downright harmful because of all the backlogging, insurance quibbles, and administrative bullshit.
@@ECP90 Well, he's pretty fine now, so luckily their poor caregiving isn't a pertinent issue right now. As for CBD, I'm not sure how efficacious that would be for something like focal seizures, and even if it did work, I hesitate to make my dad dependent on a substance that has such a precarious legal status throughout the country. I use it myself for chronic headaches, but I wouldn't know how someone with seizures might react to using it for a long time and then being forced to quit it cold turkey because of changes in the law.
We have people in this country that don't believe its real. My wife had Lymes disease when she was younger. We were at Fort Gordon Georgia, and she mentioned to her doctor (on post) that she had it. She was pregnant and thought it was important to tell the doctor. The doctor went off about how it wasn't a real disease and blah blah blah. This was in 2007. We demanded a new doctor after that, and the first thing we asked the new doctor was if he thought it was real. He was confused and said yes, then we explained why. He shook is head in disbelief.
@Zwenk Wiel I understand that, but said she had a positive test in the past. It wasn't like we said, "So um, web MD said the symptoms were this and that is what I had." He was just totally dismissive and said doctors up North were wrong about it. Like it was some grand conspiracy.
I just want to say thank you to all the medical staff that helped diagnose and cure me within hours of dying from Lymes disease. The symptoms were terrible fatigue, twitching and itching.
I have been a solo hiker for almost 30 years - primarily in New Hampshire and Vermont. Every year I went hiking, I would check out the lime tick numbers,and I would take this to my doctor. I would request a few doxycycline for the trip. Since it was relatively safe o take just a couple (so I've been told, and have read to verify) I would take 2 or 3 in a 10 day trip. I did this because you will be bitten numerous times by lots of things. So far, no lyme disease. I think this is a reasonable precaution.
I had Lymes disease when I was 10. They couldn't figure out what was wrong with me for a long time. Doctors said I had mono. Treated for that, and seemed to get better for a while. Then I started getting joint pain, my wrists and knees were the worst. Knees ended up swelling to the size of grapefruits (remember I was 10 at the time so I am talking massive knees), and I could barely walk. Ended up going to a children's specialist, and got diagnosed with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis. Took them months to even test for Lyme disease. Ended having to get a spinal tap and 4 separate knee taps to drain all the puss from my knees. Eventually got a pic line put in and was treated that way. Luckily this helped. I regained full mobility and haven't looked back.
Lyme changed my life. I was diagnosed in 2011 and still have symptoms; arthritis & fibromyalgia. It went undiagnosed for months & I went from being a 135lb student athlete to a 115lb homebound sick kid. Initially, I had a pic line to my heart for 5 months, IV treatments 5 times a week. I've still never been the same
@Galva Tron wow. You know i can kinda i.ahine how you feel i was diagnosed with Anklosing Spondylitis when i was 20 but it took almost a year to fo d a guy who could actually diagnose me while i was just grtting worse as nd worse (pic line in my arm for 10 months) now im taking Enbrel shots and mostly live like i used to im back to downhill skating and riding motorcycles but i will never be %100. Stay strong
Ugh the pic line was the worst. I had it for 13 years before they caught it and still have symptoms that definitely hinder my life and i know it’s not going to end anytime soon. Just gotta keep going.
I have lyme and i was desperate enough to try something known as the one minute cure which involves heavily diluting food grade hydrogen peroxide and drinking it. I don't recommend it because theres not much real scientific data on it, but all anecdotal evidence went something like it worked great with no horrorific consequences or it worked alright but the herx effect was too much for for (The same effect antibiotics have where you get really ill because all the lyme is dying and their toxins running through your system ) and all the naysayers online were people with no education or experience with it basically giving their gut reaction and saying it must be horrible/deadly, I cured like 80 to 90% Of my symptoms and my primary doctor was shocked at how my bloodwork showed a huge drop in my lyme levels and most strains i originally was found to be positive for now read non-reactive, so I know the treatment works but research everything possible before even thinking about it.
I have been struggling with lyme disease for so many years. I contracted it as a child after a tick-bite. I did not develop the bulls-eye rash as many people don't - though I did have all of the symptoms. Tested positive many years later after significant health decline.
I saw youtube videos from a few years ago of people trying to get legislation passed in Pennsylvania (or some state in that area) to get Lyme more acknowledged in the medical community and give doctors the ability to prescribe antibiotics for Lyme and it be covered by insurance. There was something preventing them from prescribing the antibiotics because they often need to be taken for an extended period of time for Lyme Disease
Got lyme disease when i was 14, didn't realize until 6 months or so had passed cuz the school nurse saw the bullseye mark on my right lower leg. Fortunately, I was on of those who only got the mild symptoms of pain, poor sleep, no hunger, shit like that. Boy am I happy I'm not one of those people who got paralyzed or suffered from a brain haemorrhage.
I had severe Lyme..When I was 8 years old I was missed diagnosed by a doctor in the East Coast telling my family it was just Ring Worm and I ended up letting the lyme develop in my body for a full year which was deadly. The right symptoms were not present in that full year. It wasn’t until I started having razor sharp pains shooting across my body and up my spine causing me to collapse on the ground instantly in tears and when I started having bell’s palsy causing me to not smile correctly. It was SOO bad to the point I would walk into my parents room and tell them “I cant think” my brain had so much of the symptom “Brain Fog” that I literally couldn’t create thoughts / vision a scene in my brain at times, I could only speak out loud to think what I wanted. Though luckily I was very fortunate to work with the number #1 lyme doctor in the word according to the community, Dr Raxlen, and still today he is practicing. I’m in my late twenties now and my life is way better thanks to the right antibiotics and physical therapy back then. Though the disease sometimes actually never leaves the body like in my case now in 2019 where the lyme is “Relapsing” and no longer dormant but now active. It’s like the VENOM disease/comic just hanging inside me and hurting me when it wants. I am back on potent antibiotics and kicking the diseases ass again though! Some symptoms are permanent like the Joints he mentioned. Every day I have stress in my neck and must twitch it 24\7 and my wrist for example are so bad that I cant even hold my girlfriends hand for longer than a few minutes with out having to crack it or rotate my wrists a bit. Sometimes random fatigue will occur like my body is exhausted from dealing with the bug war inside of me making normal days a challenge I step up to. Granted though, I am very happy with my life and live a very normal one with Lyme symptoms I just adapted to, life carry’s on! Just wanted to sure a inside look to how bad Lyme Disease Is. Always strip down and check all areas of your body for Ticks after hiking/being in the grass please!!
Hey diRig, you said you had lyme disease for a year without getting any helpful treatment? I have a family member who is suffering from lyme disease and she has been to so many different doctors and specialists that they cant even identify the lyme and help her. She is suffering so much and she has had lyme for almost year now. Do you know or can recommend any treatment that will work? Is there a specific antibiotic that will help significantly? Please anything.
My Grandpa got a tick disease during harvest “he’s a farmer” and he doesn’t have the stability or heat tolerance he use to but he still can handle a lot.
My mother was mis-diagnosed for Lyme Disease for many many years. She was in the hospital for all of my childhood and even had a spinal procedure done because of some diagnosis. She had an app on her phone to remind her which medications to take every day. Every once and a while she still has bad days, but the good days are growing steadily over the last few years. My sister and my step-dad both tested positive for Lyme as well, but I don't. Really terrifying.
My dad got lyme disease in 2013 and when he went to the hospital after his muscles seizing out for 8 hours they called him a pill seeker... luckily he found a doctor that would treat him and now he is better. Always check for ticks because that disease is hell.
I enjoy spending time outdoors and have found ticks latched on me several times but not engorged, but I haven't had any sympotoms except hives. So I don't know if I have it or not
There’s a lot of Lymes cases around where I live so the doctors don’t wait for the test results. If you’ve got any symptoms at all they’ll start you on doxycycline immediately. The bullseye doesn’t show up at all sometimes. It can be blotchy red spots or joint swelling more commonly.
I live in Columbia County NY which has the distinction of being the world capital of Lyme-carrying ticks. I got Lyme for the 4th time last year, the symptoms never go away and it serious has people terrified to leave their house.
@@psyience3213 Let me take an educated guess. You don't have Lyme and clearly you don't know anyone who has it either? You are extremely fortunate!! I am honestly & sincerely grateful you don't. I wouldn't have believed it either! "Conspiracy? What complete BS!" If didn't know first hand.. I can remember being that naive, too. And my ignorance was absolutely bliss. You don't get it, until you get it. Peace, Health & Love to you~💚~
2 years ago, 2 months in NJ and I got bit by a tick. Bullseyes and everything, I got the antibiotics almost right away. From time to time my wrist hurt like hell, and I get a bit feverish but nothing more, it goes away and I forget. I'm not sure if this monster is still in my system?
@@cizia69 Sadly, I'm not surprised. There is so much I'm still not sure about. Vaccinations (and booter shots) - I've been advised to NOT even get the flu shot. I know I need a tetus shot but I keep getting conflicting information, even from Doctors to Pharmacists. (Basic lack of knowledge on a global scale. I DO know that steroids could damn near be fatal (for me) and if needed, I'd be hospitalized. Definitely the worst thing about Lyme is that it's different for every single patient~💚~
cizia69 I got lyme 10 years ago bud, took doxycycline for a month and totally forgot about it...6 months ago i started getting really hot, particularly my back and neck. Turns out the lyme (which actually hides in your body, lying dormant for years) came back with a vengence. Doxycycline was no longer effective in fighting it and im still struggling with symptoms as im writing this. My biggest piece of advice I can give you is this; Stay in touch with the way your body feels. If you begin to notice anything unusual about your sleeping habits, feeling tired, achey, or begin feeling feverish DONT WAIT to get bloodwork done, specifically looking for lyme. Lyme actually feeds off sugary and fatty, processed foods, so try eating as healthy as you can manage if you want to prevent it from coming back. Its tough, but really try...its worth it, take it from me, as someone who wished they had.
I had Lyme disease when I was 12. I first noticed it when I saw a ring on my leg very similar to ring worm. But we shrugged it off. Well how we finally found out that I had it, was when I woke up for school one morning and I couldn't fully shut my eyes no matter how hard I tired, and it was hard to smile and frown on the right side of my mouth. That's an effect of Bell's palsy, which you get along side Lyme disease if you let it go on for so long without treatment. Oh and I basically got minor arthritis in my left knee and hip. Not too bad onvmost days, but there are some days where I dread standing up cause it's gonna hurt like hell
Have had it for 7 years and trust me when I say I was on the verge of dying. I feel now 75% healed and I gotta say most importantly are a couple of things that are absolutely miraculous. 1) FODMAP diet, 2) ASEA products 3) right supplementation and NATURAL alternatives like stevia, cat's claws, CBD oil etc. Trust me this shit takes a long time, but if you can do all of that AND focus on just yourself, also your mental health and sleep you will heal 100% I've had a couple of days completely symptoms free and now know alll of that is achievable and will get to it.
I've had chronic Lyme disease for ten years. I got infected when I was sixteen years old. I found the ticks, but I didn't know what they were, as no one ever talked about them or the dangers of Lyme disease and other TBI, so I just brushed it off. My life fell apart. It took years to figure things out, what was wrong with me, and what I could possibly do to get better. I've been using a lot of alternative medicines, like essential oils, TCM herbs, tinctures, etc. I'm still not right. I live a half-life. There's no aspect of your life that goes untouched - it's not just a physical illness, but mental and spiritual as well. You're just not the same. What's more, my future is uncertain. I'm just scraping by, living a basic existence. I need more help. We need more help. There's a lot of us, and the numbers continue to grow. But ,yeah, Lyme disease sucks. Be careful out there, guys. See a doctor, if you suspect a bite, and be assertive, as a lot of these doctors don't know shit about it and are talking out of their asses. edit: Also, if anyone is into books, that "Brad Pitt movie" was based on a book that's a hundred miles better. lol
I've had probably 20 ticks on me in my lifetime, I feel great. The dog used to get one every time we went out to the woods, but the vet had a shitfit and gave him some pills and they don't bite him anymore. It seems like if something as harmless as a tick can kill someone now, the world has gone to shit.
About 17 years ago My mother did some work over in the states and for some reason when she came back she was absolutely obsessed with Lyme disease and west Nile disease (she never had it FYI). It's not really something people talk about much in the UK but it sounds proper scary!
I had a camping trip from hell where i fell into a ravine and ripped all of the connective tissue in my right ankle and had to crawl for hours. I had so many tick bite all over my body i had to get treated for lyme disease, the medicine tetracyclines can be pretty rough with the nausea and vomiting but it beats lyme disease. LOL
Family friend got lyme disease and without very expensive and constant physical therapy he is almost completely crippled from the neck down, never knew it was so crazy.
I’m so lucky I went to a walk-in clinic for a different blood test but the dr ordered Lyme test because I had all symptoms. I was bed ridden for years with no diagnosis, it’s a nightmare. But I been in treatment for 6 months and I already feel so much better I’m so mad I wasn’t diagnosed sooner.
Someone very close to me got Lyme disease but was consistently misdiagnosed. It just kept getting g worse. Air hunger, inability to focus, headaches, joint pains, shaking. Then she finally met a specialist who believed it was Lyme Disease and then ran tests to confirm it. She got on antibiotics and started feeling better. However, not everyone responds to antibiotics very well. Furthermore, not all Lyme disease is the same plus the confections. So the antibiotics slowly stopped working. What ended up working for her was seeing a TCM doctor. I would have never thought to, but she had tried so many things, it was worth a try. She took what he suggested and she's been better ever since. Not 100% but she says about 93% which is a lot better than before. Everybody's body is different and will react to diseases as well as treatments differently. So try different things. What upset me the most was how dismissive the physicians were when she'd try to mention that she was bite by a tick. 1. If they don't see the bull's-eye, as mentioned in the video, they don't believe you. 2. Many physicians don't believe Lyme disease to be that big of a deal. 3. The treatment protocol (Doxycycline) doesn't work for everyone. I hope things get better before they get worse. Though by the rising number of Lyme disease cases it appears it's already gotten worse. At least those cases were properly diagnosed.
I live in Vermont and about 10 years ago I would never have even thought about a tick. Now, I can't even step into my front yard without picking up a deer tick (more than half carry Lyme). It is terrifying how many there are and the rate in which they are increasing year by year. I think it partly has to do with winters being too warm for them to die off, but they have become a serious problem. and not enough people are talking about it.
Jesus Christ, this shit spooked me. I had Lyme disease almost ten years ago, but it likely wouldn’t have been spotted if my mom wasn’t a pediatrician. So thankful we caught it early.
I've had it since 2014. The first year was a complete living hell. I have self treated with herbs the whole time. I work full time, still feel pretty awful most of the time. I wouldn't wish it on my worse enemy. On top of making you feel like shit physically, the neurological symptoms make you feel insane.
I take cats claw 500 mg 3 times a day. Eleuthero root 520 mg once a day. Cordyceps mushroom 520 mg once a day. I eat very little sugar, it makes it worse. I also take japanese knotweed occasionally. Start slowly on the herbs, they can make you feel much worse at first. I don't feel great, but i'm a lot better than i was in 2014.
My friend has Lyme, it makes me sad that it hurts him that bad. Keeps getting bad headaches and feels tired. And he pays big money for medicine imported from Belgium.
Its not a conspiracy, it was a biological weapon developed on plum island that escaped, was picked up by ticks, the ticks were picked up by birds that flew to lyme Connecticut (the closest place to plum island)
I didn't get Lyme disease but I did get Rocky Mountain Tick Fever when I was 19 and it gave me epilepsy, AS, osteoporosis, and degenerative disk disease. Plus a whole list of mental issues I never had before. I had no idea a tick could give you life altering diseases and not many people realize the extent of the damage they can do.
On point again . Just went to tick awareness seminar at local cooperative extension . Didn't realize how big the problem is in the northeast . They start out small as a poppy seed . Hard to notice . I have never found one on myself just dogs , by then they are usually pretty fat . Have to remove them properly or they regurgitate fluids into you adding to possible risks . Thanks and keep up the good work .
The Morning Purr had a tick when I was in 5th grade wanna say it was 10 years ago, haven’t really had any symptoms, also my tick was in South Kentucky where Lyme is not a bad. But at the back of my mind I still wonder, my doctor said I would probably have shown symptoms years ago but I still worry.
I've had tons of ticks throughout my life mostly from Scotland (first one was about age 6 and was on my eyelid), lyme disease is thankfully still pretty rare to catch
My dad has this, luckily he did have a spot on his leg for him to notice. The spot was there for quite a while before he went in, you know, being a typical guy. (He never goes to the doc) then he started having crazy symptoms. Went in and sure enough he needed some horse pills for it. He said the symptoms were so intense he thought he must have gotten the flu. What’s crazy is that once you have it, like mono, it is always present in your body, right?
i once had to split firewood in the summer, got home and relized i had over 100 ticks on me, over 20 in each armpit. I do alot of working outdoore every summer and always find ticks on me. I had 2 huge bullseyes on me, but was told there was not a single case of lymes in MD but found out it was very common here a few days later, but i never went to doc about it. To this day everytime i see a doc or go to hospital i always tell them about how weak and sore my joints are and that im always tired and tell them about the two bullseyes i had yrs before and they dont do anything about it. I hope everytime you get a bullseye from a tick it doesnt mean lymes cause ive had hundreds of them but only two huge one. Docs always blame my sore joints and me being tired is from hard work but im really starting to think i have it. Ima get it checked asap and demand them to test me for lymes
Dads little girl was sick so he built a super computer to save her. Dad of the year...
He was not willing waiting for a week and he formed a company, did make the supercomputer, standardized tests controls from a scratch, got FDI approval and brought back the results to the team of disapproving doctors and convinced them in a clinical board meeting in less than a week. I smell bullshit even when there is a picogram of it but this is the pure stuff.
My dad just said "stop being a pussy"
@@subhabratadas8419 The only way I could make sense of that is that he was inspired by the experience with his daughter to embark on that project - his daughter didn't actually benefit from it, let alone within a week.
NO! Father of the decade
@Straight White Male yoooo i remember that episode where yugi and the gang go to that virual world where that rich guys sons mind is. Holy shit you just brought back memories i completely forgot about yugioh thanks for reminding me ima have to check it out again
This dude just explained how they might have solved the issues of prolonged or mis-diagnosed diseases and Joe completely missed that.
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Joe has this thing, where he gets an idea in his head and is so compelled to get it out that he stops listening. It's why jokes go over his head constantly.
I noticed that too. I was shocked by him not showing more interest, but then I remembered: he tends to not listen and slip into a catatonic drift haha.
Made me lolz thanks!
@D D I think it's called weed.
My sister died of complications caused by Lyme disease. It’s a horrible disease that effects the mind and body and it’s insane that so many people are misdiagnosed for years. Thanks for talking about this!
I'm watching lots of videos about lyme disease now to try and learn about it recently. That's horrible and saddening to hear. I was reading about the mortality rate stats on the disease. They have to be severely understated, right?
Very sorry to hear about your sister.
I’m 15 years late Lyme, it’s been a nightmare that will not end.
I thought the panic disorder and heart palpitations were bad 15 years ago, my mental decline the last 3 years has been way way worse. Have a brain MRI tomorrow, we’ll see how bad the damage is.
5:32 "I started spouting biology so they knew something about it."
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Hahaha underrated comment here ^^^
Lmao thanks for making me laugh
is that from DARK MANNE?
Sashin It is.. and genius, it is, as well.
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Lyme disease is no joke. And the fact that a tiny little tick can devastate a human body is absolutely terrifying to me.
It's not even the tiny tick. It's the even smaller virus it transmits to you. The tick itself would otherwise be harmless. But I get your point. It's just the actual problem is microscopic, while you can at least see the ticks. with the naked eye.
@@yonyosef No worries, I always get those backwards. Either way, they suck. I had the same problem. Doctors basically just told me I had shitty joints and that's how some of us are made. Meanwhile, at 35 years old my knees were swelling to the size of Footballs. Eventually I came across a doc that was like "Well shit, you probably have Lyme's disease, seeing as you live 20 minutes away from Old Lyme". He tested me and I had more Antibodies than he had ever seen, meaning I had it for years, without being diagnosed. You would think that if you live in CT, it would be the first thing to check for with these kind of symptoms.
so did they cure it, if so how did they do so?
@Stephen Indeed. I've heard it referred to as the new "B cell AIDS."
Look up "Lyme Disease Plum Island."
I'm not into conspiracies, but sometimes conspiracies are actually true, and this one is incredibile.
Lyme Disease is more than likely the result of Military Experiments on Plum Island
Lyme disease is horrifying. I’ve had symptoms for three years. I was bed ridden, tested for als, cancer, etc.. Even had a spinal tap. Lyme costed me my senior year of high school. No sports, party’s or fun. Just constantly in pain and tired. The worst part is that several of Lyme disease’s co infections aren’t detectable in the outdated standard test. To make things worst, the precise test is very expensive and not covered by insurance. Thank god for my awesome parents, they are out thousands of dollars. Congress needs to draft new, pro Lyme disease laws so people less fortunate don’t rot and die. I’m in a much better place after years of different antibiotics. Still on probiotics to this day
Ooooor maybe...u know, universal healthcare???
Same dude, I had it when I was 13-14 years old. All the doctors did for me was make assumptions and gave me a spinal tap not even considering the fact I had Lyme disease. I remember I never found out I had Lyme disease until my knee blew up the size of a soft ball and all the doctors said that I injured my knee. I never injured my knee in my life and all they did was make assumptions. Makes me wonder if I should've had my parent's sue the doctors for incompetency. But thank goodness my parents at the time took me to a good doctor who actually had me tested and put me on antibiotics.
How do you feel now? Like do you feel how you felt before Lyme disease or different?
Universal healthcare wouldn't even matter considering doctors aren't educated properly or much at all about lyme. I have full medicaid, do you think they're gonna cover a years worth of antibiotics for a disease that the cdc claims is easily treated with 2 weeks of antibiotics? And thats if your lucky enough to have it visible in bloodwork. We have to go to literate lyme doctors who don't take insurance because they can't have too much of a paper trail because long term antibiotic treatment can get their medical license revoked for essentially going against cdc guidelines. Universal healthcare would be stretched out way thinner than medicaid is and be quicker to deny people coverage or make them wait forever as the illness spreads. U.K. Doctors aren't exactly known for scheduling patients in a quick manner.
My dad has it and he said it's some of the worst pain he's ever had
When i lived in mexico I got a tick and 2 days later I developed the bullseye around the bite. I went to the doctor and promptly gave me the antibiotics to combat lyme disease. After hearing all the horror stories I'm so thankful because that Mexican doctor saved my life.
I went to my doctor about my thick but he just said I was born that way so I should learn to enjoy digging ditches
It probably cost you very little as well since you didn't have to pay the fat pigs of so called "health care " in the States.
@@christianjambou8208 yes it did, the doctors visit was 60 pesos = 3.33 usd and antibiotics for a month cost me 600 pesos = 33.33 usd. I'm surprised the doctor recognized it right away and gave me treatment for it. That was the first time I heard about the disease.
Doctors in Mexico are a lot different than the ones here. You tell them how you’re feeling and usually they won’t argue
At least it wasn't the kissing bug
Had Lyme for 2 years. Still have excruciating joint pain. Had oral and IV antibiotics the whole time. Lost 100lbs and felt like death everyday. Thanks for the serious discussion on it Joe.
I have chronic pancreatitis and ever since everything hurts, I have never been so depressed, already have one suicide attempt under my belt, and yeah I feel like I'm dying every damn day, still wonder if I have some sort of Lyme disease that hasn't been caught or something, i am literally skin and bone
Did you get muscle twitching?
I’m so thankful they discussed this Lyme is really a topic that needs more exposure.
Drink Ginger and tumeric tea.
Definitely drink tea, but also go to a real doctor and get tested then treated. Tea and ginger, will do nothing but hydrate you and not treat the bacteria.
I had a list of probably over 100 symptoms I had when I had lyme. Vertigo. Insomnia. Extreme weakness. Felt like I was being shocked at times. Bell's palsy. Muscles would move on their own. Etc. 10 years and finally started feeling better. Don't mess around if you ever feel bad after being in the woods. I had no mark or anything.
I'm still hear 24yrs later.
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Last summer my mom got this weird version of Lyme where the tests didn’t detect it. It got to the point where her skin got pearly, her face drooped like a severe stroke victim, her eyes droopy like a dachshund, she couldn’t move her arms above her chest without shaking. Her body constantly felt like pins and needles all day long. It actually got to the point where she needed a walker and couldn’t get around easily. Worst of all she couldn’t eat food, it just fell out of her mouth. After seeing that I nearly broke down thinking my mom was gonna die. It took about 3 months of her going to the hospital constantly to get treated. Absolutely insane how the doctors couldn’t detect it.
Interviewee: Yeah so we have this supercomputer that is basically changing the game in Medicine and could save millions of lives
Joe: Wow, yeah Lyme disease is like super scary man I know a couple people who got it
I'm shocked I have not seen the ubiquitous quotation phrase.. I was thinking I would see right away, Joe " Lyme disease is like super scary man" Rogan.
Lol I hope he read your comment lol
Do you think ticks have DMT in their insect brains?
@@Negus222 if you take dmt, and get bit by a tic, couls someone else get high
Your profile pic trips me out
Thank you for discussing this & not brushing it off like the medical community!
I had it for 4 years. NO HELP FROM THE MAINSTREAM MEDICINE AT ALL.
I lost my faith in doctors and the medical system.
Had Lyme disease and mono in the same year. Lost all my scholarship offers. Had to quit all sports and my passions. Barely had a brain to think left. Mind was foggy all the time. I beat Lyme thank god but my ebv reactivated. If it would have been treated sooner I probably wouldn’t have any chronic fatigue today. But since I’m 17 they prescribed me antidepressants because they thought I was stressed. I got very lucky as they were blindly treating me without knowing how I was ill. They gave me a z pack and a steroid because they thought I had the flu, even though flu test came back negative, which is probably the worst think you can do, is give someone a steroid when they have Lyme. I’m in a state that rarely ever has Lyme cases(atlanta, ga) Combine that with abusive coaches and parents and I almost killed myself on numerous occasions. I still don’t know how I made it through all that. I’m thankful that I didn’t now, life has so much to offer when you’re not in bed 24/7.
Ben Jensen i had the same combo my senior year of high school. Worst thing. Turns out i had it tracing back 13 years but they never caught it. Ended up having the highest levels of Lyme in all of CT because it was untreated. Still dealing with the symptoms over 10 years later.
@@laurenmariefitness7988 What are some of those symptoms that seem to never have left?
Ben Jensen hope you’re doing better mate
If they thought you had flu, they wouldnt have given you neither z-pack nor steroids... either bs or you're confused
PaulSyp my family doctor insisted I had the flu and said to wait it out. Then I went to urgent care and they ruled the flu out after they tested for it, as well as a lot of other things, so after they couldn’t find anything they decided to just give me a z pack and a steroid. Sorry for the confusion
It's really comforting to see Lyme's being recognized with such compassion. Most people are completely unaware of what it is, outside the name. I was recently diagnosed and have had it for what seems to be at least the past 8 years. The worse was not knowing what was wrong with me, plenty of early signs that had shown but most american doctors are as ignorant of Lyme's as the general population. Really appreciate the right words being said by Joe, David, and the community.
Do you know if there's a way to test how long you've had it? Also did you experience kidney problems?
I'm glad this information is being shared more and more, especially on a platform like the JRE. My mother got Lyme disease around 2010, but we didn't even know what Lyme disease was until it was too late to treat with antibiotics. She ended up losing the battle last year, although seeing all the progress that has been made regarding Lyme gives me hope for the future. #BeTickAware
Same with me. I pulled out the tick. I developed the bull's eye. And I felt like a zombie from the Waking Dead for a whole week.
Doc did a test, and it came back negative. But he gave me the antibiotic ANYWAY. That cleared me up in 24 hours!
This breaks my heart, I've had lyme disease for 18 years and now I'm pretty much bed ridden. But the fact that there are possible solutions when I have no money and am literally on my death bed breaks my heart, to be truthful I am only 36 years old.
I'm 52 and have been misdiagnosed since I was 18.
I understand what you're going through, our only hope may be to grow our own marijuana.
Research something called the one minute cure, you can absolutely get better it worked for my severe lyme but its a serious treatment with not much research so i can't blindly recommend it to everyone who mentions lyme but your post honestly breaks my heart.
@@OthO67 yep misdiagnosed until recently, nasty medical system. I have been medicating for a long time and it is a godsend but this lyme disease is holds no bars. I would literally give myself to David's research, I have no hope and would happily be a test subject. Much love to everyone
I hope you both get the antibiotics you need. I would definitely try go fund me.com. With your conditions people would donate quickly for a genuine and life changing cause.
What state are you located in? I went the holistic route and changed me almost back to normal
I live in connecticut, where lyme disease was first diagnosed, honestly i’ve been screaming this from the rooftops for the past 2 years. glad it’s finally getting attention.
These podcasts are the best thing on the internet. Always amazing! Thank you Joe!!!
You know someone’s a parent when they whisper their curse words
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It’s been almost one year since I had to travel from my country of Canada 🇨🇦 to Germany 🇩🇪 because there no help here and I was dying and Germany does it . St Georg Klink has changed my whole life . Hardest 3 weeks of my life in hospital but I’m living my best life again !!!
I appreciate him talking about this, I’ve been battling with Lyme for like 2 1/2 years now.
The protocol for treating Lyme is especially atrocious. I'm blown away by how awful this approach has been and the length of time this incompetency has lasted. It makes me wonder if there's something like the Tuskegee Experiment going on.
Peoples lives are being ruined as a result of not getting the antibiotic in time and/or the insurance not paying for the entire duration of the treatment. Its unbelievable.
Perhaps. And then there's my friend who's been diagnosed, has the meds, and isn't taking them. Because he wants to find out how bad it gets? He's a neurotic fool.
Perhaps. And then there's my friend who's been diagnosed, has the meds, and isn't taking them. Because he wants to find out how bad it gets? He's a neurotic fool.
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In all honesty. It is probably going to turn into the worst decision of his entire life.
The people who don't get treatment in time are usually DONE. I know two who's lives are entirely ruined because of this shit. One of them tried killing themselves after a decade of it. Your friend is probably the most naive person I've encountered in terms of stories I've heard. He won't think it's so funny a few yrs of being condemned to a bed and requiring a nurse to pry him off it to aid the circulation of the blood.
During my undergrad, I was heavily involved in a study conducted at Binghamton University, where we actually collected over 500 specimen from a commonly walked trail at Chenango State Park in Chenango Bridge. After testing, we found that 31% of the specimen were infected w Lyme.
Later that same semester, one of the leading experts in the North East gave a lecture on deer ticks and Lyme and there were nearly 1000 people there who were in attendance. Almost all of them were infected and they had experienced a terrible ordeal in fighting Lyme. Folks went through multiple treatments, but the treatments were administered wrong, which the Dr explained.
Many of those folks will be sick until the day they die, simply because it wasn't caught in time or the antibiotic treatment wasn't extended long enough.
In short, your friend is a total fucking idiot and he deserves what he gets. Ignorance knows no bounds.
insurance is the key, it is way more cost effective for them to pay doctors, etc.to pretend it is no big whoop, the sad(est) part is, it will go on and on, and these scumbags will pretend they are upstanding humans...because ordinary humans are now for the most part complacent and scared.
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Yeah, I just don't get it man. We literally have the cure and this cat and mouse game has somehow become protocol in the treatment process. You are right though, in most instances, it's the insurance companies not covering the antibiotic.
Love this guy for doing this for his daughter. He very likely saved her life, I’ve known people to be killed by Lyme disease from ticks. Since I was a little kid it was the scariest thing
Lyme disease ticks me off!
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I've been suffering from chronic lyme for the last decade. I've seen dozens of doctors and undertaken months of antibiotic treatment protocols and still have persistent symptoms that make regular life impossible. The brain fog, fatigue, joint pain, nerve pain, etc.. is 24/7. I'm still fighting for my life and will continue to do my own research and live as healthy as possible. The keto diet is actually great for lyme but hard to keep up. Podcasts like Joe Rogan and Tim Ferriss have introduced me to methods for treating lyme that I wouldn't have entertained otherwise. I'm very thankful for people like David Sinclair out there trying to help people fight this awful disease.
Go on an all fruit diet.
I find sugar even fruit sugar makes symptoms worse. Cutting out all grains and sugars helps. I’m trying Osha root and Japanese knotweed herbs they are natural antibiotics. We will see if they help, three weeks in I have more energy and less discomfort and pain.
The problem is the diagnosis. We need a better test.
Joe should have some of the major Lyme docs on - Phillips, Horowitz, burrascano, Rawls
I got Lyme disease my junior year of high school and have never felt closer to death before in my entire life. Whole body felt like it was shutting down :/
Because it was shutting down...What protocol did you use to get better?
Christopher Melvin I went to every hospital in my city and they all told me it was a severe case of the flu but my parents weren’t buying it so they took me to a specialist, there he ran blood work and found traces of the disease. They kept me over night to run some more tests and sent me home the next morning with a antibiotic (which I took for a couple of weeks).
@@splicegains Look up Ilads.org and use their protocol or find a LLMD trained by them. It saved my life. 2 weeks of Ab doesn't cut it or cure it. My LLMD; when I found him, looked at my labs and put me on 3 Ab pulsed for over a month. I knew it was working by the herx that began almost immediately. I'm at about 95% where I want to be. Be your own advocate...
Christopher Melvin will do, thanks g 🤟🏽
@@christophermelvin7228 how are you now, any new recommendations?
Lyme ruined my life and my sanity for years. Trying to salvage what's left of my life now.
@mista.zero I found out in 2014. For years prior to that I was slowly losing my mind. Things began to go down hill in 2009.
Stfu, change the way you think dawg. You have much of your life ahead of you. Stay positive
how u feeling now
Thanks for the video homeboy
As I have aged, I have noted that Doctors are less and less needed. They have a decision ladder they use that could be utilized by a nurse or yourself, with over cite. They adhere to this ladder no matter what, and a huge problem is this ladder is wholly influenced by insurance companies.
Joe "I know 10 people with lyme disease" Rogan
I’ve had chronic Lyme disease for over 12 years. I didn’t know wtf was wrong with me until 5 years ago. So many terrible symptoms. I wouldn’t wish it on my worst enemy.
Let's say a patient comes into my office during the early Spring or summer and has symptoms of headache, joint pain, maybe fever, I will order the labs and start doxycycline on the patient immediately before the tests come in. Better to be safe than sorry. This happens in South Texas every year, endemic typhus and Rocky Mountain spotted fever are much more common than Lyme down here.
The scary part is, where I live, half the doctors do this, half don't, so it's a coin flip whenever you go into the hospital.
I live on the east coast not far from Lyme CT. I was diagnosed with Lyme about 7 years ago. I did not know I was infected as I did not see a tick or bullseye legion. For a couple weeks I thought I had the flu until large legions started to show up on my body from head to toe. At that point I was experiencing extreme fatigue and irrational thought patterns - mood swings, irritability and so on. I’m doing much better now and the only residual effect is trouble regulating body temperature. When I’m cold I don’t just shiver, my body would lock up and tremble desperately trying to generate heat. It almost looks like a mild seizure. I’m not sure who to trust as a medical professional as the trend is to push pills instead of curiosity to further a diagnosis. There are doctors who study Lyme but not everyone can pursue those doctors due to insurance limitations.
I’m young though very curious on how it will affect me later in life.
Don’t know if anyone will read this. But I’m sure there are folks who will consider or relate to my experience.
How are you doing now? I just got diagnosed today because I had a huge swollen knee last week
@seanhanson8525 I'm well. It's been 10 and a half years now and the post-lyme related symptoms are rare. I have to be proactive about situations where a flare-up can happen.
For example, last new years (a cold night) I left a party and carpooled a couple friends home. The car was maybe 20ft from the house and half way my body locked up real bad and it was a bit painful. Similar to swimming in icey water and your muscles stiffen. I made it to the car and had to wait a bit for it to warm up and for my body to free up before I could drive.
It doesn't always happen. But when it does I just try to power through. All I can do.
There a bunch of long term side effects, especially if the infection is prolonged/undiagnosed like mine was. But your lifestyle and health will keep them tolerable and more-or-less unnoticeable.
The antibiotics kicked my butt for a bit. The tuff part it relating to people while going through it - they have no idea. I hope you have the lesser of it all and bounce back quick ✌️
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I’ve lived in southeastern CT most of my life and I spend a lot of time in the woods. I’m amazed I’ve never gotten lyme. I literally went to high school with a bunch of people from Old Lyme.
For the last several years, my mother and I have had to help my father through various horrific episodes of epilepsy induced by focal seizures, which are a rare and difficult-to-treat type of seizure disorder. Over the last five years, he has had three major episodes, and a few minor ones, for which we would take him to the ER at UPenn Hospital, purportedly one of the best hospitals in the country, if not the world.
Every time we would take him would end up feeling worse than if we hadn't taken him in at all. I have no illusions that the medical staff at UPenn know immeasurably more than I do about this kind of stuff, but knowledge and competence weren't the problem. Arrogance and systemic failure were.
They would rotate doctors every day each time we went in to get my father treated, which meant information on his condition had to be constantly relayed to the next doctor on duty who would always have their own opinions about what to do about it. Each time we took him, there would be nights where the doctors would instruct their nurses to give my father a ton of different medications that we knew he wasn't supposed to have, or to deprive him of medicines that we knew he needed, all to experiment with him and see what would work and what wouldn't. Despite the fact that we have been dealing with his disorder for years (and using treatments administered by their own doctors, I might add), they chose to completely disregard us and do things their own way to my father's expense. There were nights we had to drive an hour at midnight to get to the city to be with him because the asshole staff put him into medically-induced nightmare frenzies and would refuse to administer the proper medications to him unless we drove down there and threw a fit in the middle of the hospital.
It's really a terrifying thing. Doctors are the people who know most about this kind of stuff, and yet in this country, when it comes to actually helping people, they're incredibly inept and even downright harmful because of all the backlogging, insurance quibbles, and administrative bullshit.
@@ECP90 Well, he's pretty fine now, so luckily their poor caregiving isn't a pertinent issue right now. As for CBD, I'm not sure how efficacious that would be for something like focal seizures, and even if it did work, I hesitate to make my dad dependent on a substance that has such a precarious legal status throughout the country. I use it myself for chronic headaches, but I wouldn't know how someone with seizures might react to using it for a long time and then being forced to quit it cold turkey because of changes in the law.
We have people in this country that don't believe its real. My wife had Lymes disease when she was younger. We were at Fort Gordon Georgia, and she mentioned to her doctor (on post) that she had it. She was pregnant and thought it was important to tell the doctor. The doctor went off about how it wasn't a real disease and blah blah blah. This was in 2007. We demanded a new doctor after that, and the first thing we asked the new doctor was if he thought it was real. He was confused and said yes, then we explained why. He shook is head in disbelief.
Wanuby feel for you bro, I got Lyme in Douglasville, ga. Doctor said it’s highly unlikely I had it because Lyme disease isn’t in Georgia. 🤦♂️
Yeah they are called Doctors.
I was in Ft.Gordon in 2007.
@Zwenk Wiel I understand that, but said she had a positive test in the past. It wasn't like we said, "So um, web MD said the symptoms were this and that is what I had." He was just totally dismissive and said doctors up North were wrong about it. Like it was some grand conspiracy.
@@jsj31313jj I'm sorry to hear that. Permanent or there for AIT?
I just want to say thank you to all the medical staff that helped diagnose and cure me within hours of dying from Lymes disease. The symptoms were terrible fatigue, twitching and itching.
You think they will read it here? Maybe do it in person 😘
@@betrion7 lol yeah I did, that was a second thank you to them and all the medical staff around around the World in helping saving our lives.
I have been a solo hiker for almost 30 years - primarily in New Hampshire and Vermont. Every year I went hiking, I would check out the lime tick numbers,and I would take this to my doctor. I would request a few doxycycline for the trip. Since it was relatively safe o take just a couple (so I've been told, and have read to verify) I would take 2 or 3 in a 10 day trip. I did this because you will be bitten numerous times by lots of things. So far, no lyme disease. I think this is a reasonable precaution.
I had Lymes disease when I was 10. They couldn't figure out what was wrong with me for a long time. Doctors said I had mono. Treated for that, and seemed to get better for a while. Then I started getting joint pain, my wrists and knees were the worst. Knees ended up swelling to the size of grapefruits (remember I was 10 at the time so I am talking massive knees), and I could barely walk. Ended up going to a children's specialist, and got diagnosed with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis. Took them months to even test for Lyme disease. Ended having to get a spinal tap and 4 separate knee taps to drain all the puss from my knees. Eventually got a pic line put in and was treated that way. Luckily this helped. I regained full mobility and haven't looked back.
The first 2 seconds of this clip is the best thing ever. Sinclair's creepy grin followed by "Staph Infections!"
Lyme changed my life. I was diagnosed in 2011 and still have symptoms; arthritis & fibromyalgia. It went undiagnosed for months & I went from being a 135lb student athlete to a 115lb homebound sick kid. Initially, I had a pic line to my heart for 5 months, IV treatments 5 times a week. I've still never been the same
@Galva Tron wow. You know i can kinda i.ahine how you feel i was diagnosed with Anklosing Spondylitis when i was 20 but it took almost a year to fo d a guy who could actually diagnose me while i was just grtting worse as nd worse (pic line in my arm for 10 months) now im taking Enbrel shots and mostly live like i used to im back to downhill skating and riding motorcycles but i will never be %100. Stay strong
Woops tagged wrong person
Ugh the pic line was the worst. I had it for 13 years before they caught it and still have symptoms that definitely hinder my life and i know it’s not going to end anytime soon. Just gotta keep going.
I have lyme and i was desperate enough to try something known as the one minute cure which involves heavily diluting food grade hydrogen peroxide and drinking it. I don't recommend it because theres not much real scientific data on it, but all anecdotal evidence went something like it worked great with no horrorific consequences or it worked alright but the herx effect was too much for for (The same effect antibiotics have where you get really ill because all the lyme is dying and their toxins running through your system ) and all the naysayers online were people with no education or experience with it basically giving their gut reaction and saying it must be horrible/deadly, I cured like 80 to 90% Of my symptoms and my primary doctor was shocked at how my bloodwork showed a huge drop in my lyme levels and most strains i originally was found to be positive for now read non-reactive, so I know the treatment works but research everything possible before even thinking about it.
I have been struggling with lyme disease for so many years. I contracted it as a child after a tick-bite. I did not develop the bulls-eye rash as many people don't - though I did have all of the symptoms. Tested positive many years later after significant health decline.
I saw youtube videos from a few years ago of people trying to get legislation passed in Pennsylvania (or some state in that area) to get Lyme more acknowledged in the medical community and give doctors the ability to prescribe antibiotics for Lyme and it be covered by insurance.
There was something preventing them from prescribing the antibiotics because they often need to be taken for an extended period of time for Lyme Disease
Should’ve had Eddie bravo on as well to explain plum island.
“Basicallly like the island of dr Moreau”
Three ticks watched this.
Lol
Oh no. Its gone up! They're MULTIPLYING!
Got lyme disease when i was 14, didn't realize until 6 months or so had passed cuz the school nurse saw the bullseye mark on my right lower leg. Fortunately, I was on of those who only got the mild symptoms of pain, poor sleep, no hunger, shit like that. Boy am I happy I'm not one of those people who got paralyzed or suffered from a brain haemorrhage.
I wanta cry at this, mans a hero.. super jealous actually i couldn’t do this for my daughter should this happen
I had severe Lyme..When I was 8 years old I was missed diagnosed by a doctor in the East Coast telling my family it was just Ring Worm and I ended up letting the lyme develop in my body for a full year which was deadly. The right symptoms were not present in that full year. It wasn’t until I started having razor sharp pains shooting across my body and up my spine causing me to collapse on the ground instantly in tears and when I started having bell’s palsy causing me to not smile correctly. It was SOO bad to the point I would walk into my parents room and tell them “I cant think” my brain had so much of the symptom “Brain Fog” that I literally couldn’t create thoughts / vision a scene in my brain at times, I could only speak out loud to think what I wanted. Though luckily I was very fortunate to work with the number #1 lyme doctor in the word according to the community, Dr Raxlen, and still today he is practicing. I’m in my late twenties now and my life is way better thanks to the right antibiotics and physical therapy back then. Though the disease sometimes actually never leaves the body like in my case now in 2019 where the lyme is “Relapsing” and no longer dormant but now active. It’s like the VENOM disease/comic just hanging inside me and hurting me when it wants. I am back on potent antibiotics and kicking the diseases ass again though! Some symptoms are permanent like the Joints he mentioned. Every day I have stress in my neck and must twitch it 24\7 and my wrist for example are so bad that I cant even hold my girlfriends hand for longer than a few minutes with out having to crack it or rotate my wrists a bit. Sometimes random fatigue will occur like my body is exhausted from dealing with the bug war inside of me making normal days a challenge I step up to. Granted though, I am very happy with my life and live a very normal one with Lyme symptoms I just adapted to, life carry’s on! Just wanted to sure a inside look to how bad Lyme Disease Is. Always strip down and check all areas of your body for Ticks after hiking/being in the grass please!!
Hey diRig, you said you had lyme disease for a year without getting any helpful treatment? I have a family member who is suffering from lyme disease and she has been to so many different doctors and specialists that they cant even identify the lyme and help her. She is suffering so much and she has had lyme for almost year now. Do you know or can recommend any treatment that will work? Is there a specific antibiotic that will help significantly? Please anything.
The bullseye mark can occur in a different place then the bite.
I just read that during the video, what if you are single and its on your back?!
@@psychonaut1829 use mirror ;)
My Grandpa got a tick disease during harvest “he’s a farmer” and he doesn’t have the stability or heat tolerance he use to but he still can handle a lot.
My mother was mis-diagnosed for Lyme Disease for many many years.
She was in the hospital for all of my childhood and even had a spinal procedure done because of some diagnosis.
She had an app on her phone to remind her which medications to take every day.
Every once and a while she still has bad days, but the good days are growing steadily over the last few years.
My sister and my step-dad both tested positive for Lyme as well, but I don't.
Really terrifying.
One of my uncles best friends had Lymes as long as I knew him. It was horrible to watch him suffer. Didn’t catch it early either.
RIP Little Eddie.
Lyme can also be transmitted by misquotos, spiders, fleas, etc.
bullshit lmaoo
My dad got lyme disease in 2013 and when he went to the hospital after his muscles seizing out for 8 hours they called him a pill seeker... luckily he found a doctor that would treat him and now he is better. Always check for ticks because that disease is hell.
Man, Lyme disease and ticks are the only real concern I have about spending time in the woods. Problem for me and my dog.
I was debilitated by Lyme
Then I got intravenous vitman C injections. It cured me- I'm convinced
Id sue the doctors and hospital into bankruptcy if they did that to my daughter
I enjoy spending time outdoors and have found ticks latched on me several times but not engorged, but I haven't had any sympotoms except hives. So I don't know if I have it or not
There’s a lot of Lymes cases around where I live so the doctors don’t wait for the test results. If you’ve got any symptoms at all they’ll start you on doxycycline immediately. The bullseye doesn’t show up at all sometimes. It can be blotchy red spots or joint swelling more commonly.
Lyme disease ticks me off
Jo Po booooo
And thats where that expression comes from, right there.
I’ve been bitten by like 30 ticks already this summer. I’m a okay
Jeff Mcintire For now.
Deer ticks bro
where did you go to that u got bitten by so many ticks
Damn you must live in Australia
You live in a Amazonian traphouse or what
Great guest... Thank you..
I live in Columbia County NY which has the distinction of being the world capital of Lyme-carrying ticks. I got Lyme for the 4th time last year, the symptoms never go away and it serious has people terrified to leave their house.
Plum Island experiment
gone wrong.
I'm surprised he didnt talk more about where that shit originated
It's not a conspiracy
Operation paperclip. Thankyou C.I.A
@@psyience3213 Let me take an educated guess. You don't have Lyme and clearly you don't know anyone who has it either? You are extremely fortunate!! I am honestly & sincerely grateful you don't. I wouldn't have believed it either! "Conspiracy? What complete BS!" If didn't know first hand.. I can remember being that naive, too. And my ignorance was absolutely bliss. You don't get it, until you get it. Peace, Health & Love to you~💚~
The Lyme spirochete has been found in 15-20 million year-old fossils and in Otzi the Iceman who lived over 5000 years ago
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Joe Rogan: staph infections.
2 years ago, 2 months in NJ and I got bit by a tick. Bullseyes and everything, I got the antibiotics almost right away. From time to time my wrist hurt like hell, and I get a bit feverish but nothing more, it goes away and I forget. I'm not sure if this monster is still in my system?
They did tell you - you must never donate blood nor can you be an organ donor, right? Treatment or not... ffs, I hope they informed you of that. :/
@@miss.conduct8083 No, they haven't.
@@cizia69 Sadly, I'm not surprised. There is so much I'm still not sure about. Vaccinations (and booter shots) - I've been advised to NOT even get the flu shot. I know I need a tetus shot but I keep getting conflicting information, even from Doctors to Pharmacists. (Basic lack of knowledge on a global scale. I DO know that steroids could damn near be fatal (for me) and if needed, I'd be hospitalized. Definitely the worst thing about Lyme is that it's different for every single patient~💚~
cizia69 I got lyme 10 years ago bud, took doxycycline for a month and totally forgot about it...6 months ago i started getting really hot, particularly my back and neck. Turns out the lyme (which actually hides in your body, lying dormant for years) came back with a vengence. Doxycycline was no longer effective in fighting it and im still struggling with symptoms as im writing this. My biggest piece of advice I can give you is this;
Stay in touch with the way your body feels. If you begin to notice anything unusual about your sleeping habits, feeling tired, achey, or begin feeling feverish DONT WAIT to get bloodwork done, specifically looking for lyme. Lyme actually feeds off sugary and fatty, processed foods, so try eating as healthy as you can manage if you want to prevent it from coming back. Its tough, but really try...its worth it, take it from me, as someone who wished they had.
@@slaterbee Thank you for the advice, I hope you are better.
I had Lyme disease when I was 12. I first noticed it when I saw a ring on my leg very similar to ring worm. But we shrugged it off. Well how we finally found out that I had it, was when I woke up for school one morning and I couldn't fully shut my eyes no matter how hard I tired, and it was hard to smile and frown on the right side of my mouth. That's an effect of Bell's palsy, which you get along side Lyme disease if you let it go on for so long without treatment. Oh and I basically got minor arthritis in my left knee and hip. Not too bad onvmost days, but there are some days where I dread standing up cause it's gonna hurt like hell
I have lyme, have had it for years and years, and yes, it is an awful thing ...it's a lifestyle, not a terribly interesting one...
I had lyme as a baby. Bloodpoisoning and all. Makes me wondet how bad it really fucked me up. Would i be different if i didnt had that?
I'm in the same shit boat. Lost my job of 21 years... Next is our house.
@@OthO67 Aww sorry to hear
@game walkthrough thanks for advice...I get an IV every week with high vis c and have an ozone machine at home that I use every other day.
Have had it for 7 years and trust me when I say I was on the verge of dying. I feel now 75% healed and I gotta say most importantly are a couple of things that are absolutely miraculous. 1) FODMAP diet, 2) ASEA products 3) right supplementation and NATURAL alternatives like stevia, cat's claws, CBD oil etc.
Trust me this shit takes a long time, but if you can do all of that AND focus on just yourself, also your mental health and sleep you will heal 100% I've had a couple of days completely symptoms free and now know alll of that is achievable and will get to it.
Hundreds of thousands of unknown organisms living upon or inside people of different regions.
"Let's bring them all to EUROPE!"
what is the problem with administering the antibiotic?
I've had chronic Lyme disease for ten years. I got infected when I was sixteen years old. I found the ticks, but I didn't know what they were, as no one ever talked about them or the dangers of Lyme disease and other TBI, so I just brushed it off. My life fell apart. It took years to figure things out, what was wrong with me, and what I could possibly do to get better. I've been using a lot of alternative medicines, like essential oils, TCM herbs, tinctures, etc. I'm still not right. I live a half-life. There's no aspect of your life that goes untouched - it's not just a physical illness, but mental and spiritual as well. You're just not the same. What's more, my future is uncertain. I'm just scraping by, living a basic existence. I need more help. We need more help. There's a lot of us, and the numbers continue to grow. But ,yeah, Lyme disease sucks. Be careful out there, guys. See a doctor, if you suspect a bite, and be assertive, as a lot of these doctors don't know shit about it and are talking out of their asses.
edit: Also, if anyone is into books, that "Brad Pitt movie" was based on a book that's a hundred miles better. lol
Good I don't get ticks
I've had probably 20 ticks on me in my lifetime, I feel great. The dog used to get one every time we went out to the woods, but the vet had a shitfit and gave him some pills and they don't bite him anymore. It seems like if something as harmless as a tick can kill someone now, the world has gone to shit.
It's a deertick not the wood tick we are use to!
Bacteria viruses and government have always been the killers of humans.
About 17 years ago My mother did some work over in the states and for some reason when she came back she was absolutely obsessed with Lyme disease and west Nile disease (she never had it FYI). It's not really something people talk about much in the UK but it sounds proper scary!
Finally!!! More needs to be discussed Joe
I had a camping trip from hell where i fell into a ravine and ripped all of the connective tissue in my right ankle and had to crawl for hours. I had so many tick bite all over my body i had to get treated for lyme disease, the medicine tetracyclines can be pretty rough with the nausea and vomiting but it beats lyme disease. LOL
couldn't you walk?
@@leomignonneau1765 can you read?
So close to breaking HIPPA
Family friend got lyme disease and without very expensive and constant physical therapy he is almost completely crippled from the neck down, never knew it was so crazy.
I’m so lucky I went to a walk-in clinic for a different blood test but the dr ordered Lyme test because I had all symptoms. I was bed ridden for years with no diagnosis, it’s a nightmare. But I been in treatment for 6 months and I already feel so much better I’m so mad I wasn’t diagnosed sooner.
Someone very close to me got Lyme disease but was consistently misdiagnosed. It just kept getting g worse. Air hunger, inability to focus, headaches, joint pains, shaking.
Then she finally met a specialist who believed it was Lyme Disease and then ran tests to confirm it. She got on antibiotics and started feeling better.
However, not everyone responds to antibiotics very well. Furthermore, not all Lyme disease is the same plus the confections. So the antibiotics slowly stopped working.
What ended up working for her was seeing a TCM doctor. I would have never thought to, but she had tried so many things, it was worth a try. She took what he suggested and she's been better ever since. Not 100% but she says about 93% which is a lot better than before.
Everybody's body is different and will react to diseases as well as treatments differently. So try different things.
What upset me the most was how dismissive the physicians were when she'd try to mention that she was bite by a tick.
1. If they don't see the bull's-eye, as mentioned in the video, they don't believe you.
2. Many physicians don't believe Lyme disease to be that big of a deal.
3. The treatment protocol (Doxycycline) doesn't work for everyone.
I hope things get better before they get worse. Though by the rising number of Lyme disease cases it appears it's already gotten worse. At least those cases were properly diagnosed.
this guy looks like an older version of robert irwin
I live in Vermont and about 10 years ago I would never have even thought about a tick. Now, I can't even step into my front yard without picking up a deer tick (more than half carry Lyme). It is terrifying how many there are and the rate in which they are increasing year by year. I think it partly has to do with winters being too warm for them to die off, but they have become a serious problem. and not enough people are talking about it.
Jesus Christ, this shit spooked me. I had Lyme disease almost ten years ago, but it likely wouldn’t have been spotted if my mom wasn’t a pediatrician. So thankful we caught it early.
I've had it since 2014. The first year was a complete living hell. I have self treated with herbs the whole time. I work full time, still feel pretty awful most of the time. I wouldn't wish it on my worse enemy. On top of making you feel like shit physically, the neurological symptoms make you feel insane.
What herbs? I've had it for years, no relief.
Hang in there bro...we're all going thru it. What herbs r u taking?
I take cats claw 500 mg 3 times a day. Eleuthero root 520 mg once a day. Cordyceps mushroom 520 mg once a day. I eat very little sugar, it makes it worse. I also take japanese knotweed occasionally. Start slowly on the herbs, they can make you feel much worse at first. I don't feel great, but i'm a lot better than i was in 2014.
What were your neurological symptoms
Your first mistake was using fucking ooga booga tribesmen medicine (herbs)
Lmaooo Joe Rogan with the slight Aussie accent at 7:34
@@snipercat9034 Dead meme man.
@@thespooktoberskeleton2540 oh yeah yeah?
Wheyre did Layme disease caome fraom?
@@snipercat9034 Yeah yeah!
wheyre deed Loime diseayse cam fram moite?
My friend has Lyme, it makes me sad that it hurts him that bad. Keeps getting bad headaches and feels tired. And he pays big money for medicine imported from Belgium.
I've had Lyme for over six years. Been having worsening neurological/autoimmune type problems ever since. Things are looking grim :(
We are missing the most important question..Do ticks smoke DMT?
Yes
Its not a conspiracy, it was a biological weapon developed on plum island that escaped, was picked up by ticks, the ticks were picked up by birds that flew to lyme Connecticut (the closest place to plum island)
Lol
?? Look up operation paperclip. Declassified cia document, dyor kek.
@@mastervibration2275 No u
Ohh. No wonder doctors have to deny its existence. If it is n9t recognized then the government can.t be sued.
?? Lmfao I did my due diligence obviously you didn’t. Watch the film “under the eight ball.” I’ll say no more
I didn't get Lyme disease but I did get Rocky Mountain Tick Fever when I was 19 and it gave me epilepsy, AS, osteoporosis, and degenerative disk disease. Plus a whole list of mental issues I never had before. I had no idea a tick could give you life altering diseases and not many people realize the extent of the damage they can do.
On point again . Just went to tick awareness seminar at local cooperative extension . Didn't realize how big the problem is in the northeast . They start out small as a poppy seed . Hard to notice . I have never found one on myself just dogs , by then they are usually pretty fat . Have to remove them properly or they regurgitate fluids into you adding to possible risks . Thanks and keep up the good work .
If I created something that saves human lives id always be looking over my shoulder nowdays.
Sad but true
I went to a ranch in Texas and I came home a had a tick in me luckily I didn’t get Lyme disease
I got a tick and didn't show signs for 5 years and am now bed ridden. Don't just guess be 100% sure, please!
The Morning Purr had a tick when I was in 5th grade wanna say it was 10 years ago, haven’t really had any symptoms, also my tick was in South Kentucky where Lyme is not a bad. But at the back of my mind I still wonder, my doctor said I would probably have shown symptoms years ago but I still worry.
I've had tons of ticks throughout my life mostly from Scotland (first one was about age 6 and was on my eyelid), lyme disease is thankfully still pretty rare to catch
My dad has this, luckily he did have a spot on his leg for him to notice. The spot was there for quite a while before he went in, you know, being a typical guy. (He never goes to the doc) then he started having crazy symptoms. Went in and sure enough he needed some horse pills for it. He said the symptoms were so intense he thought he must have gotten the flu. What’s crazy is that once you have it, like mono, it is always present in your body, right?
i once had to split firewood in the summer, got home and relized i had over 100 ticks on me, over 20 in each armpit. I do alot of working outdoore every summer and always find ticks on me. I had 2 huge bullseyes on me, but was told there was not a single case of lymes in MD but found out it was very common here a few days later, but i never went to doc about it. To this day everytime i see a doc or go to hospital i always tell them about how weak and sore my joints are and that im always tired and tell them about the two bullseyes i had yrs before and they dont do anything about it. I hope everytime you get a bullseye from a tick it doesnt mean lymes cause ive had hundreds of them but only two huge one. Docs always blame my sore joints and me being tired is from hard work but im really starting to think i have it. Ima get it checked asap and demand them to test me for lymes