Limeylime

A (crazy?) Canadian woman in a Lyme endemic area takes her life in her own hands by figuring out a sustainable way to manage her illness.

[Limeylime @Limeylime2]

Call me crazy, but I am not going to be afraid of nature. I refuse to let ticks ruin my enjoyment of life. I'm determined to figure this one out. #lymeblogger #LymeDisease #Lyme

[Limeylime @Limeylime2]

And here it is: what so many of us seem to be dealing with. This is NOT "healthcare"!

[Lyme Disease Advocate @AdvocatLyme]

02/12
Thank-you @CBCNews for raising awareness about Lyme Disease.

Unfortunately, Amanda's story of misdiagnosis is far from rare.
MDs have not had specialized training & are not recognizing Classic symptoms of arrhythmia, neuropathy, migraines, RA...1/2

https://t.co/wqO1kTjFfQ

[BCA_Clinic_Official @BCA_Clinic]

RT @LymeAlliance:
All too frequently patients with complex, multisystem illnesses are dismissed by clinicians, their symptoms often attributed to a psychiatric illness simply as “a diagnosis of default,” writes Bransfield. This includes Lyme disease. https://t.co/69eTT96GVM

[Limeylime @Limeylime2]

@LymeGot I was diagnosed with adhd and the adderall gave me sibo... While it helped me, it also RUINED my guts.

[Limeylime @Limeylime2]

@LymeGot How many times has this been brushed off to be something like "you're about that age" or "well, sometimes WOMEN your age experience this" 😡 I have bad vision problems - always changing and at the worst times I can barely see at all! It is NOT normal aging.

[Limeylime @Limeylime2]

And this is why I've actually given up on getting an actual 🇨🇦dx in my lifetime. I'm bracing myself for a slow, miserable decline and an early death because the emotional impact to my physical health of arguing with misinformed doctors is too much. #LymeDisease @skepticallDdoc

[Limeylime @Limeylime2]

@wend_ck 😮 ya, I wonder!

[Limeylime @Limeylime2]

Whenever I have felt awful, I induce a fever with a hot bath and a dose of yarrow tincture to induce sweating, drink some hot water, then wrap myself in many layers in bed with a hot water bottle or two for hours. I always feel so much better. #DIY #Lyme https://t.co/9IOTeGZaD3

[Limeylime @Limeylime2]

I finally found the perfect spirit animal! #lymedisease #chronicillness
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[Limeylime @Limeylime2]

@FibroWarriorThe I love my Samsung with the built-in stylus because sometimes my clumsy fingers can't do things.

[LymeDisease.org @Lymenews]

“'You cannot float humans or horses in enough Doxycycline to kill this bacteria,' said Breitschwerdt. Treatment, such as Laura’s, requires weeks of multi-antibiotic therapies." #bartonella https://t.co/fguYzbWGgX

[Limeylime @Limeylime2]

I wish I could be taken seriously enough to get tested to see what actually lives inside me. #🇨🇦 #LymeDisease #lyme

[Infectolab Americas @infectolab]

Ever heard of Chlamydia pneumoniae? Read our post to learn about this Lyme co-infection.

#LymeDisease

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[Limeylime @Limeylime2]

@EDSprblms @UntoNuggan Some days, I am the same. I feel that it is a simple but meaningful gesture of support. 💚

[Prevention-Is-Best @lymelegacy]

Saw this in one of my feeds today. Made me think about the thousands of patients harmed by the medical system, lacking support, isolated, misdiagnosed, untreated, misunderstood, judged, struggling ... but still fighting. #lymedisease #ChronicPain #chronicillness #Humanity

[Limeylime @Limeylime2]

@call9588124236 @FibroWarriorThe Dude, I think you just missed the context of our conversation entirely before you hijacked it. We were talking about how terrible winter is with chronic illness, and how everything has gotten so much worse. :/

[Limeylime @Limeylime2]

@FibroWarriorThe I totally get the mentality. No matter what we do to brace ourselves, winter hits hard. :/

[Limeylime @Limeylime2]

Not unlike #LymeDisease? Ya, my life was ruined by contaminated blood I received in Guelph, ON many years ago. Still waiting for a correct diagnosis.

[Kulvinder Kaur MD @dockaurG]

My undergrad training was in Microbiology, my post-grad training was in Immunology & my medical research was in Virology at 🇨🇦’s only Level 4 National Microbiology Laboratory

🇨🇦’s response to #2019nCoV is disorganized, illogical & fails to adhere to scientific evidence. #cdnpoli

[Limeylime @Limeylime2]

@A_Story_of_A @KellaHannaWayne @LMegaparsec Wow...she really doesn't understand how anxiety works does she?

[Limeylime @Limeylime2]

I'm having déjà vu. 😭 #shitpeoplesay

[Limeylime @Limeylime2]

@HealthCanada Mother to fetus transmission of #LymeDisease happens! Please do better with protecting and treating the 🇨🇦 public! https://t.co/BZyrLxO4Ot

[Limeylime @Limeylime2]

@ABlondeAvocado I get it. At some point I just decided that it doesn't really matter what anyone else thinks. If I speak from the heart: truly and with good intentions and diplomacy, it's all good. You have every right to speak your truth to the world.