Very interesting information about Lyme disease..

I found this in the letters section of Glenn Greenwald's Salon blog..


http://wonkette.com//politics/tests-bush-can-pass-dept%27

President Healthier Than Dollar

The President’s medical history was released today — and he’s in considerably better shape than us.

<...> Apparently he had Lyme disease last year? No one told us!

Where the hell is this guy coming into contact with a tick, though? Doesn’t he have people who are supposed to jump in front of ticks for him or something?

- - wonkette.com

http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/abstract/151/11/1571

The American Journal of Psychiatry; November 1994

Am J Psychiatry 1994; 151:1571-1583
Lyme disease: a neuropsychiatric illness

BA Fallon and JA Nields
Department of Psychiatry, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York.

<...> Up to 40% of patients with Lyme disease develop neurologic involvement of either the peripheral or central nervous system.

<...> A broad range of psychiatric reactions have been associated with Lyme disease including paranoia, dementia, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, panic attacks, major depression, anorexia nervosa, and obsessive-compulsive disorder.

- - The American Journal of Psychiatry; November 1994

Now we know why we're so messed up as a country--our foreighn policy decisions are being made by a tick! (I knew it wasn't anything human).

It's going to be hard to make a differential diagnosis

Brilliant!

First time in history that a tick could technically be called a WMD. :sarcasm:

GMAFB.

TC

There are a lot of good people suffering with it, and there are a lot of people who don't know they have it. Its a very tough diagnosis- people can have a tick bite and not notice it- if you are not treated within the first few weeks you will probably manifest the disease at some point although you may not have symptoms for a while- and different people will have different symptoms. The tick bite Bush got could have been years ago.

I have my own mental problem, I mean to stigmatize no one.

... have been associated with Lyme disease including paranoia, dementia, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, panic attacks, major depression, anorexia nervosa, and obsessive-compulsive disorder.

Sorry if I took it the wrong way. :hi:

Is that people should be made aware of *all* the possible ramifications of this disease.

If it helps just one person realize that their own or a loved one's mental problems are due to Lyme disease then I feel posting the information is a good thing.

Mental afflictions are not the "fault" of the person so afflicted, they are mostly due to some sort of biological disorder, in this case Lyme disease.

It may be an excuse, period. It may also be an excuse for something else.

They (the people who thought him up and put him there and act behind his back and brief him about what they are going to do, did, or deny him the truth) don't deserve to be believed about anything.

I know that it is an awful disease and I don't mean to demean the seriousness and suffering, but lying is a problem here with the administration. Millions lay in the wake of the lies - no jobs, no sons, no daughters, no immune systems, no businesses, torment, torture, spying, no flying, political deportations.

But, if they are lying to us again ........ using him - I WON"T be surprised.

it is hard to believe anything. His personality defects have been around for a long time, and do not require anything new to explain them.

Why would I believe ANY story that comes out of the WH? Everything that comes out of the administration has been and is a lie - why suddenly believe this story?

Bush has abused drugs and alcohol most of his life and we all know he already has mental problems, most likely caused from this as well as having Poppy and Barb as parents. I think his symptoms are becoming so severe that it's increasing difficult for his handlers to disguise them, so what's the solution? - make up a condition that he was diagnosed with over a year ago and no one was told - something that doesn't sound too wimpy - Lyme disease caused by ticks would be a great sell because, as we all know, junior is an outdoorsmen, right? A manly man who spends his off hours and vacations in the outdoors - hunting, fishing, clearing brush, bullshit, bullshit, bullshit, blah, blah, etc. Lyme disease would be the perfect disease to explain away shaking hands, cloudy thinking, forgetfulness, etc. All the symptoms that are also caused by a lifetime of drugs and alcohol and bad genes.

The colonsocopy was done at Camp David...not the hospital. Which would have been the most logical decision since anything can happen. And Camp David is quite a ways from a hospital..

The physical was done IN the White HOuse...not in a hospital. Which was logical. Why tote all that equipment from the hospital to the White House...Why? Because they did not want the change of any thing to be leaked to the press. So they could control what was told to the press.

And does any body believe any of the crap they tried to feed us....hell no.

He got a tick bite, got the bullseye rash, got diagnosed, took a course of antibiotics. End of story.

He's been a completely amoral sociopath his whole life. A tick bite didn't do it.

Years or even a decade or more with no obvious symptoms..

first thing you see, right at the tick bite, at the time of initial infection) and got it treated right away.

If there was no rash and no bite, they have no way to know for certain that whatever other symptoms he might or might not have has anything whatsoever to do with Lyme. There's no reliable test, IIRC.

He got a rash and was treated.

an early infection that gets treated. You CAN get those sorts of complications from longstanding, untreated Lyme - "longstanding" and "untreated" being the operative words........

I also don't get what the BFD deal is either. So what, he got the rash got treated. I'm sure he got a tick on him while he was at his ranch. Shit happens. :shrug:

But many it seems would like to say this explains his behavior and why he should resign from office. *sigh*

2 issues. Lyme disease can do all sorts of nasty shit to your body. Secondly, mrbush was nuts before this, this doesn't explain his actions.

Amy Tan has Lyme, thought she was going nuts, having severe problems. I know a person who thought she had MS, was Lyme. Tests aren't always definative for it, treatment begun sooner is good, doesn't work sometimes very fast, may not get rid of nasty symptoms. http://www.amytan.net/LymeDisease.aspx
Edited to add link.