Kris Kristofferson's Lyme Disease Misdiagnosed as Alzheimer's (2016)

It&#x27;s scary how hard it is to get quality diagnosis and how stubborn the medical establishment is in maintaining the current status quo. We have treatments for many diseases. We know the symptoms. But because your physician might not know about something, you might need to pinball between specialists (losing time and money) or even not properly get diagnosed at all.<p>A free web-based expert system for medical diagnostics could save <i>a lot</i> of lives. It&#x27;s really something that should be tackled by the government (because of liability issue).<p>Instead, we have shitty scaremongering websites that list similar symptoms for most diseases, don&#x27;t give any probabilities, don&#x27;t tell you what tests are available and instead tell you to &quot;contact your physician&quot;.

&gt; &quot;For the past six or seven years, there was this slow realization that he was becoming forgetful. It was apparent,&quot; Gantry said. &quot;For the past six or seven years, there was this slow realization that he was becoming forgetful. It was apparent.&quot;<p>I can&#x27;t tell if this is a subtle joke or an egregious editing failure.

If you live in the Northeast or Midwest, unless you spend zero time in the woods (and you shouldn&#x27;t, because the woods are great), you <i>will</i> get a deer tick on you at some point, and it might carry lyme.<p>My strategy? Go online and illegally buy doxycycline intended for fish tanks. The pills are exactly the same color, shape, and size as what you&#x27;d get from a pharmacy. If you find a tick on yourself, remove the tick correctly (do not crush his body), then crush a pill and make a paste, which you should apply topically.<p>If you wait to see a rash, you&#x27;ve waited too long. If you wait until you feel sick a few weeks later, you&#x27;ve waited too long. There are studies that report the rash appears only about half the time, and the blood tests are inaccurate for the first month or so after exposure.

Back before antibiotics, they used to call syphilis &quot;The Great Imitator.&quot; The disease, caused by a spiral-shaped bacteria known as a spirochete, could cause so many different kinds of problems it seemed like 10 diseases in one.<p>Genetically, Lyme Disease is very close to syphilis. It&#x27;s also a spirochete, and it is the new &quot;Great Imitator.&quot; (1) The main difficult thing about Lyme Disease is that the tests for it currently are not that good. There are a lot of false positives &#x2F; negatives, and there is no test that show whether a patient has been cured, only whether they&#x27;ve ever been infected.<p>Neurological Lyme aka neuroborreliosis can cause a number of neurological &#x2F; psychiatric symptoms, including symptoms like OCD. Doctors never check for Lyme when a patient presents with sudden onset psych problems, even though it&#x27;s a known cause.<p>TL;DR -- If you&#x27;re having mysterious health problems, add a Lyme test to your other tests.<p>(1) interesting side note -- there are some studies that suggest it can also be sexually transmitting and&#x2F;or transmitted from mother to child

This typo in the article is too coincidental:<p>&gt; &quot;For the past six or seven years, there was this slow realization that he was becoming forgetful. It was apparent,&quot; Gantry said. &quot;For the past six or seven years, there was this slow realization that he was becoming forgetful. It was apparent.&quot;

The headline on that magazine cover is pretty evil: &quot;Kris Kristofferson&#x27;s Miracle Recovery from Alzheimer&#x27;s Diagnosis&quot;