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How to protect yourself against Lyme disease

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    Drs. Samadi and Siegel answer viewer e-mail

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Sit around talking about issues says summertime you know what that could mean Lyme Disease in an email from James in Carmel New York he writes I'm 61 years old.

And have had Lyme Disease for 22 years.

My mood and temperament and ability to handle stress is horrific.

What does this disease due to the brain he says I became ADHD and OCD and it basically destroyed my career tax money.

This can be really serious really -- lime disease it's not as simple.

Answer to this question -- you really have to dig in and find them and ask more questions.

It whether there any other psychological issues in the -- -- get to know this person but based on the you know that we have I contended had Lyme Disease.

It is always being misdiagnosed because it's a -- gamut of things the first thing is.

The actual rash that you find it's a very specific bullseye.

Rash with the red circle 01 penny of what you -- white halo in the middle you'll need to recognize that.

Few days after you may have flu symptoms everywhere this flu symptoms and that's one of the reasons why it's difficult to find that.

What you have.

Then goes to your joints cardiac issues that thing about lung disease Eric and Jamie is that it can go through their blood brain barrier can go to our brain cause a lot of inflammation.

And that can be treated with -- -- by the -- we're talking about 22 years.

-- this problem this is chronic and there are studies that shows on disease can affect your brain to the point of increasing anxiety.

-- CV attention deficit -- marriages and war.

My advice to this person is to really continue to fight continue to battle there are some sort of is that shows that -- -- by the itself sets -- -- -- you don't.

You sift -- acts on is a very aggressive antibiotics that we give.

For about a month or more to really digging into the deep teachers of the brand and I hope that helps but obviously is you have to be careful -- -- because you have to get to know your -- Doctor -- the big question is Lyme Disease had a prevented how do you spot it and that's a tiny.

That little.

The thing that you can't -- -- but I -- yeah right I see a lot of Lyme Disease in my office and a lot of people that think they have Lyme Disease.

And that rash David is talking about is -- only about 6070% of the time which is a lot.

But if you don't have that pressure -- of Lyme Disease and then the number one some -- -- -- his fatigue.

And you might have depression and you might have problems thinking you might get some -- -- if I treat it early enough are.

It's gone.

But where this email comes from his 22 years later he's still having symptoms.

Unfortunately.

A lot of people think they have chronic Lyme Disease and they don't actually have it but it gets very hard to tell.

Caused a blood test I do for Lyme Disease doesn't prove it one way or the other but if you start to have problems.

Severe neurological problems you can have.

It's paranoia from this you can have personality changes from this it's possible that he does have -- now we don't know yet in this is where the research is going.

Is it from the -- repeat the bacteria.

Or is it from some inflammation or your body's immune system attacking back we don't know I like David suggestion a lot.

For a patient that we think is chronic lyme -- tracks on antibiotic -- right I got there in the woods which oh.

Look at yourself and --

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