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SOUTH CAROLINA
Pam Culbert - I am Pam Culbert, Bitten in Wilson,
NC, where I saw the tick although I didn't realize it was a tick and
I had the bull's-eye rash. Moved to SC shortly after and no one
would treat me even though I had seen the tick and rash. Finally,
three years later, after reading much about Lyme and my symptoms
getting worse, my family physician started treating me with a trial
of doxycyclene after giving him lots of info on Lyme. Within four
days I felt better than I had in three years. After three additional
months on Doxy he referred me to Dr. J. We have discovered that our
entire family of four has Lyme and all are being treated by Dr. J.
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K. Liporace
- I always looked forward to yearly camping with my dad. It was our
bonding ritual. We would endure rain, burnt food, and enjoy plenty
of hiking and sight seeing. I wouldn't trade the memories of waking
up in a torrential down pour that encroached into our tent and
caused my air mattress to float one evening for anything. What we
didn't know was that our healthy, innocent recreation came with a
serious price tag on the camping trip when I was 14. When I came
home within a month it seemed that my hands became very stiff and
couldn't limber up. From there fatigue set in. When I was young, I
could sleep it off, but it would come unpredictably and abruptly as
if a switch was being turned off inside my body. Somehow, I just
assumed that this happened to everyone, so I accommodated it. The
next thing to go was my jaw. At age 15 I was diagnosed with TMJD
which I still have and also have had ringing in my ears since then
as well that won't go away. At age 18 I was diagnosed with having a
heart murmur. Well heart conditions run on both sides of my family,
so I pushed it aside thinking, no big deal. At the same time and
continuing to this day, I lose hair every August and experience a
rash on my upper back that goes up the back of my neck to my
forehead. I had difficulty with math during school; it didn't seem
to stick (much to my dad's dismay since he has his PhD. in math). I
have had two periods a month for 12 years and a host of ovarian
cysts. I developed knee problems which ended up with surgery. During
college, while studying with neck dorsiflexed, I developed barfing
migraines, until I learned to study leaning back, with my head
straight and my book up. At that time I also developed chronic
constipation and sleep problems that have never gone away. When I
got married, a month after, my husband and I were visiting his
family and I was bitten again. Both times I did not have an EM rash
and did not recall seeing a tick, which can be the size of the
period at the end of this sentence.
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