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• Kris 12/03/2009 8:12:27 PM

  I'm not angry at your comment as it's fairly benign compared to others that I have heard, but I will reiterate that it is the fastest growing disease in America. We now have three CDC positive cases within a five-mile radius of my home in Utah. Utah is on the low, low, low-risk for Lyme disease and these cases were all diagnosed within the last three months. It will be interesting to see if the CDC is honest in listing these cases as I know I was reported and the other two should have been as well as it is a law in Utah that Lyme be reported. That said, only one of our doctors even speculated that it might be Lyme and then he passed it off as it was considered rare in Utah. By the time I finally found out, I was so disenchanted with the medical system that I simply ordered the test on-line through Private MD and went to my nearest LabCorp to have the test performed. It was $60 for the basic ELISA/EIA or $120 to include the Western Blot which is considered by most Lyme literate doctors to be more accurate than the ELISA. After my positive ELISA, I asked my physician to retest for confirmation. He did so again by ELISA and Western Blot. Those both came back positive from LabCorp. Then I saw Mr. IDSA Physician who told me, "I don't trust LabCorp." He required me to retest knowing full well I had just started a medrol dose pack (steroids) because I had no idea they were contraindicated in Lyme at that point. Well they also affect your blood tests since they decrease the antibodies in your system. I still passed his ELISA with flying colors but this time my Western Blot was negative with only one band showing. Of course I was tested again about a month later with another positive ELISA and Western Blot but because it is the IDSA physician's we are sent to for the treatment of Lyme, I will not be treated because the 4th test ordered by another doctor was also sent through LabCorp. I have yet to be negative on an ELISA test and I have two Western Blot positives. I am legally reportable to the CDC in my state yet I am forced to seek out a physician who has to put their license on the line for me to get treatment. Part of the argument made in the film is the flawed testing. Every lab used by mainstream physicians today is using a Western Blot test that is outdated and limits the number of bands tested as opposed to the previous testing which included ALL known Borellia specific bands. Two of those missing bands on the current Western Blots are OspA and OspB which look for outer surface proteins A and B put out by the surface of the bacteria Borrelia Burgdorferi. The oddest thing about excluding these bands is that they are the very bands that the LYMErix vaccine was based on. Why in the world would they take off the bands they used for the vaccine? Well, that is part of this huge controversy called Lyme. It's a story which in short could be entititled, "We Defined Lyme Disease so Quickly so the FDA Would Approve the Vaccine We Wanted to Make and Market that we Didn't Notice that OspA and OspB Would Mimic a Human Genetic Marker Called HLA-DR4, Et Al and Now 1/3 of Our Vaccinated Volunteers are Suffering to Date From an Irreversible Autoimmune Disorder Causing Severe Disability." Do you think that title might be too long? Well, that's one of the reasons I speculate they took off the bands along with the fact that once these people were vaccinated, when they tested them by Western Blot, it lit up like a Christmas Tree. This was not supposed to happen. How would they now tell who had been vaccinated and who truly had Lyme? The evidence is there if you are willing to look and you should be scared about this epidemic. It will knock a lumberjack off his feet. The threat is real. The story is unbelievable even to me, but the last year and a half have opened up my eyes to what really goes on behind some of those smocks and lab coats. The denial is outrageous, but think of the consequences to their admitting their mistakes now.....Malpractice suits galore from misdiagnosis, undertreatment, women who lost their unborn babies, those who received tainted blood products, admission of guilt and possible loss of their medical licenses, loss of respect from the entire medical community and eventually being written out of medical journals or disregarded entirely. They have a lot to lose if they admit to the truth, but in the end the burden they carry is going to be so heavy that it would still be better for them to admit it now. I would be able to forgive any physician who has lied about this controversy if they would just come forward. I think having Lyme disease is an unimaginable burden, but I cannot imagine the burden it would be to know that you were responsible for inflicting this kind of suffering on others and yet you said and did nothing. I'll take my burden any day over the latter burden. At least I don't have to carry the guilt around about what I chose to do to another person.

• tori 06/20/2009 11:44:17 AM

  Symptoms that MAY or MAY NOT EXIST?? What the hell is your problem? Do you have any evidence that the symptoms may not exist? Do you moonlight for insurance conglomerates> Do you know anyone with Lyme disease? (Obviously not). I certainly would not wish the suffering I have been through on anyone but someday you may be infected, then you will eat this review and regurgitate it all over your lie-spitting keyboard.

• Cyn 06/17/2009 6:26:11 PM

  If you think for one minute that Lyme Disease isn't as serious as they show in the film, then come to Ga. and watch me try to walk across the floor, or even better try to talk to me for more than 11 words. I guarantee you I will be out of breath and lose my voice. I can also sweep the floor for you. 1, 2, 3, strokes of the broom and I'm flat on my back gasping for air like a fish out of water. DON'T EVEN ATTEMPT TO JUDGE THOSE WHO have Lyme's Disease or any other tick borne vector, until YOU'VE WALKED IN THEIR SHOES....Oh I forgot, this is written by a woman who used to be able to lift 90 Lbs with 1 arm and throw it as though it were a bag of feathers. Not only has my life done a 360, I can't even remember what I had for breakfast half the time, and you should see my once flawless skin, {that required no make-up.} I don't even want to go there. If you want to help someone like me then research the TRUE EFFECTS of all Tick Illness, before you pour out your sarcasm for all to read.