Alice, Re: Asking A Question For A Friend

May 11, 2004

<< FYI.. I was also told I had lyme antibodies so I have had Lyme

sometime in my past but I haven't.>>

Hi Alice, That's very interesting! Thanks for letting me know.

The thing about Lyme is it's sort of like a mito disease, in that it

can attack ANYPLACE in the body, usually the area of person's

genetic weaknesses, so people's symptoms seem to differ quite

a lot with Lyme patients (heart, lungs, stomach, hearing, joint

pain, neuro-seizures, jerking, etc.). About the only constant

seems to be crushing fatigue and a 30 day cyclic symptomology.

My Lymie husband's symptoms are mostly quite different from

mine. And because at least 50% of the people infected never get

the characteristic rash and the test aren't terribly reliable, it's very

hard to diagnose.

I'm wondering if Lyme might not attack mitochondria in people

who are already at risk. So many of the Lyme patients I know

who developed neuro symptoms seem to have a great deal of

the same symptoms that seem common to mito diseases.

Someday researchers will get this all sorted out. Meanwhile....

Best Wishes,

Anita

May 11, 2004

I'm not sure about the possibility of Lyme attacking the Mitochondria. If it

were so .. in my case ... it would have had to attack many members of my family

as we have multiple members diagosed.

I grew up in RI which is a very high risk area for Lyme but as far as I know, I

never had the disease.

Alice

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