Mystery Illness Baffles Doctors; Frustrates Patients

foxreno.com ^ | POSTED: 7:43 pm PST February 6, 2005 UPDATED: 8:03 pm PST February 7, 2005 | Staff

[Lee Heggy]

SAUSALITO -- Is an unknown disease hitting the Bay Area or is it just a case of mass delusion? If you ask intensive care nurse Cindy Casey she'll tell you that the mystery disease is very real and very painful.

[Jason_b]

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[Lee Heggy]

"Mysterious symptoms that vary from patient to patient. "

Thats whats odd with this. The symptoms are pretty similar in the cases that have been reported. I agree that theres alot of 'hobby diseses' that the media and others like to scare folks with but this sounds different.

[r9etb]

You really have to wonder about these physicians. Patients complain about lesions and fibers. A routine exam would should that they have lesions and fibers. Why would you accuse them of being mentally ill?

Well, you've gotta remember that it's the complaining patients who are saying this. Not only that, but these folks are from the Bay Area, which seems to have a much greater capacity for hyperbole than anywhere on Earth.

Their versions, and what the doctors actually said, are probably worlds apart.

[spodefly]

I read the story and watched the video, and now I am all itchy!

[Bon mots]

Plum Island???

I don't get it...

[Bernard Marx]

Why would you accuse them of being mentally ill?

Have you been to San Francisco or the Bay Area since the 1960s, LOL?

[ClancyJ]

So you think the 3-year old in the pictures on the above linked site is merely neurotic, a whiner, or gossiper?

[Old Professer]

MQD; Mad Queen Disease.

[shield]

Do a search on Plum Island...

[Cogadh na Sith]

So you think the 3-year old in the pictures on the above linked site is merely neurotic, a whiner, or gossiper?

Nope, just the guy who used the picture on a website for a 'mystery disease'.

Who even knows what that picture is--it's a Rorschach test.

Don't believe everything you read on the internut.

[fr_freak]

Lyme disease is a media promoted disease, primarily of NY and CT women confined to offices and needing something to write about.

And you're basing this opinion on what? There may be people out there who abuse the diagnosis of Lyme disease, but it is still very real, and it sucks. Pray you never get it.

[Bon mots]

Plum Island is probably not a connection for this new disease, as Plum Island is on the Northwest tip of Long Island, and this new disease started in the San Francisco Bay area.

OTOH: Could it have been the original source for Lyme Disease? It's less than 10 miles away from Lyme Connecticut, the epicenter and namesake of Lyme Disease. The same goes for West Nile...

Curious connection. Have you seen any newer articles about this?



The nearest Connecticut landfall from the Plum Island Animal Disease Research Center is Lyme Connecticut (see map above).



The Truth about Plum Island

Why do they need to do this kind of research in one of the most highly populated parts of America... right between New York and Boston? Wouldn't one of the Aleutian Islands be better suited?

[firewalk]

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[MonaMars]

"Lyme seems to be blamed first in these "mystery diseases". My doc at first thought that's what I had, when in fact I have Crohn's Disease."

That's bcse the physical manifestations of lyme can be so varied. No organ system is spared. Syphilis used to be called 'the great imitator' by doctors for the same reason, but they now use the term in relation to lyme. Not surprising since both diseases are caused by spirochetes.

By the by, I just read an interesting article from a British medical journal implicating mycoplasma in Crohn's. They advocate treating Crohn's with long-term low dose antibiotics.

[shield]

That facility should be closed down....if this type of research needs to be done. I agree why so close to such populated areas.

As far as this new disease in the Bay Area....I have to question if this is natural occurring disease....Plum Island is just an example...there are other facilities. I'm sure if they weren't so well hidden, we'd find several in California. Then there are other countries having labs like Plum Island.

In regard to West Nile....this disease moved from east to west...which in itself was extremely strange. If you've got birds carrying this disease, this disease should have moved from north to south.

[knittnmom]

That's one of the treatments I get - the antibiotic (metranidazol) interacts so strongly with alcohol that my pharmacist even recommended not using any lotions or cosmetics that contain alcohol.

[MonaMars]

"Lyme disease is a media promoted disease, primarily of NY and CT women confined to offices and needing something to write about."

Wrong. Lyme disease and the ticks carrying it have been found in 49 states. And if you knew someone who had lyme, you wouldn't be so damned flippant about it. I had it and it hit my heart, brain and joints before they diagnosed it properly, primarily bcse of doctors who had the same snotty attitude as you. Of course they changed their minds after the results of my spinal tap and MRIs came back, but by then it had spread so fully, I almost died.

[MonaMars]

Yep. Lyme Disease--it's not just a disease, it's a hobby!


See my reply to bert.

[sweetiepiezer]

Scary.

[Cogadh na Sith]

How come I've never even heard of a man with Lyme disease?

I've spent countless hours in the woods in the army and hunting. I've been eaten alive by ticks of all species.

How come I don't have Lyme disease?