Posted on 03/08/2009 11:03:33 PM PDT by RightOnTheLeftCoast
Church shooting suspect has mental illness from Lyme disease By Joel Currier, Jeremy Kohler and Nicholas J.C. Pistor ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH 03/09/2009 MARYVILLE — A man suspected of killing the Rev. Fred Winters during a church service in Maryville on Sunday morning had developed mental illness from a tick bite, his family has said. Police did not release the name of the suspect, who was seriously injured in a struggle with members of the congregation after the shooting of Winters at the First Baptist Church. But a source close to the case confirmed late Sunday that it is Terry Joe Sedlacek, 27, who was the subject of a Post-Dispatch story in August about how Lyme disease had attacked his brain.
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Okay, so terrorists and murderers can infect themselves with Lyme Disease and go on a killing spree?
They caught my Lyme early only because I hounded my doctor.
Having just returned to Silicon Valley from Munich, I presented with the classical bulls-eye rash. “But we don’t have Lyme here,” the doc protested. I had to talk very slowly and carefully to get him to understand that I’d been bitten nine time zones away. I showed him a fax from a family friend who is a doctor in Munich, saying that Lyme is endemic there and how they treat it immediately if the bulls-eye is present. My doc grudgingly agreed to the blood test—but wouldn’t prescribe the doxycycline until the resulots were known—then was dumbfounded when it came back positive. “But we don’t have Lyme here!” he marveled.
SIGH.
Saw it eons ago, but fail to see the relevance here. Enlighten us, please.
the idea that people aren’t responsible for their own actions because they found an excuse.
The emergency room doc and my general practitioner chuckled and practically called me silly when I asked if it was possible that I had Lyme or maybe West Nile. I knew I had been in the woods and I had brushed off some ticks, but never knew I had a bite. It was a real stroke of luck and divine intervention that the wife of another Lyme sufferer in our town told my husband to get me to the specialist her husband sees. By that time I was in such bad shape that they began the antibiotics and anti-siezure meds that day, before the blood tests were even sent to the lab.
“Pray you never experience it. “
my late grandfather’s second wife did...but she passed away peacefully. She didn’t murder anyone in front of everyone.
“What the hell is that?”
It’s from West Side Story, a liberals’ Broadway musical about how juvenile delinquent kids in NYC are simply the product of the big bad establishment running NY that screwed up their lives, you know, the liberals themselves.
“Doxycycline works and is well tolerated and cheap, but you must be on it for at least two months to catch the spirochete throughout its life cycle. “
Will you please tell that to my doctor, he thinks 3 weeks is enough to kill anything.
As near as we can figure, I was infected the summer of 2004. I’ve tested negative for Lyme until this last December, when the neurological symptoms became so severe you’d swear I was drugged half the time. I never had the typical symptoms though (no rash, fever, or joint pain).
To be honest, I’m scared of this thing.
As bad as the MD’s are, some of the people that get it are equally dense.
I told my mother that she probably got it from a tick off her horses, and that the whitetail deer in the area were likely the reserve hosts for ticks. I told her that if she really wanted to kill the ticks, she a) had to treat her horses at least once/week with a pesticide dust practically forever and b) start convincing the locals to undertake a slaughter of deer in the area.
Of course neither happened.
You should be scared.
Especially if your doc thinks 3 weeks is enough to kill a parasite with a six week life cycle and an encysted larval stage.
Even 6 weeks wasn’t enough in my case. A few of the buggers survived and started a reinfection.
Fortunately, in my case the only neuro manifestation was a complete and utter intolerance to alcohol. A half glass of wine was enough to put me to sleep for twelve hours. That was the first clue that it was mounting a second attack.
Good luck— with a doc as dumb as yours, you’ll need it.
You need a specialist or, at the very least, another doctor that understands the life cycle of Lyme and how to treat it. Please do not delay any further.
I am trying to make a list of Lyme Disease sufferers who picked up a gun and shot people to death at point blank range for no reason. Anybody know, please ping me.
Lyme disease or lemon disease, this guy should hang.
JULY 12, 2008 TIME:10am-9pm
Terry Joe Sedlacek has been suffering from Lyme Disease and its co-infection Ehrlichiosis for the past several years. He nearly lost his life to this disease five years ago and battles the effects daily. His medications and doctor visits are costly. New test results revealed the return of this disease and left temporal lobe damage. He will begin a new & hopeful treatment in July;
http://www.stllymefoundation.org/
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Lyme disease diagnosis can be difficult
Terry Joe Sedlacek
(Handout)By Greg Jonsson
ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH
08/06/2008
Terry Joe Sedlacek’s parents worried that he was getting into drugs or alcohol when he started acting strangely during his junior year at Edwardsville High School.
He dropped out of the activities that used to interest him. He seemed confused. He missed class, and one time when the school called his mother, Ruth Abernathy, to say he hadn’t shown up, she found him home on the couch, having forgotten he was supposed to be somewhere else.
“I said, ‘What are you doing here? You’re supposed to be at school,’” his mother remembers of the day in 1999. “And he said, ‘Oh.’”
They tried to check him into rehab, but tests showed caffeine was the strongest thing in his system. Doctors diagnosed him as mentally ill and for years he took medicine — up to 18 pills a day at one point. But the drugs that worked for others seemed to do little for him. His physical condition deteriorated, too, and in 2003 he was in the hospital, so sick he was given last rites.
Finally a desperate battery of tests for everything from West Nile to SARS pinpointed two tick-borne diseases: Lyme disease and ehrlichiosis.
For Sedlacek, who was put in a medically induced coma and given intravenous antibiotics to combat the Lyme disease and ehrlichiosis, the diagnosis came late. For a few months he did very well.
“We had our son back,” Abernathy said.
But Sedlacek’s rebound didn’t last for long. After he got out of the hospital, oral antibiotics didn’t seem to work as well. His family sought out experts and tried alternative treatments, with mixed success.
These days, Sedlacek, now 26 and living in Troy, Ill., with Abernathy, has difficulty speaking. He’s got lesions on his brain. He’s taking several drugs, including anti-seizure medication.
“He takes enough medicine at night to knock a cow out, but he only sleeps two or three hours a night,” Abernathy said.
The nearest specialist is 4 hours away, and with a waiting list that stretches into August.
I am on that waiting list, but in the mean time my doc keeps trying things. The only reason I was even diagnosed was because my doc was willing to do a phone consultation with that same specialist, who recommended a special lab. I’ve had docs who, if they didn’t know what was wrong within the first 30 seconds, it must all be in your head. This one at least tries.
I think its funny that the neurologist found that when I’m having one of my “episodes” (the room spins and my brain goes numb) my IQ is average. When I’m not having an episode its even higher :p
Speakking of spiningg, I need to go wehere I can’t fall now
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