Church shooting suspect has mental illness from Lyme disease

St. Louis Post-Dispatch ^ | 8 March 2009 | Joel Currier, Jeremy Kohler and Nicholas J.C. Pistor

[RightOnTheLeftCoast]

Thanks. Yours is the most valuable and illuminating post in the entire thread. Nothing like a dose of personal experience to clarify the murk.

Glad you’re okay.

[RightOnTheLeftCoast]

"Skeeters don’t carry the Lyme...it’s the ticks that do. Baby ticks that live on mice. V’s wife."

Biting flies carry it too. That's how I got my dose. The mistaken notion that only ticks carry it is unique to the United States.

[RightOnTheLeftCoast]

"I remember reading years ago about a preacher who shot himself in the head during a skit. The gun was loaded with blanks, but a piece of the casing came loose and was shot into his skull just like a bullet would have."

A piece of casing doesn't have to come loose. The supersonic column of gases from the cartridge's explosion is enough to disrupt the skull. That's what happened to an actor and model, Jon-Erik Hexum, back in the '80s. Frustrated with the many takes in some show he was taping, he jokingly put a blank-loaded prop gun to his temple and pulled the trigger. The End, you might say.

[drtom]

Borellia Burgdorfi is a spirochete: different from a bacteria, no? V’s wife.

Nope. Spirochetes are a phylum within the domain bacteria. In laymen's terms, spirochetes are type of bacteria.

[ventana]

OK, doc! V’s wife. But I thought that because they are not exactly bacteria, but structurally different, that is why regular dosing with an antibiotic was tricky. V’s wife.

[GodBlessUSA]

a dose of personal experience to clarify the murk

I know Lyme Disease is a miserable debilitating disease. How do you know others don't have personal experience with Lyme and just do not post about it? Maybe experience is what encouraged some to post.

This is a poorly written article. The title alone draws the conclusion, which is not a proved fact. This article and some posts are based on speculation. What meds was he on? What other health issues did he possibly have? Did he have any mental illness prior to Lyme? Does he drink?.... On and on.

Some posts are also speculation about this disease. Like the comment Lyme Disease rots the brain. That's wrong. It's not the typical neurological aspects of this disease. It is an awful disease but should be noted not a mental illness as a whole. Just saying.....

A source to my point yesterday
Link
Fox News ~ Can Lyme disease lead to violence, even murder?

“It’s possible, but the problem is, something being reported doesn’t always mean it’s the cause. For example, someone may have psychosis or seizures — but Lyme disease may not be the cause — so you have to be really careful.”

The fact is that Lyme disease is very tricky.

“Determining whether Lyme disease is the cause of a related factor is the art of medicine," Siegel said. “It’s not an automatic — it depends on the case

[Beowulf9]

Oh, I know it was supposed to be about predjudice but it really served the liberal agenda after they got done with it, and not by accident.

Check out the movie Giant. At the end the kid that inherits the wealth is the kid from Mexican dissent. Another message that the country seemed to miss, ‘we’re handing your country over to the nonwhite nations’.

Hollywood has had an agenda for years. They’re communists.

[He Rides A White Horse]

Lyme is nothing to mess around with. I’ve had it myself, fortunately caught early after just two weeks, but not before it caused joint and eye issues. Fortunately it’s readily addressed with some common and benign antibiotics.

I feel your pain.

[He Rides A White Horse]

The problem is that there aren’t any reliable tests, most doctors diagnose by interviewing patients. Then there are those who refuse to acknowledge that tertiary illness even exists.

[Born Conservative]

Amoxicillin or Ceftin is used as well, both of which are generic (both are used in kids, as they cannot take Doxy before the age of 10). The IV treatment is Ceftriaxone.