North Carolina Online Lyme Support is a virtual meeting place and source of information and emotional support for people with Lyme and other tick-borne diseases living in North Carolina.

Over 1000 cases of Lyme disease have been reported in North Carolina since 1993. Doctors only report one in 40 cases; therefore there may have been 40,000 actual cases.

North Carolina hosts four kinds of tick that may carry Lyme and/or several other tick-borne diseases, including Rocky Mountain spotted fever, ehrlichiosis, anaplasmosis, Q fever, tularemia, bartonella, and babesiosis.

If the tick that bites you is infected, it can inject Lyme bacteria into your bloodstream within hours of attachment (less than 6 hours has been reported). If you don't notice the tick, infection will occur in almost 100%. The bacteria invade your brain in less than 24 hours.

Lyme disease is under-diagnosed, under-treated, and under-reported. Many people do not remember being bitten by the poppy-seed-sized tick. Doctors often prefer more familiar diagnoses like chronic fatigue, MS, rheumatoid arthritis, or mental illness - all Lyme disease mimics. Too strict interpretation of insensitive tests leaves many people in a diagnostic limbo, getting sicker and without proper treatment. Most cases are not reported, leading to artificially low numbers, less recognition of the true costs of the disease and less funding for research.


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