answer:Unfortunately there is too little known about Lyme disease. For a whole year I took care of a friend who had it, and I know first hand. First, it’s blood borne through ticks, but although the medical people insist you can’t get it through body fluids, there are some people who aren’t so sure. I never shared plates, etc. with her for this reason. If you’ve had it as long as you think you have, it already is well entrenched, and treating it may be not as effective. My friend not only had lyme disease, she also had POTTS, Bartonella, and Hashimoto’s disease as well. In her case, it was as if these different diseases “shook hands”. Whenever they tried to treat one disease, the treatment helped the other(s). It also didn’t help that she could not find a doctor to help her deal with the pain, or to treat the POTTS. She lived in Pennsylvania and Delaware. Apparently in the US, you can only get serious pain medication if you have certain diseases. My friend used to pray she’d get cancer just so she could get some decent pain medication. By the way, Bartonella is considered to be a “dog and cat disease”. Our CDC refuses to let people in this country be tested for it. My friend managed to get a veterinary friend to test her for Bartonella and it came back positive (apparently this is illegal). She also had photographs of her blood with the bartonella bacteria all over her blood cells, but they still would not treat it. The lesson is, be glad you at least have a disease that’s legal to treat in this country. I’ll post more if I think of it.