Hi Jinx,

I’m sorry I didn’t get back to you earlier. My computer mouse broke.

Anyway, as I said in my post above if I were you, I’d go to the hospital and get checked out for infection and stroke. You could have a viral infection or a bacterial infection that is causing these symptoms. It IS possible to have more than one thing going on here – you know you have the mercury problem, but you could also have infection going on.

On the lack of insurance, could your parents help you out in paying for a hospital visit?

The hospital might not be Lyme Literate, so if you get a negative result that doesn’t mean that you don’t have Lyme. Seeing a doctor who specializes in Lyme is the way to find out whether you have it or not. But the hospital can check you for other infections too – particularly viral infections and other bacterial infections that can cause the meningitis-type symptoms.

Lymie mentioned on this thread about meningitis-type symptoms, I thought I’d share that I also have had meningitis-type symptoms from Lyme Disease.

Anyway, here are some links to help you try to find a Lyme specialist. I’ve included so much in case one reference doesn’t work out you can try another.

This is a discussion board. I haven’t joined it. But it is a European discussion board and they might be able to make a good recommendation to you for a Lyme doc.

http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/EuroLyme/


This is a link to a good website on Lyme. Scroll down to the Resources section and you’ll see a section on Poland. When clicking on the section some info comes up with an address. It’s in Polish so I can’t read it. But perhaps they could recommend a Lyme doc to you.

http://www.lymeinfo.net/international.html


This website (CanLyme) is very helpful as well. This website has information about a Lyme Conference that was held in the UK in 2005 (I had to use the site’s search feature to find this). Listed on the roster is a geneticist from Poland. Dr. Beata Wodecka. Perhaps you could contact this person and ask for recommendations for a Lyme Doc. Here is the link to the CanLyme website, as well as a link to the

http://www.canlyme.com/

http://www.aaem.pl/pdf/10171.htm

And, finally, here is a link to the Lyme Disease Association. They have a doctor referral section. I don’t know whether this includes international referrals. But I’m including this anyway.

http://www.lymediseaseassociation.org/Doctor_Referrals.html

Many Lyme Literate Doctors also know a great deal about metal toxicity. They tend to see a lot of people with both metal toxicity and Lyme and Lyme Co-Infections. And many of the Lyme Doctors are also well versed in evaluating patients for other types of infections – both bacterial and viral.

Hope this helps, Jinx.

Sharon