Madison Area Lyme Support Group

Excerpts:

• Singer-songwriter Kris Kristofferson, known for writing the hit song “Me and Bobby McGee,” had been falsely diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. Instead, the country star was actually suffering from a tick-borne illness known as lyme disease.
• “But we suspect he’s been infected with Lyme anywhere from fourteen to thirty years because he used to have these chronic muscle spasms, which is a common symptom. We were in LA at the time, in Malibu, and I just don’t think doctors were looking for it or aware of it there then. But now we know it’s everywhere. There are signs on my local playground that say beware of ticks.”
• Kristofferson’s wife added, “He had painful knees and annual knee shots, a pacemaker for arrhythmias– which we now know could be from Lyme- so much Advil for headaches that he got anemic. After a year of iron supplements and seeing a hematologist, he just wasn’t healthy-looking so I took him to an integrative doctor, Mark Filidei, at Whitaker Wellness Institute.

  “Upon examining Kris and watching the muscles in his forearms constantly twitching, he announced, ‘He’s got Lyme disease,’ and ordered a blood test. The first test from LabCorp came back suspicious, the second test by IGeneX was positive. This was in February 2016.”

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**Comment**

The article then moves onto cancer because the website focuses on minsdiagnosises.  The advice to those diagnosed with cancer:  be proactive, seek out multiple opinions, and “be a little pushy,” also holds true for Lyme/MSIDS due to the severe polarization within the medical community.  Your best bet for achieving wellness is going to come from a Lyme literate doctor (LLMD).

Lastly, there has been research done on the connection between Lyme and cancer as well as in other coinfections.

For more:

• https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/05/16/lyme-disease-awareness-month-kris-kristofferson-was-misdiagnosed-with-alzheimers-memory-loss-was-due-to-ticks/
• https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2020/11/15/stigma-a-morgellons-discussion-on-mental-health-kris-kristoffersons-example-of-misdiagnosis/
• https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2017/01/18/a-bug-for-alzheimers/
• https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2022/06/30/infectious-agents-and-alzheimers-disease/
• https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2016/06/03/borrelia-hiding-in-worms-causing-chronic-brain-diseases/
• https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2018/03/25/a-brief-history-of-neuroborreliosis-research-dementia-an-inside-look-at-two-researchers/
• https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2021/11/22/could-an-80-year-old-drug-cure-alzheimers-disease/