Lymes causing autism???

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So i saw my physician today he says i might have lymes disease and said lymes disease is known for causing psychairitric diseases like the one i have. I like blew up and screamed, im not diseased and said i have a neurological disorder. He was like well lymes may cause that also. Now in all my findings ive heard vaccinations, animal shampoos, environmental, genetics, but never heard of lymes causing autism. Ive been tested for lymes many many many times but he said the tests are more reliable now. He also said lymes caused be causing my tourettes as well.

I'm alittle angry with my doctor, because he also is the one who said i didnt have asthma my breathing problems are due to allergies so once again went back to the allergist and the allergist confirmed that no i have only minor minor allergies to dust and very minor allergies due to cats, but nothing stopping me from breathing like that and to go get an xray of my chest to see if i have asthma! Huh so go figure. So did i get my breathing problem taking care of, no, instead now my physician is saying i have a gas problem thats affecting my breathing, and im congested, so he gave me antibiotics to fix that, oh yay! But Somehow i did find out lymes might be the answer to all my neurological problems

So I decided to ask everybody here what you think about lymes causing autism? and if any of you could give me info on lymes disease, i would appreciate it so much? Also if anybody has experience with lymes, i would love to hear, or if any of you had doctors suspect you had lymes, love to hear also!

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There was a famous women on the internet a few years ago, from Canada I think, called Kathleen (nicknamed by others Kathloon). She used to post vast quantities of information about her hypothesis that claimed a link between Lyme disease, chronic fatigue syndrome and Asperger's (she claimed she had all three). She blamed the government for not treating her Lyme disease.

No one took her seriously, even more hated her. Her endless, never ending posts were often 10 to 15 pages long. I don't know where she got the energy for her near industrial output of pseudoscience.

So no, there is no connection between Lyme and Asperger's, you can't contract Asperger's via Lyme disease.

Anyone else know of Kathloon? How is she these days?

Almost everybody in my family has had Lyme disease. Wikipedia has a pretty good article on the topic.

Mercury poisoning

Lyme's disease

vaccinations

Anymore "causes"?

How about wearing blue shoes or having black hair?

I suspect we will probably all agree that Lyme disease isn't going to cause ASD.

But here is a more precise question: is it possible for Lyme disease to cause symptons that mimic ASD? To cause someone who is not ASD to present as if they are?

I would personally doubt it, because if that were true it seems to me (strictly off the top of my head, so if I get accused of unresearched conjecture, well, I'm not going to argue it):

a) There should be more cases presenting as late onset or adult onset ASD.
b) There should be more cases of ASD clustering with Lyme disease.

To me those stats would be a way to test the hypothesis.

DW_a_mom,
am would say it is likely it could mimic but not be asd as am have read about it being one of the real diagnosis of those misdiagnosed with adhd.

I was under the impression that Lyme's disease caused brain damage because of the parasite in the blood stream. I don't think brain damage would present as Asperger Syndrome. The person might have movement difficulties but many people with AS, don't have dyspraxia (clumsiness).

Info added to previous post instead.

I did a google search on lymes autism, and this site is the first site that came up that seems to be unbiased: http://autism.about.com/b/2007/01/10/is ... autism.htm