{"id":7034,"date":"2005-05-12T23:04:34","date_gmt":"2005-05-12T13:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michael.ellerman.id.au\/blog\/2005\/05\/12\/no-lymes-here\/"},"modified":"2007-10-25T14:02:04","modified_gmt":"2007-10-25T04:02:04","slug":"no-lymes-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michael.ellerman.id.au\/blog\/2005\/05\/12\/no-lymes-here\/","title":{"rendered":"No Lymes Here!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/mpe\/uploads\/2005\/05\/12\/no-lymes-here\/notlime.jpg\" class=\"float\" \/>For the record more than anything, I think I&#8217;ve told most people &#8230; it turns out I never had Lyme disease after all, because Australian ticks <strong>don&#8217;t<\/strong> carry it.<\/p>\n<p>I found this out the other week when I finally got to see the Infectious Diseases specialist at the Canberra Hospital. What I <em>might<\/em> have had was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wrongdiagnosis.com\/q\/queensland_tick_typhus\/intro.htm\">Queensland Tick Typhus<\/a>, the first Google hit for which happens to be on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wrongdiagnosis.com\/\">www.wrongdiagnosis.com<\/a>, coincidence?<\/p>\n<p>Luckily my GP still gave me the right treatment, which was a course of weapon&#8217;s grade Anti-biotics. So all the little bacteria should be dead by now, hopefully. Unfortunately all the <strong>good<\/strong> bacteria in me are dead too, it was a real slaughter.<\/p>\n<p>I had a blood test to confirm that I really did have QTT, which should be back soonish. Hopefully I won&#8217;t be browing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wrongdiagnosisagain.com\">www.wrongdiagnosisagain.com<\/a> in a few weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the record more than anything, I think I&#8217;ve told most people &#8230; it turns out I never had Lyme disease after all, because Australian ticks don&#8217;t carry it. I found this out the other week when I finally got to see the Infectious Diseases specialist at the Canberra Hospital. What I might have had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[52],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michael.ellerman.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7034"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michael.ellerman.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michael.ellerman.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michael.ellerman.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michael.ellerman.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michael.ellerman.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7034\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michael.ellerman.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michael.ellerman.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michael.ellerman.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}