Sign the Lyme petition at the White House's website!!!

I signed it! Please everyone get involved. Getting the IDSA treatment guidelines changed is the first step. We need to create awareness so they can research and find a treatment that works!!!

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Here is a copy of the petition, which is a very good summary of the situation:

"Lyme disease is at epidemic levels, posing a significant threat to public health. Lyme can lead to chronic and debilitating effects if not properly treated. Lyme is leaving masses of people in progressive states of illness and financial ruin. The Infectious Diseases Society of America's treatment guidelines are to blame, they promote the idea that Lyme is a simple, rare illness that is easily cured with 30 days of antibiotics. This is not true. Insurance companies are denying payments for medications even when deemed medically necessary after 30 days. Doctors who treat Lyme patients are being investigated and prosecuted for not conforming to such guidelines. Please sign this petition to reform IDSA guidelines and allow doctors NOT Insurance companies, to decide what is medically necessary."


Unfortunately, people with no direct experience of lyme and similar illnesses, will not understand how important this is. I'm sure there are lots of people out there that suffer with lyme, though, and those are the people we need to see this and sign it. Lyme needs to be a political thing. If people think it's important, then politicians will be forced to make change -- if anything, out of fear of their job security...

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Signed... This is great, please everyone spread the word

 

I can't bear to let this opportunity pass

Did everyone here sign? Please do so, if you have not already The petition can be shared on Facebook or Twitter as well.

I have a good feeling about 2013! It just might be our year for the Lyme community. Let's help make it happen!

You are so right, Lymer!

We really do have an opportunity here. If we let it slip through our finger tips, the next time around we will have to work FOUR times as hard.

So yeah, let's do this

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Awesome! Keep up the great work!

We have 17 days to collect 21,392 signatures.

Does anyone have any ideas to spread the word?

Done & shared. Thanks for posting!