'I spend $1000 a week on 治療': Woman with rare and debilitating illness says she can't get help in Australia because doctors '辞退する' to 扱う/治療する her

  • A woman has been 軍隊d to spend $1,000 per week 扱う/治療するing her rare 条件
  • Madison Rapa returned from a holiday in the US and suddenly fell terribly unwell
  • The 26-year-old 契約d Lyme 病気 from tick bite while travelling overseas
  • Australian 政府 won't recognise illness and it 存在 苦しむd in country?

A young woman has been 軍隊d to spend as much as $1,000 per week 扱う/治療するing her rare and 無能にするing illness because doctors 辞退する to recognise the 条件.

Madison Rapa, a 26-year-old businesswoman from Melbourne, returned from a holiday across the 部隊d 明言する/公表するs two years ago and suddenly fell ill.

She began experiencing heart and 肺 問題/発行するs, 苦しむd memory loss, had extreme 疲労,(軍の)雑役, uncontrollable migraines and nausea.?

Ms Rapa spoke to someone who had Lyme 病気, who recommended she have her 血 見本s sent to America.?It was then she discovered she had the 手足を不自由にする/(物事を)損なうing 条件.

The 条件 is so rare in Australia it is not covered by Medicare and barely even 定評のある because there is 'little 証拠' of it 存在 契約d in the country, によれば the 政府.

Madison Rapa (pictured), a 26-year-old businesswoman from Melbourne, returned from a holiday across the United States two years ago and suddenly fell terribly unwell

Madison Rapa (pictured), a 26-year-old businesswoman from Melbourne, returned from a holiday across the 部隊d 明言する/公表するs two years ago and suddenly fell terribly unwell

Ms Rapa (pictured right with a friend) contracted Lyme Disease, a condition so rare it is not covered by Medicare and barely even acknowledged within Australia?

Ms Rapa (pictured 権利 with a friend) 契約d Lyme 病気, a 条件 so rare it is not covered by Medicare and barely even 定評のある within Australia?

After visiting 47 different doctors, 存在 misdiagnosed countless times and spending over $100,000 on 治療, Ms Rapa has been 軍隊d into extreme 対策.

She was 最初 told her symptoms were 予定 to 'ageing', but after 存在 left 'rolling around in agony' after eating something as simple as an almond, the 26-year-old sought help overseas.

A friend 始める,決める up a (人が)群がる-基金ing page for her to travel to Malaysia where she would receive 医療の attention not 申し込む/申し出d in Australia.

Ms Rapa now has a doctor in Sydney that has helped her work through the worst symptoms and take 支配(する)/統制する of the 条件, but it has taken more than two-and-a-half years and 抱擁する 量s of money.

'I have to travel interstate to see the doctor and 非,不,無 of it is covered by Medicare,' she told News.com.au.

'I've been misdiagnosed so many times I've spent thousands on 治療 for things I didn't have.'

Ms Rapa now has a doctor in Sydney that has helped her work through the worst symptoms and take control of the condition

Ms Rapa now has a doctor in Sydney that has helped her work through the worst symptoms and take 支配(する)/統制する of the 条件

Lyme Disease can be contracted by ticks with?the bacteria Borrelia burgdorferi, found in America and Europe

Lyme 病気 can be 契約d by ticks with?the bacteria Borrelia burgdorferi, 設立する in America and Europe

A friend of Ms Rapa created a GoFundMe page to help her 支払う/賃金 her exorbitant 医療の 法案s, which also 含むd trips to Cyprus in search of a cure.

'Her whole 団体/死体 has been slowly failing her. Madi had been going from doctor to doctor, spending thousands and even travelling interstate to doctors trying to get answers and getting no where,' Olivia Maree said.

One of the 治療s is オゾン therapy, where the 量 of oxygen in the system is 増加するd with the introduction of オゾン, which have been used to 扱う/治療する 癌 and エイズ.?

の中で the therapies used in Malaysia are 茎・取り除く 独房 移植(する)s and hyperthermia.

A friend of Ms Rapa created a GoFundMe page to help her pay her exorbitant medical bills, which also included trips to Cyprus in search of a cure?

A friend of Ms Rapa created a GoFundMe page to help her 支払う/賃金 her exorbitant 医療の 法案s, which also 含むd trips to Cyprus in search of a cure?

'This is a photo of Madi's brain. A normal healthy brain is suppose to have no red areas shown. The doctors have said how lucky she currently is to have no irreversible brain damage,' her friend Olivia Maree wrote

'This is a photo of Madi's brain. A normal healthy brain is suppose to have no red areas shown. The doctors have said how lucky she 現在/一般に is to have no irreversible brain 損失,' her friend Olivia Maree wrote

The NSW 政府 明言する/公表するs the 条件 is 契約d in temperate forests in Europe and America, and that although some bites from east coast ticks can give 類似の symptoms to Lyme 病気, they 非難する 'poor characterisation' for the relation.

'While there is no eviden ce that Lyme 病気 is 原因(となる)d by Australian ticks, there may be other 感染s carried by Australian ticks which may 原因(となる) an 感染 which is 類似の to Lyme 病気. These 感染s remain 貧しく characterised,' the 政府 fact sheet reads.

'Lyme 病気 is not a notifiable 条件 in NSW.'

Ms Rapa said she wants the 政府 to recognise the 条件 and to encourage education for 医療の staff on how to identify it.

'If they don't want to put money into 治療 to help people in my position, then at least don't punish the few people who are,' she said.????

Ms Rapa said she wants the government to recognise the condition and to encourage education for medical staff on how to identify it

Ms Rapa said she wants the 政府 to recognise the 条件 and to encourage education for 医療の staff on how to identify it

WHAT IS LYME DISEASE?

Lyme 病気 is 原因(となる)d by a bacteria that is transmitted to humans through the bite of 感染させるd 黒人/ボイコット-legged ticks.

The most ありふれた symptoms of the 病気 are fever, 頭痛, 疲労,(軍の)雑役 and a 肌 無分別な called erythema migrans.

The 病気 can typically be 扱う/治療するd by several weeks of oral 抗生物質s.

But if left untreated, the 感染 can spread to the 共同のs, heart and nervous symptoms and be deadly.??

WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU ARE INFECTED?

During the first three to 30 days of 感染, these symptoms may occur:

  • Fever
  • 冷気/寒がらせるs
  • 頭痛
  • 疲労,(軍の)雑役
  • Muscle and 共同の aches
  • Swollen lymph nodes
  • Erythema migrans (EM) 無分別な?

The 無分別な occurs in だいたい 80 per cent of 感染させるd people.

It can 拡大する to up to 12 インチs (30 cm), 結局 (疑いを)晴らすing and giving off the 外見 of a 的 or a 'bull's-注目する,もくろむ'.

Later symptoms of Lyme 病気 含む:

  • 厳しい 頭痛s and neck stiffness
  • 付加 無分別なs
  • Arthritis with 共同の 苦痛 and swelling
  • Facial or Bell's palsy
  • Heart palpitations
  • Problems with short-称する,呼ぶ/期間/用語 memory
  • 神経 苦痛?

Source: CDC

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