claims and counter claims relating to such a risk.” () Scientists and anti-vaxxers have been at such odds Decently long odds I’d say. What are the odds? Eerie, I know. Those odds would be so long, they would appear to be incalculable. What are the odds that this is all a stroke of absurd coincidence?

But add in the intermittent joint pain, swollen knee, odd rash, and irregular heartbeat, and that Lyme Very odd. MS? Something else?” Might just be MS with odd symptoms, which is fine and dandy. If that’s the case.” “Might just be MS with odd symptoms, which is fine and dandy,” I wrote on February 21, 2005, with this A reminder, I’ve traveled to some odd (and not so odd) places in the months prior to the onset of symptoms

The reporting odds ratio represents the odds of a certain adverse event (in this case, ‘multiple sclerosis ’) occurring with the drug of interest, compared to the odds of the same adverse event occurring with denotes the presence of an inverse association, defined when the upper limit of the 95% CI for reporting odds I remember thinking that was odd. Really odd.

But for doctors and medical researchers, this “proof” from Jessica is merely an odd needle in a haystack medical literature concerning undetected Lyme disease that is suddenly and shockingly unearthed—random odd case study after random odd case study—easily dismissed needles. Worse, if one doesn’t practice in a tick hotspot, odds of them detecting—much less suspecting—Lyme disease

Puerto Rico is nearly the same latitude as Thailand (only two degrees of difference), yet the odds of out of 3,900, the prevalence in Black South Africans craters to 1 out of 454,000, among the lowest odds

Odd spots on the brain MRI? Unexplained symptoms causing a rash of issues? risky stem cell transplant trial where I had to sign a consent form, one that said I was okay with the odds What are the odds? Must just be another coincidence, so say the researchers. Ipso facto.

Yet often there’s an odd surprise: continued UTIs without a documented “I”—tests that repeatedly turn both diseases concurrently—and there certainly are the sporadic cases of MS being misdiagnosed as Lyme—odds So, if you have multiple sclerosis, itself a somewhat uncommon disease, it’s rather odd that you would Second, the odds of being misdiagnosed don’t change much with experience or stature.

To put all of this into perspective, your basic odds of getting misdiagnosed with MS is on par with rolling I’ve been injuring myself exercising in odd ways for years it seems.

ticks are relatively uncommon), have undiagnosed Lyme disease, and visit a doctor to investigate, the odds California as opposed to the Pacific Northwest where the Lyme-carrying ixodes pacificus tick resides, the odds blazing tick endemic hotspots—i.e., looking at you rural Pennsylvania and the Minnesota lake region—the odds

By morning he had a fever and, odd, one of his legs felt weak. If they can survive that personal, self-inflicted gauntlet, the odds improve that one day those ideas

Miraculously, against punishing odds, I did.

Odd. Only the right side of my face didn’t smile back. It couldn’t be a stroke at 37, could it? Only later did I find out that most people in my shoes experiencing odd neurological symptoms out of