Great articles Keg! In addition, the NYTimes yesterday had an article about Stage III or
Chronic Lyme Disease...what happens if you do not, or can not, adequately treat Lyme symptoms in a timely manner.
According to the article, Lyme research is terribly underfunded by the NIH. Meanwhile Lyme is becoming a very large and little-understood disease.
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The condition is known as post-treatment Lyme disease syndrome, or PTLDS. It is a real disorder, although nobody really knows what’s happening. A lot of patients have been told they’re not really sick, just tired or depressed. But this is not normal fatigue, and it’s not caused by depression...
Intravenous antibiotic therapy for PTLDS is based on disputed reports that these patients may harbor hidden reservoirs of the spirochete causing Lyme disease...But researchers have found it of little or no benefit, and many say the regimen is fraught with hazards that could be even worse than the illness...