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Originally Posted by numbskull
People should be aware that the diagnosis and treatment of "chronic lyme disease" is very controversial and well done clinical trials have failed to demonstrate a benefit from long term antibiotic RX.
This doesn't mean patients who have had lyme and don't fully recover are not sick, just that there is no confirmed way to "cure" them.
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Just as with many diseases, treatments for CHRONIC Lyme are individualized, and because there hasn’t been ONE “confirmed” way to treat it, doesn’t mean there aren’t treatments that work , and that it shouldn’t be addressed with further studies and continued treatment of people with positive tests and a large number of symptoms. Invalidating people’s experiences only encourages them not to be open about their experiences and discourages collective study.
You are correct: there is controversy within the medical field over whether Lyme is 1) hard to contract and easy to cure, or 2) easy to contract and hard to cure. And yet, there are increasing numbers of specialists, and increasing evidence of many common complaints/ailments being attributed to chronic Lyme, so it would be premature to be dismissive. And it is also true, that some people will never be cured of Lyme, and that is truly unfortunate, but that can be said of many other illnesses, and people are willing to try the currently understood treatments, or participate in clinical trials in the hope of finding a treatment that will work for them and even possibly become the Standard of Care.
And MarshCappa, it is true that it takes at least 24 hours for a tick to transmit Lyme disease, as the spirochete lives in the gut of the tick, and requires the tick taking in a blood meal for the spirochete to activate in the gut and then travel up the gut and into the host. But you must be certain that it was less than 24 hours, and if not, an early dosing of antibiotics has been shown to work on acute Lyme.
I will refrain from any other posts in this thread.