After nearly 4 years of my battle with Lyme, I finally found a doctor who cured me with an essentially illegal combination of antibiotics (4x the max daily dosa

After nearly 4 years of my battle with Lyme, I finally found a doctor who cured me with an essentially illegal combination of antibiotics (4x the max daily dosage of doxycycline for 18 months). In her words, this will be bad, but not nearly as bad as not treating your Lyme. I haven't had any symptoms for 3 years now and am in best health I've ever been. Occasionally, however, I am still reminded of how ignorant our medical institutions are about this disease. Recently I switched to Kaiser and during my intake process I mentioned my chronic Lyme, at which point the MD corrected me that there's no such a thing. He explained to me that he has all those years of experience, and that he has had to correct so many people about their misconceptions about Lyme. According to him, Lyme is like fever that you treat once at a time (and no longer than 4 weeks max). After my push back, he called in their in infectious disease specialist, who repeated the same thing, word by word. They even wanted to know the name of my specialist, claiming that it was irresponsible of her to give me that treatment (I didn't share her info). I don't doubt that these two gentlemen are doing their best to help out their patients. I also realize that some kid in their practice will unlikely be able to shatter their firm beliefs that they had acquired in their decade-long training at prestigious universities. It just makes me sad that hundreds of other kids will be less lucky than I was, and will be left alone trying to figure out what's wrong with them, because obviously it can't be Lyme. In words of my angel doctor, Lyme is the worst curable disease out there - it's a shame we don't cure more people.