For Lyme disease, you literally cannot disentangle the biological diagnosis from the clinical diagnosis. Why? Lyme titers can stay positive indefinitely because

For Lyme disease, you literally cannot disentangle the biological diagnosis from the clinical diagnosis. Why? Lyme titers can stay positive indefinitely because you do not measure borrelia directly. It's a spirochete, so this is completely understandable. Once you get infected one time, you will make antibody for years, or indefinitely. This is why the CDC requires biochemical evidence and the right clinical context. Nobody is saying Lyme doesn't exist. Most doctors have diagnosed Lyme - there are over 30,000 reported cases annually. It's neither rare nor controversial. I am saying that Stage 3 Lyme has a specific set of symptoms that are inconsistent with what savemylife describes. Allen Steere is saying that "chronic Lyme" is not an infectious disease caused by borrelia. Savemylife's Lyme diagnosis was done only biochemically, which is not consistent with the CDC diagnostic criteria for reasons I described above. He was then treated for a year - a risky proposition in itself - and was unhelped. Spirochetes are notoriously susceptible to antibiotics. If you only take one dose of doxy, you cure ~75% of all Lyme cases. It's that easy! After 2 weeks of doxy, the cure rate is nearly 100%. After a year, you are simply eradicating native gut flora. He does not have Lyme disease. He has a real problem; this is not it, and pushing him towards sexy, grabbag, but clearly incorrect diagnostic labels helps nobody.