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Most non-Lyme Literate Medical doctors prescribe Doxycyclin. If you are seeing a Lyme Literate Medical doctor they'll put you on a cocktail (often Clarithromyci
by spacebatsghost 7y ago
Most non-Lyme Literate Medical doctors prescribe Doxycyclin. If you are seeing a Lyme Literate Medical doctor they'll put you on a cocktail (often Clarithromycin, Doxy, Alinia (anti-parasitic), and a few others. This also depends if you have co-infections or not.
- nradov 7y agoThere is no formal certification process for "Lyme Literate Medical Doctors". Many are quacks who don't follow evidence based medicine guidelines. https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/florida-revokes-medical-license-of-lyme-literate-doctor/ https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/florida-revokes-medical-lic...
- twic 7y agoThe UK NICE guidelines suggest doxycycline, and have a section discussing the evidence for that: https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ng95 https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ng95 "Lyme literate" seems to be a pseudoscience term related to the ME-like crypto-syndrome "chronic Lyme disease" - for example, see towards the end here: https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/legislative-alchemy-2014-so-far/ https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/legislative-alchemy-2014-so...
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- Balgair 7y agoA family member is on Doxycyclin for another issue unrelated to Lyme. It has caused them a fair amount of nerve degeneration issues in the toes and fingers. This is perhaps the risk that the some doctors are trying to avoid.