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Funny how he only mentions that his blood work was positive for Lyme disease after the first round of antibiotics, and then fails to mention the status after th
by ajhurliman 7y ago
Funny how he only mentions that his blood work was positive for Lyme disease after the first round of antibiotics, and then fails to mention the status after the second treatment.
I'm guessing it was negative after that, so his entire tirade is about asking doctors for antibiotics when there's nothing to indicate that they have Lyme disease other than the patient's own opinion.
- mkonecny 7y agoIf you had read the article you would see that the test will always be positive after you get infected because the tests only shows whether you've had an immunie response to the disease in the past.
- ajhurliman 7y agoWhen someone has an ongoing, active infection with Lyme your IgM antibodies should be positive which indicates acute or ongoing infection. After you've been treated for Lyme disease your IgG levels will remain positive, but your IgM should disappear. So no, it's not impossible to tell if they have an active infection and my point still stands. There's a whole community of people who may (or may not) have had Lyme disease in the past and blame anything and everything on it. Lyme disease can cause permanent conditions neurological degradation that won't go away once the infection has been treated, or it may be something completely different. However, "chronic Lyme disease" is not a thing.
- anarchy8 7y agoThe article mentions how unreliable testing for Lyme is.
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