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Something about this smells fishy. Informing that [Chronic Lyme as a concept is dubious at best](https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/fake-diagnoses-not-fake-diseas
by valec 7y ago
Something about this smells fishy. Informing that [Chronic Lyme as a concept is dubious at best](https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/fake-diagnoses-not-fake-diseases/ https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/fake-diagnoses-not-fake-dis...), this sounds a lot like people worried about "whole-body Candida infections" or Wi-Fi poisoning or whatnot. Even if the symptoms are real, they could be a result from the nocebo effect or some other untreated illness.
All of this on top of medium blogs being able to be made by anybody sets off my pseudo-science alarms.
- black6 7y agoAnd he sure is branding himself well! All the pictures are of him looking pensive out in nature.
- sound_and_form 7y agoYeah, totally. Now that the instagram influencer market is fading, chronic disease is the new bandwagon pathway to internet success.
- overthemoon 7y agoIll-defined and/or poorly understood diseases like this are a magnet for cranks and grifters, from "Lyme-literate" doctors who don't take insurance and prescribe muscle relaxants and antibiotics until you run out of money or ignorant bloggers hawking fake science. There's a lot of noise re "Chronic Lyme", whatever that might be. That being said, ~something~ is going on. My wife tested positive for Lyme, went on a round of antibiotics, and the symptoms didn't go away. She continues to suffer fatigue and chronic pain.
- linuxftw 7y agoThere's another tick-born illness that makes people allergic to mammal proteins. Have her abstain from all mammal products for some time to see if the situation improves. https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/alpha-gal-syndrome/symptoms-causes/syc-20428608 https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/alpha-gal-syn...