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New studies offer insight into Lyme disease’s treatment, lingering symptoms
- AnthonBerg 2y agoThe studies mentioned (but not linked?): https://scholar.google.com/scholar?oi=bibs&hl=en&cluster=17981514188681742351 https://scholar.google.com/scholar?oi=bibs&hl=en&cluster=179... https://scholar.google.com/scholar?oi=bibs&hl=en&cluster=3846230660850991448 https://scholar.google.com/scholar?oi=bibs&hl=en&cluster=384...
- jadbox 2y agoThis is desperately needed. I have Midwest family who have suffered ten years due to persistent lyme disease from having a single tick bite.
- registeredcorn 2y agoSame. Family member who lived out around Utah and Colorado. She had been racked with pain for something like 15-20 years. She was going to doctors constantly, trying to figure out what was wrong. She was labeled as a "drug seeker" and got shoved around for years as a result. Later on, she came across a doctor who happened to used to live in the North East and recognized it as Lyme disease pretty much instantly. She still deals with pain on a constant on-going basis, but has been slightly lessened with more targeted medications, etc. Hopefully something like this can offer her and others like her some sustainable, long-term relief.
- adregan 2y agoWasn’t there a new Lyme’s vaccine in the works due to come out soon? Anyone aware of how that’s going?
- giantg2 2y agoThe one I heard about is supposed to be an antibody injection.
- bluGill 2y agoIn clinical trials - the one I was able to find has the first report due end of 2026, with the final end of 2027. I assume 6 months or a year after that to do paperwork before approval so I'm guessing late 2028 before we get it (assuming it passes trial, which isn't a given)
- colinwilyb 2y agoClinical trials still ongoing. https://www.pfizer.com/news/press-release/press-release-detail/phase-3-valor-lyme-disease-trial-valneva-and-pfizer https://www.pfizer.com/news/press-release/press-release-deta...
- giantg2 2y agoI thought that there are approved human vaccines, but they were voluntarily removed due to economic reasons and lack of adoption.
- bluGill 2y agoThere was, withdrawn in 2002. Protection wanes so even if you were one of the few who got it then you have no protection today. There are a couple new vaccines in the works, one in phase 3 testing so hopefully we get something in a few years.
- mplanchard 2y agoYeah there's what looks like a solid candidate going through a variety of worldwide trials right now.[0] Very hopeful for a meaningful means of prevention in the coming years. [0]: https://www.pfizer.com/news/press-release/press-release-detail/phase-3-valor-lyme-disease-trial-valneva-and-pfizer https://www.pfizer.com/news/press-release/press-release-deta...
- giantg2 2y agoHow is this really different from the previous Lymerix? Aren't they both 3 shot series and OspA based?
- giantg2 2y agoIt was withdrawn, but the approval was never revoked.
- bluGill 2y agoTrue, and I suppose the patent is expired by now so you could in theory start making it. Though the FDA has rules about how you can produce such things. Probably better for a company to risk/start a new vaccine which they can patent and thus get some benefit that way vs one out of patent. Also just because you can legally make it doesn't mean it is practical. It may require other things that are not longer made, or specific equipment that would be expensive to recreate. Still this is an opportunity for someone in India (where a lot of generic drugs are made already, though the country doesn't matter) if they want to. I don't hike as much in areas where Lyme is common as I used to, but I'd still take a vaccine if I could. (I didn't know the vaccine existed in 2001 or I would have)
- dev_l1x_be 2y agoIt is kinda funny that humanity can kills entire species like the dodo while cannot eradicate a bacterium like Borrelia.
- quesera 2y agoBig things are easier to eradicate, especially if they are slow, unaccustomed to being prey, and nutritious. Eradicating a bacterium with wild animal reservoir populations (deer, white-footed mice, black-legged ticks, all of which are endemic species) is ... a much harder problem.
- monster_truck 2y agoIf I could hunt Borrelia with spears it would be over
- voidmain0001 2y agoI would like to kill more deer which are part of the Lyme cycle. There are so many in the rural area I live, they remind of big city rats.
- diamondfist25 2y agoMake wolves great again
- rarrrrrr 2y agoStrangely enough, there's even some likelihood that killing off the passenger pigeon actually promoted Borrelia burgdorferi. The passenger pigeon's main food source was tree mast. Large flocks of pigeons would descend and clear the forest floor of food. After it went extinct, the population of small animals which also eat tree mast exploded, and these are reservoir species for Borrelia.
- BurningFrog 2y agoA Passenger Pigeon relaunch is planned for 2032: https://reviverestore.org/projects/about-the-passenger-pigeon/ https://reviverestore.org/projects/about-the-passenger-pigeo...
- CyberDildonics 2y agoBypassing the clickbait we have this: In two new studies led by bacteriologist Brandon L. Jutras, Northwestern scientists have identified an antibiotic that cures Lyme disease at a fraction of the dosage of the current “gold standard” treatment and discovered what may cause a treated infection to mimic chronic illness in patients. The studies were published in the journal Science Translational Medicine.
- bentt 2y agoThis is amazing and really needed in the northern US and Canada. It is also great they speak to the chronic lyme condition because many people get accused of it being psychosomatic or even false (similar with long Covid). Their theory of it being bacterial remnants in the liver is validating.
- ixtli 2y agoIts sad that we needed to have a partially avoidable mass death due to COVID in order for people to start considering these chronic conditions more broadly in society. People have been having these issues for generations.
- bentt 2y agoI mean, sure. But some things are just really complex and the root causes are very, very difficult to pin down. There was a lot sad about COVID, but like 4000th on the list is how it revealed the human dynamics that lead to chronic diseases being overlooked because science has no valid explanation for what's happening to patients. I say this as someone who suffered from Lyme Disease for a number of years.
- agos 2y agolook at it the other way: we got a couple of unexpected silver linings from the COVID hell. one is attention to these chronic conditions (finally!)
- bentt 2y agoYes! It's vital that we continue to look for opportunities in the midst of such a crisis.
- almosthere 2y agoNow everyone agrees, experts are just normal people that have built a bias towards one ideological thing or another. Long COVID? (looks up "party" stance)... that doesn't exist. Eat Apples.
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- ChrisArchitect 2y agoEarlier release that links the study: https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2025/04/the-antibiotic-that-takes-the-bite-out-of-lyme/?fj=1 https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2025/04/the-antibiotic... (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43863980 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43863980)
- netaustin 2y agoI contracted Lyme disease while on vacation in Cape Cod last year. The first symptom was left-side facial paralysis, which my physician diagnosed as Bell's Palsy, so I spent two weeks on steroids before we figured out the real issue. Three weeks of doxycycline cured the Lyme but left feeling pretty wrecked for more than a month afterwards! I seem to have avoided the chronic symptoms some people experience, but a low-dose antibiotic would have been great.
- hentrep 2y agoDisclaimer: Not a doctor. I think you’re alluding to this in your last statement, but standard treatment for Lyme can absolutely wreck your natural gut microbiome. This could explain some of the lingering chronic effects post-treatment. Did you try supplementing with fermented foods or probiotics after completing dox?
- netaustin 2y agoOh yeah, it just took time. Pill-based probiotics didn’t seem to work, but food (or time) did after a couple months.
- voidmain0001 2y agoI'm on a second round of Doxy. The first was 21 days and now I have a 60 day prescription. It doesn't knock me out. I take the first dose early in the morning with a lot of water. I don't eat until noon, but not before first taking a capsule of probiotics to replenish gut bacteria. I take the second Doxy in the evening with a meal. Then 3 hours later I take another probiotic capsule to restore gut bacteria overnight. Maybe that regime is helping or maybe I'm just fortunate.
- ToDougie 2y agoWhich probiotic?
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- binary132 2y agoAnd here I thought “long Lyme” had been proven fake.
- gavin-1 2y ago"long Lyme" isn't well defined, but you're probably thinking of chronic lyme [1]. This article refers to PTLD. The distinction matters. Chronic lyme is quackery that encourages people to pursue aggressive long-term antibiotic treatment for a non-existent persistent bacterial infection. Often these are people who have never been infected with Borrelia in the first place. The article directly contradicts the persistent (undetectable) bacterial infection "chronic lyme" theory. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronic_Lyme_disease https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronic_Lyme_disease
- voidmain0001 2y agoAgreed. Long Lyme certainly exists. I appear to have it as do numerous acquaintances. I wrote "appear to have it" because a blood test for Borrelia returns negative. However, just two weeks ago a doctor told me that Borrelia can evade a blood test by infecting the nervous system. That was news to me so I found this from NIH in the USA. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8870494/ https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8870494/ Borrelia can cross over to the CNS. Lovely.
- IncreasePosts 2y agoWhat symptoms? How can you say your symptoms are from long Lyme, and not something else, or just getting old?
- voidmain0001 2y agoMy symptoms are spot on with Acrodermatitis chronica atrophicans. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acrodermatitis_chronica_atrophicans https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acrodermatitis_chronica_atroph... https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK563289/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK563289/
- loeg 2y ago> Northwestern scientists identified that piperacillin, an antibiotic in the same class as penicillin, effectively cured mice of Lyme disease at 100-times less than the effective dose of doxycycline. Would be nice if it translates to humans. > The authors argue that piperacillin, which has already been FDA-approved as a safe treatment for pneumonia, could also be a candidate for preemptive interventions for those potentially exposed to Lyme (with a known deer tick bite).
- hn_acc1 2y agoAs someone allergic to doxycycline (was given it as a kid, had a huge rash all over my body), that sounds helpful if I ever need it.
- elric 2y agoNot allergic myself, but tetracyclines basically turn me into a vampire, the slighest bit of sun exposure burns me to a crisp. Very unpleasant.
- dcchambers 2y agoThis is fantastic news. I live in Wisconsin - a tick and Lyme Disease hot spot. Ticks are one of the few bugs that really freak me out due to Lyme Disease, especially for my kids who spend a lot of time out playing in the grass. Any news on the development of the fight against Lyme Disease is great news. One key thing I've learned is that ticks are very unlikely to spread disease-causing bacteria within the first few hours of biting. So just do regular checks whenever you've been outside in tick-prone areas and get them off right away if found. If removed promptly the chance of infection is basically zero.
- charlangas 2y agoBoth of my sisters (currently mid-30s) have had their lives on pause for over 10 years due to chronic Lyme disease because doctors in Mexico hadn't ever even heard of it. It took 4 years of pain for the first of them to be diagnosed. Not sure when, if ever, they'll be cured because when you don't treat Lyme disease within a few months of infection, it digs in and is incredibly difficult to kill.
- Aurornis 2y ago> Not sure when, if ever, they'll be cured because when you don't treat Lyme disease within a few months of infection, it digs in and is incredibly difficult to kill FYI, the idea that active infection continues to exist in hiding within the body is a fringe theory. The linked article talks about one of the current theories for why some patients have persistent symptoms after the infection is treated. The theory involves certain components of the past infection lodging themselves in the liver where they persist and can cause symptoms. This is a difficult topic because some alternative Lyme treatment providers will tell patients they have a persistent infection and then subject them to years of high-dose antibiotics with no scientific basis, which can create a separate set of problems without addressing anything.
- thedougd 2y agoYes, and they use non-specific testing that will produce a positive result in most people. There's a massive scam industry around Lyme and it's a shame because it interferes with legitimate suffers' ability to get honest treatment. Or worse, sends those who don't have Lyme down a rabbit hole where their actual condition is never treated.
- elric 2y ago> This is a difficult topic because some alternative Lyme treatment providers will tell patients they have a persistent infection and then subject them to years of high-dose antibiotics with no scientific basis, which can create a separate set of problems without addressing anything. I know someone who has been suffering from what they call "chronic lyme" for years. These people are painfully well aware of the unlikeliness of antibiotics fixing them, and they're very much aware of the problems being caused by antibiotics. But the alternative ("doing nothing") isn't helping them either, so they cling to the hope that the antibiotics will do "something". It doesn't help that they're stigmatised. They're "lazy". They're "faking it". It isn't a "real disease". None of that helps them. Maybe the antibiotics don't help them either, but at least they have a chance of doing something.
- formerphotoj 2y agoFor more info on Lyme and related difficult to identify diseases, NYT columnist Ross Douhat wrote a book about his experience w/ Lyme and his ongoing adaptations. It's called... The Deep Places: A Memoir of Illness and Discovery
- 3D30497420 2y agoOn a related note, the Trump administration frozen more than $790 million in federal funding for NU because of "ongoing federal antisemitism investigations": https://dailynorthwestern.com/2025/05/05/lateststories/by-the-numbers-the-trump-administration-has-frozen-millions-in-federal-support-for-northwestern-heres-what-it-means-for-science-funding-on-campus/ https://dailynorthwestern.com/2025/05/05/lateststories/by-th...
- boplicity 2y agoThis is what the "fight" with "elite" universities is really about: No longer funding research. That's the most important aspect of this thing. Every other aspect of this is a sideshow to the main event. And the main event very much is the de-funding of scientific research. No longer funding this research is a huge change. And one that will eventually have far-reaching consequences for everyone.
- 3D30497420 2y agoI think it is even broader than that. It is removing any potential opposition. That opposition is independent institutions, such as universities, but also the truth itself. If there's no one to research things, then how will you know if something is "true" or not? If there's no one to communicate those findings, how will anyone find out? Etc.
- throw310822 2y ago> This is what the "fight" with "elite" universities is really about: No longer funding research. No, sorry, the fight with the universities is quite clearly to crush criticism of Israel and all forms of identity politics. The stops in funding for research are a means to achieve this plainly declared objective.
- roody15 2y agoMy mother got a tick bite and felt off and the doctor told her she had allergies and sinus infection due to high pollen. Luckily my younger brother is a physician and told her to go back and ask for a Lyme disease test. They said okay but said Lyme disease is really rare and wasn’t necessary. Long story short she was positive but was caught early enough that 30 days Doxy was all she needed. That same year I was bitten and had a super itchy spot near my private regions. It was crazy itch and made a bullseye rash. I went to a clinic and they said they had never seen the bullseye rash and it was textbook Lyme disease (or one other common tick disease). Same was treated with Doxy and was fine. It’s an strange disease because if caught early super cheap antibiotics work well… but if has spread through your body it can take years to recover and be quite serious!
- The5thElephant 2y agoWhy have I heard so many stories of doctors not wanting to diagnose something as Lyme disease?
- soulofmischief 2y agoI literally used to get laughed out of the clinic, told I was a healthy young male and just needed to exercise more. After a decade of this, I was finally diagnosed with gout, something doctors had just been lying about testing for. No one could believe someone could have gout in their 20s (It's been developing since my late teens and I've generally had arthritis my entire life, since I was a child). It took a physician's assistant, who happened to see me one day when both of my doctors were on their third extended vacation of the quarter, to hear my plight, take my suggestion of gout seriously, and do the leg work, also revealing to me that "full test panels" don't include uric acid by default and that my doctors had been lying to me about their thoroughness. The assistant was also massively more knowledgeable about the disease, its history, the history of treatment, etc., and disease in general, than either of the two doctors running the clinic. Really opened my eyes.
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- jpadkins 2y agoGood time to remind people that right next to the town of Lyme CT is Plum Island Animal Disease Center, who happened to be researching tick based disease transmission when Lyme disease was first discovered (named after the town that had the first case). Crazy coincidence. https://www.defenseone.com/threats/2019/07/did-us-invent-lyme-disease-1960s-house-aims-find-out/158529/ https://www.defenseone.com/threats/2019/07/did-us-invent-lym...
- goda90 2y agoEvidence of bacterium that causes Lyme disease was also found in the 5000+ year old "Iceman" mummy found in the alps. People have described the disease in the 1700s, 1800s and in the 1900s prior to the outbreak in Lyme. Ticks preserved alongside their animal hosts in 1800s biologic samples also are found to have it. Genetic sequencing of different bacteria samples suggests a much older evolutionary tree than a few decades existence.
- jpadkins 2y agoBioweapon researchers use existing bacteria and virus to enhance them for weapon usage (I.e. coronavius gain of function research). So the fact that the bacterium previously existed in nature does not disprove that a version engineered to be spread via ticks was released.
- seattle_spring 2y agoNot really. Isn't the best place to open a center that "researches tick based disease transmission" somewhere that's close proximity to a hot-spot for ticks that transmit diseases?
- diamondfist25 2y agoHmm reminds me of the lab in Wuhan’s that’s doing weapons level bio research, and yet the virus came from a wet market
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- boplicity 2y agoHow strange that scientific research just like this has become extremely political. Case in point: The Trump administration has cut Northwestern off from over a quarter billion dollars in funding because of "anti-semitism." Note, that the vast majority of this money is for research just like the one linked in this article. Of course, people seem to be arguing about anti-semitism more than cutting off funding for research. But make no mistake: cutting off research funding is exactly what is happening. And that has practically nothing to do with antisemitism.
- stevenwoo 2y agoI was listening to an interview with Adrian Tchaikovsky the writer and his theory was conservatives have a love/hate relationship with sciences (and arts and academia). Paraphrasing from memory - if some thing or someone reinforces their belief system they love it, and they despise it when it contradicts them, this effort against science is to get a reality (scientific results) to agree with their preconceived notions. The bonus is suffocating dissent of any kind against those in power. The context was this was about his book about exobiology and authoritarian governments, Alien Clay. Anti-semitism is just the convenient cover, likewise pro Palestinian protesters are judged to be interfering with USA international relations (wrt Israel) by the Secretary of State under one clause of Immigration and Nationality Act that they use to justify legal immigrants to be kidnapped and deported.
- Quinner 2y agoYet the people that were apoplectic about Facebook voluntarily working with the government to combat covid misinformation are mysteriously silent.
- throw310822 2y agoThe government is cutting funding to universities to crush opposition to Israel, which they call derogatorily "antisemitism". It is plainly stated. The objective is shielding from criticism a foreign country. Damn deal with it instead of second and third guessing the motives of the government.
- whyenot 2y agoLyme disease does exist on the west coast, including in the Bay Area. A friend in Los Altos got Lyme disease from a tick in her yard. This is the worst time of year for ticks in the Bay Area. I've picked off over 100 ticks while doing field work in Henry Coe State Park. The one advantage we have on the west coast is that our ticks are larger and you usually notice when one starts crawling on your skin and especially when one bites you.
- ToDougie 2y agoA friend from Sacramento visited me in SoCal and brought his dog along. We hung out for a few days, and eventually I found a bullseye rash on my leg but no tick anywhere on my body. I went to urgent care and they recommended I see an infectious disease specialist, pronto -- and to start doxy that evening. My bloodwork came back with too few markers for them to call it a case of Lyme disease, but the specialist felt strongly that we made the right decision to use the antibiotics. Everyone always told me there is no Lyme disease in NorCal. Reading your comment helped me feel vindicated.
- heelix 2y agoOur kid got bit by a tick. Was lucky enough that it had the bulls eye pattern and was able to look it up. She got a crazy high temperature. Was crazy. A strong antibiotic cleared it up. I really wish there still was a vaccine available (for humans). I treat my pant legs and jacket sleeves with permethrin, which slowly kills the ticks - but does so usually before they would attempt to bite. One of the better camping tricks that I've applied to everyday life.
- Loughla 2y agoDuct tape inside out at the top of your socks under your pants does wonders as well. We couldn't find permethrin during COVID, so we did that. It worked mostly. The big bastards didn't get stuck, but they're easy to see. It was the little deer and seed ticks that got stuck. So that's a win.
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- chasil 2y ago"...doxycycline (and other generic antibiotics) wreak havoc on the microbiome, killing beneficial bacteria in the gut and causing troubling side effects..." Doxycycline is used as prophylaxis for a wide variety of pathogens; either the risk is tolerable with them, or the alarm is needlessly elevated. https://www.fitfortravel.nhs.uk/advice/malaria/doxycycline https://www.fitfortravel.nhs.uk/advice/malaria/doxycycline
- Loughla 2y agoTroubling side effects, from my experience being treated for Lyme with doxy is diarrhea for a while. I'll fucking take that all day long to get rid of Lyme. It sucks out loud. Every one of my joints was killing me. Even the useless little joints in my pinky toe.
- fdudjnr 2y agoI had a tick bite years about with bullseye and didn’t get treated. I’ve had Lyme disease-related symptoms ever since, but and assume from what I’ve read it’s too late to do anything about it. Would this treatment still help or am I still fucked?
- e40 2y agoIt is purely anecdotal but I read a post here years ago about someone that had a 10 year battle with Lyme disease, had gone through rounds of antibiotics and it always came back. He finally heard that maybe long fasts (2 weeks) might help, tried it and his symptoms went away. Just mentioning it because it seems relevant. I always thought should it happen to me, I would give a 2 week fast a try, under a doctor's supervision.
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- stinos 2y agoThe authors argue that piperacillin, which has already been FDA-approved as a safe treatment for pneumonia, could also be a candidate for preemptive interventions for those potentially exposed to Lyme (with a known deer tick bite). This strikes me as somehwat odd: as far as I'm aware there are worldwide issues with overuse of anitbiotics leading to various bacteria becoming resistent (and a quick serach seems to indicate this is also the case for piperacillin), but here they're saying that it would be ok for a probabaly large amount of people (as in: millions annualy?) to get antibiotics preemptively? Or is the reasoning that the does is low enough that it's fine? I mean, it's not uncommon for me and people I know to get a bite multiple times a year. It's better when taking precautions and know what to avoid, but still, sometimes you just have to be in tick-ridden areas and it's impractical to check yourself every hour.
- bflesch 2y agoThe main problem with antibiotic resistance is meat industry where thousands of pigs or cows or chicken are stuck in the same place and all get administered high dose antibiotics for duration of their life until some weeks before they get slaughtered and sold.
- diamondfist25 2y agoYears ago I suddenly had a swollen knee. So painful that I barely can walk. I dragged myself to Kaiser thinking that I torn something in my knee. Later on, it was diagnosed as arthritis Doctor said it was incurable, and gave me a list of meds where the side effects looked worse than the disease. I rejected it, and started examining every piece of data known to mankind. This led to me to variety of things. First was biological, a new tech drug that’s super expensive and I had to be on it for life. I was only 30, and no way I’m taking a drug for life at this age. What if I get laid off (or go travel) and can’t afford the 5k price tag per dose for my entire life? I then found other treatments, ones more natural but scorned on by the medical elite professionals. I went to Eastern Europe to do oxygen therapy. I came back home, and was well. I told the clinic that I’m healed now and don’t need to come back for the biologic anymore. The staff at the clinic were appalled — they never heard of a case of someone getting healed and weaning off their meds The medical system is here to squeeze everything from you. You are the top of the line revenue stream. Your health and wellbeing is in direct conflict of their objective function — make more money Never forget this
- qiine 2y ago> oxygen therapy. Like hyperbaric or just with a mask and a tank of o2 ?
- drooopy 2y agoI've recently became friends with an individual who suffers from lingering chronic effects from Lyme disease. I'm never walking out in the countryside again without knee-high boots, jeans tugged in my socks and the strongest bug repellent spray that money can buy.
- PetriCasserole 2y agoSimple way to detect if you're in an area with ticks: tape a white washcloth to a long stick and swish it back and forth around the ground. Check the cloth for ticks every so often and you'll find the tick "hotspots" and can avoid them. Permethrin-treated clothing is also fantastic for protecting against ticks - it's just highly toxic to water life and cats in liquid form.
- James_bread 2y agoI found this break down helpful from the study: https://danielcameronmd.com/could-piperacillin-be-the-lyme-disease-breakthrough-we-need/ https://danielcameronmd.com/could-piperacillin-be-the-lyme-d... 1. The Study Was in Mice, Not Humans 2. Mice Don’t Develop Chronic Symptoms 3. No Co-Infections 4. IV-Only Formulation Another promising and more tested treatment is that of doctor Richard I. Horowitz: https://sciprofiles.com/publication/view/834d15f5acf0268c9bcb0d4f35bc4e55 https://sciprofiles.com/publication/view/834d15f5acf0268c9bc... I have been suffering from Lyme disease for over 15 years but I just discovered it was Lyme 2 years ago. I had a negative test first but did not trust it and did a test at a specialised lab in Germany and that came back positive. From what I hear is that the normal antibodies test only works for 50%. Suffering from Lyme is brutal, and you look fine from the outside so it's hard for others to relate too, it attacks your whole system and if it's in your brain and nerve system it can make you feel heavily depressed and anxious like you have PTSD, this makes social events feel like a warzone. For a period of time I could bairly talk, I just could not find the words anymore. If friends or family of my get a tick bit I always suggest them to get antibotics even if you did not have a bullseye, better safe than sorry and the risk is of getting it is way greater than what the antibiotics will do to your body.
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- jpiech 2y agoLyme carditis - antibiotic instead of pacemaker https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9125511/ https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9125511/ https://journals.viamedica.pl/folia_cardiologica/article/view/42288 https://journals.viamedica.pl/folia_cardiologica/article/vie...