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Originally Posted by jo_thorne
I don't know. I was tested for it a couple of times. The last time was after the diagnostic test was supposed to be "improved".
I had not read anything about Lyme disease for years until about a year ago when a friend of mine here developed an inflammatory joint condition and she and I discussed the possibility that she might have Lyme disease.
I was shocked at what I read about how the bacterium associated with Lyme disease can hide in the body and cause it to become a chronic condition. The friend eventually ended up being diagnosed with autoimmune arthritis and her symptoms responded very quickly to an anti-TNF medication.
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Don't take it from me, but there is so much controversy and confusion in Lyme testing, that a negative lab result might mean absolutely nothing.
A mainstream ID doc will tell you the chronic form does not even exist. There is unfathomable political/financial corruption behind all this. The subject of senate investigations and anti-trust lawsuits against the IDSA (they write the Lyme guidelines) in the US.
Yes the microbe can camouflage itself, change its form, and hide out in areas of the body where the immune sys has limited access (including nerve and brain tissue).
If conventional medicine treats the autoimmune arthritis and someone feels better, maybe that's all they need, I dunno. But without identifying the root cause, I would wonder whether a price will be paid later.
BTW, if you read up online, eventually you will start seeing connections between Lyme and lot of the neuro-degenerative disease like MS, ALS, Parkinsons, Alzheimers. Might seem like Lyme hysteria, but it's intriguing. Apparently both Michael J Fox and Linda Ronstadt were diagnosed and treated (briefly) for Lyme disease, then went on to develop Parkinson's.