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Warpy

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1. Ask for a Lyme titer, it can't hurt
Fri Jun 20, 2014, 05:13 PM
Jun 2014

The jury is out on whether chronic Lyme exists but is currently in favor of reinfection rather than having the nasty little spirochetes dodge the first round of antibiotics.

It takes three weeks of antibiotics to kill them. The good news is that they're vulnerable to old antibiotics like penicillin and erythromycin.

Fibro/cfids is a lousy diagnosis. However, they're getting on the right track for effective drugs as well as non drug treatment.

I had Lyme ages ago. I was "lucky" enough to get the bull's eye rash and a temp north of 103, so the diagnosis was easy and the treatment swift. I have no aftereffects that I know of, but with RA and fibro predating it, how could I tell?

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