Chronic Health Conditions Discussion and Support

It sometimes takes months of combinations of antibiotics to clear your body of the disease if you have had it for more than a few days. Lyme goes into cysts to evade what the CDC recommends or treatment and is a deep tissue disease.

By the time you test positive for Lyme it has already gone past the 3 week cure. Some people never test positive since, except for Igenex, the Lyme tests are made to detect a laboratory strain that is not found anywhere in the wild. If all your antibodies are bonding to the spirochetes you also will not test positive.

By CDC/FDA definition all Lyme titers need to do is pick up 39% of previously proven disease. They were made for surveillance, NOT diagnosis. Lyme Disease is a clinical diagnosis. The absolute worst test is the one that Mayo sells, the best is IGENX but it requires special handling and so costs more and insurance of course wants cheap. Many doctors do not know this.

Most people do better with supplemental magnesium and B12. Niacin if your cholesterol starts going up.

A lot of people get some symptom relieve with with daily saunas or hot tubs but it is not a cure.

Because of the controversy, frustratingly you will find doctors who feel it is their duty to "prove" you don't have Lyme and people "who think they have Lyme" are treated the same way the Connecticut teenager with the mitochondrial disease was treated in Massachusetts, delusional.