LYME SCI: When brain inflammation persists after Lyme disease treatment
In a new study, researchers from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine have found evidence of chemical changes and widespread inflammation in the brains of patients with chronic symptoms following treatment for Lyme disease.
This Johns Hopkins (JH) study, published in Journal of Neuroinflammation, supports the experience of hundreds of thousands of patients who have tried for years to have their chronic symptoms of pain, sleep disturbance, fatigue, and cognitive impairment validated.
“What this study does is provide evidence that the brain fog in patients with post-treatment Lyme disease syndrome has a physiological basis and isn’t just psychosomatic or related to depression or anxiety,” says John Aucott, M.D., a senior author of the new paper and director of the Johns Hopkins Lyme Disease Research Center.
The fact is, too many patients with Lyme disease are left with chronic, debilitating symptoms following treatment for Lyme disease. In the nearly 40 years since the discovery of Lyme, no one has been able to determine why some patients get better with treatment and others remain ill.
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My Comment: My initial reaction is that it looks as if some of the "bad guys" might be aiming to redeem themselves. Let's hope so anyhow!
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I forgot to include the PubMed link to the abstract of this article which can be very useful for finding other related articles, as well as finding other articles by the same author: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30567544Posts: 4563 | From TX | Registered: Sep 2002
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