I reply to your review of Lyme Borreliosis-Biology, Epidemiology and Control by J.S. Gray et. al. It is not odd for such extensive work to be conducted on behalf of an easily cured disease?
And is it accurate to say "The reader interested in details of the clinical aspects of Lyme disease will not find them here." Did not Gray et al. sweep the clinical scene clean of refractory and chronic Lyme disease? That leaves only short term, IDSA type antibiotics, following a positive Western Blott.
Not many clinical aspects about that - but is that fair? After all, if Lyme disease is easily cured by short term antibiotics and B burgdorferi cannot survive short term treatments, what is to say about the clinic?
Yet my chronic Lyme disease responded to ongoing IV and oral antibiotics. Gray et al. portray me as a misfit and my physician as a quack.
But beore I beegan IV antibiotics in May 1999 my HMO had already treated me for CIDP. Despite 11 rounds plasmapheresis, three IV steroid doses and 11 more rounds IV immune globulin there was no lasting benefit. Once I began long term IV antibiotics (paying out of pocket) the CIDP treatments stopped. Coincidence, Ira?
Even now I need to pulse oral antibiotics. Without them I grow progressively weak, towards the point where I could qualify for IVIG.
Do you recommend that?
How do you wave accounts of ongoing antibiotics helping persons diagnoses as chronic Lyme?
And why do Gray et al. promote a vaccine for a disease easily cured with oral antibiotics?
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