Someone recently asked me to summarize why there are differing opinions concerning chronic Lyme disease. My answer�
1. Camp A bases their treatment guidelines on one study (Klempner) that used their own poor testing methods and failed to find what so many others have- the persistence of spirochetes after treatment. This failure, combined with the unsubstantiated opinions of a handful of institution based doctors who were determined by officials to be biased and riddled with conflicts of interest, makes up Camp A.
Camp B on the other hand has a variety of health care professionals who base their treatment recommendations on a vast amount of clinical experience and all of the science, including the 70 plus studies indicating persistence of spirochetes after treatment.
2. Goals of each side- Camp A�s desire to satisfy the insurance industry and develop profitable tests and vaccines. Camp B, who considers the patients health and welfare paramount.
3. Camp A has no patient support and is routinely discarded when their protocols fail to cure and the disease becomes chronic. Camp B is dedicated to trying to fix the growing number of patients destroyed by Camp A�s self-serving theories and practices.
Posted by hammer (Member # 17201) on :
Amen to that!!
Posted by Beth22 (Member # 30232) on :
and that... is why you are called an 'honored contributor' a perfect and succinct answer to the awful question.
Posted by Lymetoo (Member # 743) on :
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