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HI! I am trying to help a desperate friend locate a Lyme Literate Doctor in the Houston Texas Area....please help.
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I'm sorry to say Texas is not a good place for Lyme docs. Many Texans travel out of state. If your friend is able to travel out of state, please let me know and I will send you a message with a recommendation.
It is imperative that your friend sees a LLMD (Lyme literate MD). Best wishes to you and your friend.
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Your friend needs to be evaluated and treated by a Lyme-literate doctor (LLMD). Non LLMDs have no clue about this horrible disease or its complex treatment!
A LLMD is one who has treated Lyme disease and the co-infections which come with it for many years and has gotten patients well. A good one will follow Dr. B's Guidelines, the "gold standard" for Lyme treatment.
I don't know if your friend is able to travel, but please read the following about LLMDs and Texas which was recently posted about TX:
"Texas is not a great place to find a good Lyme doctor. Texas threatens its Lyme doctors and gets them to move or stop practicing without notice.
Then, if they start up again a year or so later, they do it to them again. So, there really are few Lyme doctors there and no top notch ones.
Because of the sorry state of affairs in Texas, many folks from Texas are coming to the D.C. area for testing and treatment for Lyme disease and it's co-infections.
At least half of all Lyme patients travel out of state for their care. The doc is the key to the diagnosis and for getting rid of this horrendous disease. I can't emphasize that enough-the doc is the key.
This is what I wrote to another Texan in Sept. Look at the following thread to see all of our discussion:
Read what other Texans wrote in this thread about trying to get proper care in Texas."
When your friend calls for an appointment, have him/her ask if they have any cancellations or a waiting list. Patients have been able to get in sooner by doing this.
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