I was going over the IDSA guidelines on the treatment of Late Lyme, which is what most of us have brought to the table. Their arguement for 2-4 weeks of ABX is based on 5 or 6 studies done in the 80's or early 90's. The most striking thing about their reasoning is the almost complete omission of what patients report and the reliance instead on "objective symptoms", those that the doctor can see or measure easily. So out the window with pain and exhaustion (fatigue is a bad word) as well as neuro symptoms like tingling, numbness, or transient pain. (I think they all dream of a world in which patients are mutes.) Anyway, it seems to me that their obsession with "objective symptoms" and dismising of patient reports is a real opening for us in the Lyme Wars. People with any common sense at all will be appalled by this inhuman treatment. Legislators, reporters, the general public will really stunned to learn that their words to a doctor don't count any more. Seriously.
Posted by lou (Member # 81) on :
I have suspected for a while now that medicine in general relies too much on machines. If a machine doesn't say it, it doesn't exist.
Posted by Lymetoo (Member # 743) on :
quote:Originally posted by Greatcod: Legislators, reporters, the general public will really stunned to learn that their words to a doctor don't count any more. Seriously.
Pretty lousy doctoring!! Oh....I forgot. They don't "doctor"...they do "research."