I'm 29. I was diagnosed with this wonderful disease back in 2008, about 5 months after my bite, and was given a months worth of doxycycline and sent on my way.
Having been relatively healthy all my life and knowing nothing about antibiotics, i didn't always take them twice a day, 12 hours apart, which I now know dramatically reduces their effectiveness.
I've been having chronic joint pain (shoulders, neck, ankles, knees) for the better part of a year, and i now suspect that LD is to blame. My "doctors" cant find anything wrong with me, and state that chronic LD is "too controversial" to treat, so i'd like to seek out an LLMD to confirm or deny the cause of my joint pain.
thanks in advance for your help!
Posted by hopingandpraying (Member # 9256) on :
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You need 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.
Unfortunately, LLMDs are far and few between. You need to go where they are.
Also most LLMDs do not accept insurance due to the politics surrounding this horrible disease. Read poster TF's explanation, "Why Lyme Doctors Don't Take Insurance":