riversinger
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This is great info for newbies to take a look at! Bookmark Cheryl's pages and you will find yourself benefitting from all the work she has done.
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Cheryl, your website is the best, i always refer people to it. You have done an excellent job! Thank you for all the awesome info, as always! :-)
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Cheryl
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Cheryl's site is well organized and chock full of information. Take a minute to look around.
Click on "other tick diseases" on the left side, if you're looking for stuff about coinfections.
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Keebler
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Diagnosing Lyme Disease (&/or whatever else is going on)
Other tick-borne infections and other chronic stealth infections - as well as certain conditions that can hold us back - are discussed here, especially in TIMACA's thread.
See Burrascano's treatment guidelines here.
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Doxycyline (or many other antibiotics) can cause lyme to go into the "cyst" form within 20 minutes of taking the first dose.
Antibiotics are not effective against this form of lyme and it can go into "hiding" and come back later as chronic lyme, harder to treat.
For that reason, many LLMDs also use what is called a "cyst-buster" Rx such as Flagyl:
Infect Drug Resist. 2011;4:97-113. Epub 2011 May 3.
Evaluation of in-vitro antibiotic susceptibility of different morphological forms of Borrelia burgdorferi.
Excerpt:
. . . Conclusion
Antibiotics have varying effects on the different morphological forms of B. burgdorferi.
Persistence of viable organisms in round body forms and biofilm-like colonies may explain treatment failure and persistent symptoms following antibiotic therapy of Lyme disease. -
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Keebler
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- Yes, the LymeInfo / Cheryl's Links are excellent. Thanks. -
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