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I am somewhat new to this site and am still very unfamiliar with lyme. I have known several individuals with lyme, since it is somewhat common in my area. They had symptoms of fatigue and joint pain (could hardly walk), took 21 days of doxy and were fine. Years later they are still fine, have had healthy children, and lyme is just a past memory. After reading the posts on this web-site, with all the antibiotic treatments and long-term pain, I was just wondering how long many of you had lyme before being correctly disgnosed. Was it the original misdiagnosis that made the disease now so hard to beat? The more I read about lyme, the more confused I get. Each web-site offers different information.
Posts: 16 | From Albany, NY | Registered: Dec 2009
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Yeah I think its the original misdiagnosis (or no diagnosis at all). Generally people think if you have no rash you can have no lyme .
I guess more acute cases are lucky because their grave symptoms prompt early treatment, for those whose symptoms are milder and/or they just tough trough it it becomes chronic
If you want get real information search for peer reviewed lyme papers majority of them document persistence and resistance of disseminated bacteria to treatment. Those which dont are usually of a very bad quality (and you can tell by reading them and just applying common sense and logic)
Posts: 856 | From MA | Registered: Jul 2009
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Many here never had the benefit of a rash and many never found the tick that bit them...so once it's had time to take hold, it's very hard to get rid of.
However, some people know right away that they have Lyme, get treated right away, and STILL are unable to recover quickly, if at all.
To complicate matters, many who are chronically ill are those who have what we call "coinfections." Other diseases that the tick gave them at the same time they gave them Lyme.
That makes it even harder to get well. Coinfections require different treatments and mixed with Lyme .. it's tough.
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