TerryK
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Not sure what post you are talking about but you are very welcome if anything I posted was helpful.
Thanks for your comments. I'll have to take a closer look. At first I thought he appeared neutral but when I saw some of the text on his site I decided he wasn't. It didn't help when I saw that he was from Hopkins. Not to mention the IDSA lecture on his site from Auwaerter. http://www.lymemd.org/Auwaerter.pdf
hmmmm..... maybe it's true then, all patients who have late lyme but have not been treated will have positive antibodies? I thought the sickest patients sometimes don't make antibodies? I thought some patients can be seronegative despite having lyme disease. Is that wrong?
I tried watching a video on his site but my dogs unplugged my speakers and I couldn't get them to work. LOL His website locked up my computer when I tried to look at a few of his papers so I was reading only text from his website along with a paper from Auwaerter from his site.
I'm all for any researcher who is honestly looking for answers and is impartially evaluating the evidence. Even if he has info on his site that I don't think is correct, his site is valuable if it really is impartial.
Soooo, you are saying this guy is OK??
OH BTW - I'm not convinced that we do know the answers. We may know some of them but I'm pretty sure we don't know all the possible presentations of chronic lyme disease. I'm open to the possibility that some people may be experiencing symptoms that are not related to infection but something else. That's not to say that they don't have infection too but there is just so much that is unknown.... You are absolutely right, we need more neutral researchers.
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lymie_in_md
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Makes perfect sense TC -- neutral is the only way the current IDSA will bend. I'll give an analogy: Bill Clinton went to free the journalists -- if i were a betting man i would say the journalists were freed as part of Clinton going to Korea. Imagine Clinton going and they weren't released. So for the same reason the guilty in the IDSA need those who are neutral to release them from liability. The politics in this case is to indemnify the guilty as much as possible. Use neutrals to allow a re-positioning of the guidelines. In otherwords a trade-off, this is where we have to be careful.
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