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Chronic Lyme Disease
Lyme disease that isn’t treated long enough (or at all due to misdiagnosis) can turn into chronic Lyme, also know as Late Stage Lyme. The longer the Lyme bacteria stay around and reproduce, the more serious the complications, including immune system breakdown, additional infections, hormonal imbalance, and more. Under these circumstances, getting rid of chronic [...]
Continue reading...Medical Guidelines Based on Minimal Evidence
May 30, 2010
Thanks to the California Lyme Disease Association (CALDA) for this heads up. According to Lorraine Johnson, the CALDA Lyme Policy Wonk, two poster sessions at the IDSA annual meeting last fall stated that most of IDSA treatment guidelines, including those for Lyme Disease, are based mainly on opinion, not actual scientific evidence. Only 15% of [...]
Continue reading...IDSA Review Panel Upholds Lyme Treatment Guidelines
April 22, 2010
Looks like the battle for long-term Lyme treatment continues! Press Release April 22, 2010 SPECIAL REVIEW PANEL UNANIMOUSLY UPHOLDS LYME DISEASE TREATMENT GUIDELINES Short-term Antibiotics Proven to be Best Treatment for Patients Infectious Disease Society of America News Release Arlington, Virginia – A special Review Panel has unanimously agreed that no changes need be made [...]
Continue reading...IDSA Lyme Hearing Review
August 18, 2009
I spent the day July 30, 2009 glued to two computers on my desk. On one I watched the streamed IDSA hearing. On the other I tweeted my comments with other Twitter members with Lyme. It was an exhausting day but well worth the effort. In a nutshell, nine IDSA panelists, none of them among [...]
Continue reading...Getting Rid of Lyme
February 19, 2009
Early Stage Lyme If Lyme Disease is diagnosed within the first few weeks after infection and treated with antibiotics for long enough, it can frequently be cured. Unfortunately, there’s no general agreement on what “long enough” means. Most doctors prescribe an antibiotic for two to three weeks, four weeks tops. Often this is not enough. [...]
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August 4, 2010
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