Chronic Lyme

Lyme Disease: A Modern Tuskegee Experiment

Friday, February 11, 2011

Alix from SpiroChicks wrote a biting article for Technorati Women comparing the stonewalling and politics around Lyme Disease diagnosis and treatment to the Tuskegee Syphilis experiment of the mid 1900′s. In it she says: . . . If you had syphilis and your symptoms came back after standard treatment, or if you knew you’d contracted [...]

Chronic Lyme Disease

Wednesday, August 4, 2010

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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 [...]

IDSA Review Panel Upholds Lyme Treatment Guidelines

Thursday, April 22, 2010

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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 [...]

Getting Rid of Lyme Disease

Thursday, February 19, 2009

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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. [...]

Lyme Disease Symptoms

Wednesday, February 11, 2009

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The first symptom of Lyme disease (also called Lyme’s disease) for about 50% of people is a small, red bull’s-eye rash, called erythema migrans, at the site of an infected tick bite. The rash usually appears a week or two after a painless bite, but can appear within 3 to 30 days. It typically spreads [...]