Posted by bleauberry on August 31, 2009, at 21:24:57
In reply to Re: Do Antidepressants extend lifespan? » Garnet71, posted by yxibow on August 29, 2009, at 0:28:11
The CDC is a political beauracracy that is in the business of surveillance and monitoring.
They are not in the business of treating actual patients and thus have no direct experience or contact with them.
The clearly offer the disclaimer that their testing guidelines and treatments are for surveillance and monitoring purposes, not intended for clinical use.
Lyme is extremely complicated. We wish it would be so easy as to say take this ABX for 2 months and that's all we can do for you.
You think treating your depression is tricky? Lyme makes your depression look like child's play.
Anyone wishing to comment on the topic, one way or other, doesn't matter, should refrain from doing so until they know more than a cherry picked view of it.
> > "lyme,lyme,lyme"
> >
> > This comment is not directed to anyone in particular, but for the sake of increasing understanding...
> >
> > ...when I discovered one of the top medical schools has a research center dedicated to Lyme disease, it convinced me of the potential impact, importance, and credibility of the disease.
> >
> > http://www.columbia-lyme.org/research/cr_research.html
> >
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> Well the good old U of Chicago has published the IDSA guidlines for Lyme
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> Unfortunately I think its one of those journals one can't access from everywhere, but the citation:
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> Clinical Infectious Diseases 2006;43:10891134
> (c) 2006 by the Infectious Diseases Society of America. All rights reserved.
> 1058-4838/2006/4309-0001$15.00
> DOI: 10.1086/508667
>
> and the article is quite extensive.
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> But a quick read of it still notes that Lyme disease is not a condition that warrants long term use of antibiotics.
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> Now, people may have different opinions, that it is under reported, possibly, but while the number of reported cases has risen [from the CDC] (due to population increase and possibly increased reporting, one might surmise) is less than traffic fatalities, influenza deaths, and other conditions one can think of.
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> And these are reports, not deaths.
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> http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvbid/lyme/ld_UpClimbLymeDis.htm
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> The average cases is 9 per 100,000, with about 1/10,000 in the most probable areas, mainly New England states.
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>
> -- tidings
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