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Re: hey bleauberry what about doxycycline? » Lamdage22

Posted by bleauberry on June 21, 2016, at 12:48:43

In reply to Re: hey bleauberry what about doxycycline?, posted by Lamdage22 on June 16, 2016, at 15:22:43

Easy answer. You cannot be sure. Docs told me that many times when patients reach remission, we never know for sure what the organism was - mutating all the time, new versions all the time, at least half a dozen other co-infections just as bad as the main infection.

It gets diagnosed wrong very often because it is a hard diagnosis to make. Lyme is the Great Deceiver. It looks like depression. Looks like schizophrenia. Anxiety. Looks like arthritis. Looks like Fibromyalgia. Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. Is even misdiagnosed as MS or Lupus. One patient may have 30+ symptoms while another feels fine except for unexplained nausea. Symptoms are all over the map from one person to the next. If you look at a full description of major depressive disorder, it fits perfectly with lyme as well...the mood thing, sleep thing, eating thing, sluggish thing, on and on...looks the same. If someone has been on psychiatric medicines for 10 years or more and not much improvement, if any, that is a big red flag to suspect infection.

It's a clinical diagnosis. Combination of clusters of symptoms, lab tests, experience, and instincts. The only lab test with decent accuracy though still makes mistakes is Western Blot by either Stonybrook University or IGenex Lab. Other labs doing the same test are not as reliable.

Vitamin D is almost always very low. It's an easy accurate lab test to find out. This test alone could be used to screen potential lyme patients.

CD57 is an immune marker, can be lab tested easily, which is often low in lyme.

The only solid diagnosis is to actually start treatment on a suspicion to see what happens. Distinct response patterns are diagnostic. For example commonly what happens is, very quickly with treatment, patient will say they feel better than they have felt in a long time - but it's a short honeymoon and soon ends in a crash worse than where started.

Once in a while we get lucky and the lab test actually comes back positive. The tests do work sometimes.

I was pretty sure a family member had lyme. They tried antibiotics for a couple weeks as a test. There was no reaction at all. No good reaction, no bad reaction, no nothing. That pretty much meant she doesn't have lyme. We've since narrowed it down to sugar issues and/or yeast issues. Possibly mercury issues from amalgams but we replaced those and think we got most of it cleaned out with alpha lipoic acid.


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