While I am not a medical doctor I do have a Ph.D. in Neuroscience. And I used to review the clinical studies that were used to make these recommendations (from PubMed, not page 6 of Google searches). First of all, the antibiotic regiments used in the studies were simplistic. But even then, some had no effects, but…

First, thank you for your helpful semantics lesson. I was certainly confused before that.

And they don’t have enough evidence. Even basic researchers who study the disease agree on this. I highly doubt you know more than me on this issue.

Chronic Lyme does exist - although some researchers are hell-bent on proving it doesn’t. They don’t know what actually causes “Post-Lyme Syndrome” yet they flat out reject the possibility of active infection even though Borrelia is know to hide and be difficult to detect. When I was on long-term antibiotic treatment I…

Lyme treatment is not easy at all. If you’ve had it untreated for a while it’s a long, difficult and expensive process

P.S. I missed that you do believe your friend is sick so sorry about that. It sounds like they very well could have Lyme though.

I don’t know her details. I do know the blog post linked to here has blantely incorrect information (like the rash is always a symptom, and stating one progression of the disease as the only progression). I also know tons of other blog posts stating definiteively that chronic lyme doesn’t exist. I see you are…

Because doctors won’t treat chronic lyme the way it needs to be treated, people are forced to try other things out of desperation. Please believe your friend.

When you chronically feel pretty horrible but are not bed bound you end up living your life while feeling horrible. I got most of my Ph.D. while recoving from Lyme, I’d be fully exhausted after 6 hours in lab. I had Lyme undiagnosed for years as it slowly got worse and worse and I just thought neck pain, brain fog,…

Lyme disease causes a lot of various symptoms, and they can be different for different people. I don’t watch the show so I don’t really know what’s she’s saying but the fact of having mutiple symptoms means nothing except that she might be very sick. It can mess with your joints, brain, muscles, skin, eyes, nerves…

I appreciate the even-handed approach of this post but this “Real Skeptics” blog is problematic, to put it mildly. First, SO MANY PEOPLE DO NOT GET THE RASH. This issue is so frustrating and dangerous. You can have Lyme having never seen any rash at all. If they are doing any in-depth information the blog should have…