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Re:Fighting persistent Lyme disease symptoms by valec on Tuesday July 23, 2019 @03:27PM (#20509482)
Something about this smells fishy. Informing that [Chronic Lyme as a concept is dubious at best](https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/fake-diagnoses-not-fake-dis...), this sounds a lot like people worried about "whole-body Candida infections" or Wi-Fi poisoning or whatnot. Even if the symptoms are real, they could be a result from the nocebo effect or some other untreated illness.

All of this on top of medium blogs being able to be made by anybody sets off my pseudo-science alarms.

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Re:Fighting persistent Lyme disease symptoms by overthemoon on Tuesday July 23, 2019 @04:50PM (#20510089)
Ill-defined and/or poorly understood diseases like this are a magnet for cranks and grifters, from "Lyme-literate" doctors who don't take insurance and prescribe muscle relaxants and antibiotics until you run out of money or ignorant bloggers hawking fake science.

There's a lot of noise re "Chronic Lyme", whatever that might be. That being said, ~something~ is going on. My wife tested positive for Lyme, went on a round of antibiotics, and the symptoms didn't go away. She continues to suffer fatigue and chronic pain.

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Re:Fighting persistent Lyme disease symptoms by linuxftw on Wednesday July 24, 2019 @10:08PM (#20522011)
There's another tick-born illness that makes people allergic to mammal proteins. Have her abstain from all mammal products for some time to see if the situation improves.

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/alpha-gal-syn...

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Re:Fighting persistent Lyme disease symptoms by black6 on Tuesday July 23, 2019 @04:03PM (#20509762)
And he sure is branding himself well! All the pictures are of him looking pensive out in nature.
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Re:Fighting persistent Lyme disease symptoms by sound_and_form on Wednesday July 24, 2019 @01:44AM (#20512633)
Yeah, totally. Now that the instagram influencer market is fading, chronic disease is the new bandwagon pathway to internet success.
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