Sometimes what a person calls “chronic Lyme” isn’t actually anything, at least not anything pathological. I have very noticeable eye floaters (which any doctor will tell you are completely benign debris in the eye’s vitreous) and I have occasionally done a web search to learn more about how they arise, what they really look like, etc. But web searches for eye floaters these days tend to bring up a lot of people claiming that eye floaters are Lyme bacteria, or whatever, and having them is a sign of “chronic Lyme”.

In one forum thread I stumbled upon in the self-diagnosed “chronic Lyme“ community, people were claiming that eye floaters are "morgellons", i.e. the person must have chronic Lyme which in turn led to Morgellons syndrome. It was both of the imaginary diseases of the new millennium combined into one superstition!