Chronic Lyme Disease – Another Negative Study

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https://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/chronic-lyme-disease-another-negative-study/

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If you look at the totality of scientific evidence, it does not support the existence of chronic Lyme disease or the approach of treating patients with long term or recurrent courses of antibiotics.

Patients who end up with this diagnosis tend to have non-specific symptoms that could have many causes, and lack a clinical picture specific to Lyme. They also lack serological proof of active Lyme (although may have had past Lyme). Most significantly, they do not respond to antibiotics in rigorous clinical trials.

Proponents of chronic Lyme essentially just dismiss the scientific evidence, and instead resort to anecdotal evidence of a subjective response to treatment in some patients.

As would be expected, when a group has a persistent belief that experts reject due to lack of scientific evidence, or even evidence of lack of efficacy, conspiracy theories proliferate. In this case the usual “Big Pharma” conspiracy won’t work, because the treatment being offered is pharmaceuticals. So a new enemy was invented, insurance companies. They were made the bogeyman for not wanting to pay for multiple courses of IV antibiotics.

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FYI.