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Message: [QUOTE="upstater, post: 3250375, member: 153"] Definitely not puberty. You have to understand that a lot of people don't come to Lyme testing immediately. This is a huge part of our family's problem. I wish people were more manic about Lyme, because then we would have had a test done much sooner... ...Instead of having her suffer for 3 years as we cycled through Orthopedics (multiple), Physiatrists (multiple), Rheumatologists (multiple), Infectious Disease people, Mitochondrial Disease, in addition to our pediatrician, pain specialists, PTs, acupuncturists, chiropractors, etc., some of them top research doctors in their fields, all of whom threw up their hands flummoxed by her condition. The Lyme test came very late. I can't speak from experience on the rest of the arguments made by Chronic Lyme people, but... their logic seems right to me. AFTER they took antibiotics, the symptoms persisted. And then, for some of the people with these chronic ailments, their condition improved after they found the right antibiotic to treat them. For some it took years. I found a recent article in the Atlantic of just such a person. How would anyone account for that? The explanation is that the new treatment must have eradicated some co-infection. And that's the problem. If you're only going to do an initial (maybe limited) antibiotic treatment, are you addressing the possible co-infections? This is why some doctors persist while others give up. I may be totally unfair to the medical community in saying this, but my experience with many doctors the last few years has made me suspicious of the entire community. We've seen the patient mills with our own eyes. If you don't want steroids or a cortisone shot, there's the door!!! That attitude sometimes permeates the offices of the doctors with the best reputation in an entire metropolitan region. Which doesn't even absolve the Lyme doctors who also charge an arm and a leg. One can't even imagine the fate of a poor person afflicted with this. Nonetheless, someone will need to explain to me how/why people recover with longer-term antibiotic treatment. In a recent Atlantic article on Lyme, Dr. Alan Steere who has denied Chronic Lyme allowed that the patient's recovery over a long-term of antibiotic treatment was likely the eradication of an unknown coinfection. [/QUOTE]

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