Why some people with Lyme disease fail to recover after antibiotic treatment is a question that touches not only on them but on other commonly post-infectious illnesses like ME/CFS, FM and POTS.
A study may have identified why some people with Lyme disease stay ill after being treated
Further work is needed but an answer could be at hand. Not only did a recent study identify an immune hole which may be allowing the Lyme bacteria to proliferate during treatment, but it pointed to a new treatment option that no one had been considered before Plus it may have also laid the groundwork for a better diagnostic test.
The fact that all of this came from a small non-profit indicates that you don’t need to be big to potentially make a major difference in a nasty disease. Find out about all that and a similar study underway in ME/CFS in a Simmaron Research Foundation sponsored blog
Post Treatment Lyme Disease Unmasked? Immune Hole in the Illness Identified
Appreciate your amazing work Cort! Also thank you so much for live tweeting the Stanford Symposium this past week – it made me feel like I was right there!
I don’t have a Twitter account so apologies for coming to this platform to ask you this question, as I would have asked on there. As someone who’s only been in this field since 2017 (when my illness came on), I’m curious to hear your two cents after this last week on where you think research/collaboration for CFS/ME is today and how it compares to the last 10-20 years, since I value your opinion as someone who has been engaged in this field for a long time.
Do you sense we are close / have a high level of confidence progress is being made?
Thanks for any input Cort!
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