Prognosis for Recovering From Lyme

    Lyme Disease is now thought to be the fastest growing infectious disease in the world having finally surpassed AIDS in the US. According to a Harvard medical study, there are believed to be at least 200,000 new cases each year in the U.S, and some experts think that as many as one in every 15 Americans is currently infected (20 million persons). The truly frightening aspect of this disease is that most victims never see the tick or the bulls-eye rash, and with an enormous capacity for "pushing through" pain, many dressage riders don't recognize the onset of symptoms (which for many feels like a flu), and ignore the sporadic pain that occurs as the spirochetes burrow deeper and deeper into the tissue causing joint pain (especially neck and back), abdominal pain, fatigue and a whole host of other symptoms that can mimic everything from MS, fibromyalgia, chronic-fatigue syndrome, and rheumatoid arthritis just to name a few.
   Lyme affects each person in a very unique way depending upon immune strength. Additionally, it can hide in a healthy person for years in a "cystic" form, and then become virulent at the first sign of weakness.  Online Pharmacy provides the access to health information and prescription medications.

    To make matters even worse, there is no reliable test available to determine the presence of Lyme in a person, you need a Lyme-literate doctors who can put the puzzling symptoms together with a full health history and a test for antibodies (the western blot) to determine the diagnosis and design a treatment protocol - which varies greatly from person to person.

    The CD-57 test, a major medical break-through in the treatment and diagnosis of Lyme, which measures a subset of killer cells (also used for AIDS and other immune system related illnesses), and will show abnormally low results for Lyme Disease (The range is from 60 to 360 with most people maintaining a level around 200. In fact, Dr. Burrascano, a Lyme Specialist who treated over 12 thousand Lyme cases before retiring, wanted to see the CD-57 over 200 before ending antibiotic treatment. He found that anything lower resulted in relapse of symptoms.)
    
    Prognosis for recovering from Lyme is better if the disease is caught and treated early on. However, arriving at a correct diagnosis is often complicated. One reason for this is Lyme symptoms vary from patient to patient, and may not appear immediately after infection. Lyme symptoms can be alarming or bizarre, they can include hallucinations and severe mood swings, and patients are frequently dismissed as psychotic or ignored by medical doctors who are dangerously uninformed about the increase of this endemic illness.

   Lyme disease patients are given standard antibiotics to kill the bacteria and address the co-infections which commonly accompany the illness. The duration, type of delivery and the antibiotic best suited for treatment are all points of controversy in the medical community.