I'd be curious to know what you mean by dormant Lyme
The study talks about a cyst form that the spirochete goes into, presumably to evade attack but also makes it less active, its spreading less, later in disease. That's what I mean by it
cannot speak to where you've been looking at Lyme doctors. Regardless, I'd recommend focusing on your lab results so you're educated enough to weed through and past posers and incompetents.
As to this article, oh my. This is the tip of the iceberg. In the past ten to 15 years there's been a plethora of studies that similarly draw strikingly different conclusions from the cluster of circular reasoning studies that sprung up around the late 80's and early 90's.
any doctor that uses igenex testing or treats just based on symptoms which could be sequelae and not active infection, I dont trust. I think that approach is bs. Or if you're going to do it treat it as experimental, not as if you know for sure the disease is there based on simplistic reasoning and a hunch
I'm even more curious to know what you mean by post treatment Lyme.
That's easiest to answer. The official name for what people call chronic lyme, Post Treatment Lyme Disease Syndrome.
That's what the CDC calls it. The 1/5th or 1/4th of people that get the infection and get it treated in reasonable time and with enough antibiotics but have lingering problems
I feel fairly sure it causes immune changes and inflammation, and that environmental factors are a reason that the 1/4th that are sick are sick when many get the infection and are fine. I could be wrong, but a lot of things in my case are diagnosed, abnormal lab results and imaging that point to lyme and mold toxins causing mcas, inflammation that then both caused neuro symptoms and damaged joints, while also suppressing adaptive immunity and allowing for waves of viral infections which kept the progression of disease going further.
Now, sometimes a simple explanation is best, and so some lyme people tell me it's just lyme, but that isnt congruent with the facts I know yet.