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Message: <blockquote data-quote="sparetire" data-source="post: 178540" data-attributes="member: 1356">This is from the CDC website:[h=3]What is "chronic Lyme disease?" collapsed[/h]Lyme disease is an infection caused by the bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi. In the majority of cases, it is successfully treated with oral antibiotics. Physicians sometimes describe patients who have non-specific symptoms (like fatigue, pain, and joint and muscle aches) after the treatment of Lyme disease as having <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/lyme/postlds/index.html" target="_blank">post-treatment Lyme disease syndrome</a> (PTLDS) or post Lyme disease syndrome (PLDS).The term “chronic Lyme disease” (CLD) has been used to describe people with different illnesses. While the term is sometimes used to describe illness in patients with Lyme disease, in many occasions it has been used to describe symptoms in people who have no evidence of a current or past infection with B. burgdorferi (<a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2430045/" target="_blank">Marques, 2008</a>). Because of the confusion in how the term CLD is employed, experts in this field do not support its use (<a href="http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMra072023" target="_blank">Feder et al., 2007</a>).For more information, see the <a href="https://www.niaid.nih.gov/diseases-conditions/chronic-lyme-disease" target="_blank">National Institutes of Health — “Chronic Lyme Disease”</a>.I recognize this is a controversial topic, as many people feel they have chronic Lyme disease and will find doctors who tell them that they do. Some of these people have somatization disorders and giving them a diagnosis of chronic Lyme disease is a barrier to getting better. By no means am I saying this is true of you. If you suspect chronic Lyme disease, I encourage you to discuss it with an Infectious Disease specialist rather than one of the doctors who has made a niche for himself in giving people this diagnosis.</blockquote>

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