Comments on: Recurring Lyme Disease Rash Caused By Reinfection, Not Relapse http://kosu.org/2012/11/recurring-lyme-disease-rash-caused-by-reinfection-not-relapse/ The State's Public Radio Fri, 24 May 2013 17:14:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Carl Tuttle http://kosu.org/2012/11/recurring-lyme-disease-rash-caused-by-reinfection-not-relapse/comment-page-1/#comment-123046 Carl Tuttle Fri, 16 Nov 2012 13:05:42 +0000 http://kosu.org/?p=115963#comment-123046 These researchers continue to focus on the acute or early stage of the disease while patients who are the sickest went years or decades before obtaining a diagnosis. This is yet additional propaganda to deny and ignore the late stage Lyme epidemic seen all across this nation. I fall under the category of patients who had a “prolonged exposure to the organism prior to the initial diagnosis and antibiotic treatment of Lyme disease” as it took twelve years to obtain a diagnosis. Nadelman, Steere and Wormser should prove their theories that persistent infection does not exist by infecting themselves with the Borrelia spirochete (similar to Barry Marshall’s experiment) and forgo treatment for a year or so and then treat the infection following the recommended IDSA one size fits all protocol because after all, in their minds, this is little more than a nuisance disease. Sincerely, Carl Tuttle Hudson, NH 03051 Website: New Hampshire Lyme Misdiagnosis <a href="http://home.comcast.net/~runagain/site/?/home/" rel="nofollow">http://home.comcast.net/~runagain/site/?/home/</a> Letter to the Editor, The Lancet Infectious Diseases Published May 2012 <a href="http://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(12)70054-3/fulltext" rel="nofollow">http://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/...</a> These researchers continue to focus on the acute or early stage of the disease while patients who are the sickest went years or decades before obtaining a diagnosis.

This is yet additional propaganda to deny and ignore the late stage Lyme epidemic seen all across this nation.

I fall under the category of patients who had a “prolonged exposure to the organism prior to the initial diagnosis and antibiotic treatment of Lyme disease” as it took twelve years to obtain a diagnosis.

Nadelman, Steere and Wormser should prove their theories that persistent infection does not exist by infecting themselves with the Borrelia spirochete (similar to Barry Marshall’s experiment) and forgo treatment for a year or so and then treat the infection following the recommended IDSA one size fits all protocol because after all, in their minds, this is little more than a nuisance disease.

Sincerely,

Carl Tuttle
Hudson, NH 03051
Website: New Hampshire Lyme Misdiagnosis http://home.comcast.net/~runagain/site/?/home/

Letter to the Editor, The Lancet Infectious Diseases Published May 2012 http://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/…

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