https://www.lymedisease.org/why-abandon-neuro-lyme/

LYME SCI: Don’t medically abandon people with neurological Lyme

Lonnie Marcum

I sent the following written comments to the Tick-Borne Disease Working Group before its last meeting on December 2.

I’d like to thank the Tick-Borne Disease Working Group for your service. Having served on the Tick Biology, Ecology & Control Subcommittee, I appreciate how hard each of you has worked over the past two years on the 2020 Report to Congress. I respectfully submit the following critique of past NIH clinical trials and offer suggestions for the future.

In the 40+ years since Lyme disease was discovered, there have been four federally funded randomized placebo-controlled treatment trials of patients with persistent symptoms following standard treatment (Klempner 1&2 2001, Krupp 2003 and Fallon 2008). Despite the fact that two of these trials demonstrated some benefit, the IDSA concluded that there is no benefit to repeated antibiotic therapy.

In fact, the Krupp trial clearly demonstrated improvement in fatigue in the patients who received additional antibiotics. Dr. Brian Fallon corroborated this finding in his study, and also reported patients showed improvement in cognitive functioning, physical functioning and pain levels following additional antibiotic treatment.

Fallon study
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Dear RM Agents and Readers,

Antibiotics helped me to paint two different home exteriors the last few years. I wouldn't have been able to do that otherwise.

Many Blessings,
CrystalRiver