One of the stars of Real Housewives ( I’m not familiar with the show) is Yolanda Foster. Her name pops up a lot in my world because of her very public affliction with Lyme disease.
She has recently chronicled on her blog how bad her affliction is saying that after 3 years battling Lyme disease, she was only able to come back to 60 percent. And it has got worse since December. “I have lost the ability to read, write or even watch TV”, she describes.
One physician responded to Foster’s chronic Lyme disease by saying essentially there is no such thing. Dr. Russell Sanders (a pseudonym) writes in the Daily Beast, I have grave concerns that she’s getting treated for a condition that doesn’t really exist.
He goes on to write I am genuinely sorry for Foster, and the very last thing I have any intention of doing is make light of her pain. I wish her nothing but a full recovery.
However, there simply is no good evidence that chronic Lyme disease is an actual medical condition. As I have written before, while some patients may experience symptoms after appropriate treatment for Lyme, treatment for persistent or recurrent infection has no grounding in legitimate medical science. On this point the Centers for Disease Control, the National Institutes of Health, and the Infectious Diseases Society of America are all agreed.
Sanders lays out his case further in the article.
Lyme disease, and in particular chronic Lyme is and will remain a controversial topic with very opposing viewpoints and arguments and I suspect will be for a long time.
Are you planning on doing any investigating into the studies that prrove that the bacteria that cause lyme ( cousin syphyllis ) can and will cause chronic infection.this disease is real.
If it is not a medical condition, then what is it? The thousands of people afflicted with borrelia, vector borne virus…what is it? These people are not making this up?
You shouldn’t be allowed to call yourself a doctor.
I have had lyme 10 years and suffer chronic pain every docter in Bakersfield. CA has refused to see me I don’t even know where to go any more now my 16 year son sick test positive for lupus and waiting for results come back for Lyme .
Why is this “doctor” using a pseudonym?! It says:
Dr. Russell Sanders (a pseudonym)
That’s the weirdest thing I’ve ever read – to quote from a doctor who is making a medical statement but refuses to give his real name?! Give me a break!! I have suffered from Lyme myself for years and can tell you the devastating, crippling pain I had was so great, I can’t even describe it!! It took me MANY years to find a cure and I met many people along the way who also lost big parts of their lives from suffering from the horrific symptoms of Lyme!! There are people who have pace makers in their hearts bc Lyme affected their heart so badly! This “doctor” isn’t real – no real doctor talks this way – he’s a sham – no real doctor would use a pseudonym! This loser is a JOKE!!
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