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by zzz157 3672 days ago
Yes. 10/10 had it. Small sample size though, but, memory loss and dementia are late-stage symptoms of Lyme and associated coinfections. It makes a lot of sense. It seems like a simple study, to me, would be to take a bunch of early-stage Alzheimer's patients, give them Doxycycline/Tetracycline and observe them to see if they have a Jersch-Herxheimer reaction--https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jarisch%E2%80%93Herxheimer_rea...