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The problem with chronic lyme - the data for it is extremely weak, in the form of single case reports or small case series that have been poorly written. And getting in pubmed is not the problem - nowadays, you can cough onto a poster at a conference and it will show up. Furthermore, infectious disease docs are easy to convince if you have good data - it is one of the more experimentally accessible fields in medical science. When the spirochete for Lyme was isolated and cultured, and the initial antibiotic treatments proven, the field was quick to accept it.

That plus we see a steady stream of patients mistreated and told they have "chronic lyme" that end up in the hospital due to antibiotic complications, or because the "lyme doctor" told them to stop their other medications, gives a lot of us pause regarding anything mentioning "chronic lyme".