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by ceejayoz
2517 days ago
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PTLDS is not entirely a rebrand of "chronic Lyme". It's specific to "people who had Lyme and still have issues". "Chronic Lyme" frequently involves people with no verifiable (or even likely) Lyme exposure. https://www.niaid.nih.gov/diseases-conditions/chronic-lyme-d... > In some patients, symptoms, such as fatigue, pain and joint and muscle aches, persist even after treatment, a condition termed “Post Treatment Lyme Disease Syndrome (PTLDS)”. > The term “chronic Lyme disease” (CLD) has been used to describe people with different illnesses. While the term is sometimes used to describe illness in patients with Lyme disease, it has also been used to describe symptoms in people who have no clinical or diagnostic evidence of a current or past infection with B. burgdorferi . Because of the confusion in how the term CLD is employed, and the lack of a clearly defined clinical definition, many experts in this field do not support its use. |
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