An interesting article about Lyme

[mojogal]

http://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/article/20120817/NEWS01/308170049/New-tick-borne-threat-emerges?odyssey=mod

I have heard this before from Dr Schaller, an author and researcher and LLMD, that if bitten in the US, if you have Lyme, then you have Bart's and Babs. The babs is often hard to diagnose, taking a friend of mine 6 yrs for her IgeneX Babs test to come back positive.
Terrible food for thought.  :(

[JackieCalifornia]

Totally agree!

(I remember when being 'cutting edge' sounded like a glamorous way to live ... but being on the cutting edge of Lyme, as a patient or as a doc, .... ugh!)

[mojogal]

My good friend sees him in person, which is how I was able to speak with him. He sent me his latest books on Bart's and babs and he admits what he thought 6 mos ago is wrong now. He is a big researcher so is constantly changing as he finds things out. Personally, I find him a bit strange but in my case he was correct on having both babs and Bart's.
You are correct though to be aware of kooks and to me it's all a crap shoot since nobody has a simple cure.

[JackieCalifornia]

Have you searched around on the net for information about Schaller?  I have no experience with him at all and have not read his books (tho I think he perhaps wrote a chapter in a couple of books I got when I first was diagnosed with Lyme), but I'd be skeptical.  I see his book on babesia sitting on my shelf across the room now.

For example, a flat statement that if you have Lyme you must also have babesia and bartonella seems a bit broad.

(I also just did a search for my own LLMD's name followed by the word 'quack' and it dredged up some ugly stuff too, so it's part of the drill .... but what's the saying, even a broken clock is right twice a day.)

The hardest part of finding a doc to treat and diagnose Lyme+ is that ALL Lyme docs are demonized by so-called mainstream medicine, but that doesn't mean that some of the Lyme docs aren't a bit over the edge for my personal taste.  

And it is a personal choice.  Do be careful out there and keep your antennae up.  If there were any one person who had the whole Lyme thing worked out, they'd be wealthy heroes, and we'd we out rollerskating.  

Just sayin.'