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The controversy continues whether Lyme disease can be cured. The accepted definition of cured is when the body is restored to health. Can this happen for Lyme patients? Yes. Does it mean the disease is cured? Not always.

The diagnosis of Lyme disease is clinical as well as scientific, especially if it is a late diagnosis and the disease is well disseminated throughout the body. Symptoms are especially important then. The most accurate laboratory tests, if correctly performed, will support the clinical diagnosis....most of the time.

There are many tick borne diseases and many strains of Lyme disease. Sometimes it takes months on antibiotic combinations to discover they are not being as effective as expected. This can be because they are not the best macro and micro antibiotic combination for the specific strain the patient has. Sometimes there are co-infections that are missed in the initial diagnosis. So the antibiotic treatment can be treating the Lyme but not the co-infection. Although we would like to think that once antibiotics are being taken the disease will be cured, that is often not the way things happen. Diagnosis and treatment is complicated.

When all the symptoms are gone is the disease gone? Not always. The spirochete can hide from antibiotics in cells and evade antibiotics to go into a dormant state. When this happens the patient will be free of symptoms and may remain symptom free for a long period of time. However, when the spirochete flares or moves out of the dormant stage a relapse will occur.

Many Lyme sufferers have taken proclaimed "miracle cures" or used herbs and potions and became symptom free, and credited them for curing Lyme disease. It's more likely that the spirochete coincidentally moved into a dormant stage. No "miracle cures" exist. Unscrupulous and greedy profiteers do exist.

Some Lyme patients will be on and off antibiotics for long periods of time for most of their life, especially those who had the disease for months or years before being diagnosed and beginning antibiotic treatment.

Yes, cures do happen when treatment is started shortly after infection. Prompt and correct antibiotic treatment for the length of time it takes to eliminate any symptoms of the disease and co-infection, if one, will most often kill the spirochetes. Timing is the crucial element.

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