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Is it though? Or is it semantics and connotation/denotation masquerading as science? Are there different types of nausea? Or, instead, varying degrees and causes? Ultimately, isn't nausea a downstream effect? I worry the fatigue thing is a forever stretching, winding dead-end, deflecting our...

"Resting" in the conventional sense is not an appropriate word for us, as well. There is an implied sense of recovery in the word "rest". We don't recover; we just try to stop before we make ourselves worse. At best, we stop because we can do no more. But there is little in the way of recovery...

What's relapsed Lyme disease? 30,000+ cases of Lyme disease per year? It's widely accepted it's at least ten fold that figure. How odd.

We shouldn't lose sight of who it is that is whispering into Nath's ear.

And do what?

"post-infection" says it all. The implications don't need to be said.

What an odd way of practicing the scientific method. It's a model of assumptive reasoning. She says she has CFS patients. Boy, that's an interview I'd like to be part of. Better yet: Does she have any chronic Lyme patients? Any longstanding TBD patients? This model can only sustain...

I seem to recall reading that the leading cause of disability among veterinarians is bartonella.

I use to have bartonella. I still may even though I now test negative. But bart tests are notoriously bad, and only check for a couple strains anyway. Knowledgable infectious disease doctors navigate this issue by looking at vegf values. If you've elevated vegf, bartonella gets thrown into the...

@Hutan , that was very nice of you. I think Vegf may be relevant as a marker because of the cognitive decline many of us experience. So I think in many of us we will show low Vegf, which is fairly remarkable. It also would explain the hypoxia and low body temps (i'm often less than 97F). If we...

Sorry. I'm tired. This link is worrisome to me. I'm probably wrong. But who of us has tested our serum VEGF? I have over several years, off and on. What cursory searching I've found is that often it doesn't have a good outcome, at least with cognitive stuff. I test weird so of course I wonder...

Again, I am brought back to VEGF. Wish they were talking cognitive decline....

VEGF is going to end up being a thingee here...

Any one care to take a stab at figuring how low VEGF might play into this?

If it's removed through one's navel with a weird thingee, count me out. Neo, run!

But God spare us from the hubris of US cardiologists. ;)

Komaroff.

Acute Lyme? I'm just curious.

Of course, Lyme would be the exception if you accept what most infectious disease doctors embrace. Not only that, but in most cases one's Lyme antibodies should be IgG positive (since it usually takes longer than 30 days to get tested, at least historically). Interestingly, another exception...

I do. Conventional wisdom is that it's possible that you may always test positive - but that's just a theory. Conventional wisdom also says if you do test positive, your titres should decline. If you have multiple tests, and your titres decline then rise then decline then rise etc, that's...