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suffering from 'brain fog' and joint pain subsequent to an LD infection, why wouldn't minocycline be therapeutic? And long term trials do show that patients felt better on antibiotics, only to relapse once they are withdrawn. What's the harm in treating a patient with an antibiotic that makes them feel better, and is safe to use for extended periods and coincidently will destroy any remaining spirochaetes that might be trying to evade destruction in areas of the body with low blood flow? This is a digression as well but it points out the glaring logical fallacy in insisting on very short courses of antibiotics to treat LD since as the length of treatment declines, the rate of incompletely treated patients will increase, but the key point is that there is no scientific basis for disallowing long term oral antibiotic treatment, on the basis of safety and tangentially there are a myriad of studies showing that certain antibiotics have anti-inflammatory and neuroprotective therapeutic properties in addition to their antimicrobial properties. The final point is that the growth in antibiotic resistance is mainly driven by the misuse and overuse of antibiotics in the global livestock industry, and forced animal consumption of antibiotics dwarfs the direct use of antibiotics in humans:
2473:. Perhaps these figures should be included in the article to adress the absolute safety of oral antibiotic therapy? Some US States have laws allowing physicians to treat LD via long term antibiotic therapy, in specific defiance of mainstream LD treatment protocols and the safety of such therapy needs to be addressed within this article. Long term treatment of LD with antibiotics is an established fact, as is the safety of long term oral treatment via antibiotics. The decision as to whether "...long-term antibiotic use for "chronic" Lyme disease is unacceptably unsafe..." is a decision that patients and doctors must make, based upon the available literature, rather than solely on the treatment opinions of any medical association. Again, this is a simple fact, established by law in many jurisdictions, and the article will be remiss if it does not address the issue of the long term safety of antibiotic therapy, especially since legal authority to prescribe long term therapy is part of the "controversy and politics" surrounding LD. Whether long term antibiotics should be used to treat LD and the merits or drawbacks to doing so is a separate issue.
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judgement of Drs, but only to present a neutrally written article for public consumption. Yet it would seem from your comments that you have a non-neutral POV. First off, there are no studies that show that LD patients are more likely to to suffer adverse effects from long term antibiotic therapy than the general population - if such studies existed they would be presented, but it would also be simply amazing and would indicate a severe underlying condition unique to chronic lyme sufferers. The rate of serious adverse effects with the most common antibiotics used are so low, that the patient literally has a much higher chance of dying while driving to see the physician than having a severe adverse event. "Do no harm" is the first rule in medical practise and even if giving antibiotics is no better than placebo in terms of treatment effect, they are also no less safe than placebo, since the rate of adverse events is so low. This is the key point that needs to be addressed since even if oral antibiotics don't work, they are also very "safe", and trying to argue otherwise is complete nonsense, with no scientific validity.
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the PCR test was done on this case from MGH. I point this out to underscore the reality that guidelines are not laws, and physician judgment is given wide latitude. In particularly severe/rapidly progressive cases, the guidelines need not be followed if the physician is willing to defend their actions before peers. In the case you're highlighting, the PCR was clearly sent even though the link you provide indicates no mechanism for doing so. Whether earlier treatment would have improved the outcome in this specific case is purely a subject for speculation (therefore it does not belong here), but the guidelines would not prevent a physician at MGH from prescribing Lyme-specific treatment as soon as the suspicion was high, particularly if that decision were made by consensus (this won't protect an individual practitioner who consistently violates clear guidelines despite warnings from a medical board). It really is a pleasure chatting with you - but I have a sense we should be mindful of the setting in which this discussion is occurring, and should stick to the subject, which is the article. --
360:"Studies have shown that most patients diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease either have no objective evidence of previous or current infection with Borrelia burgdorferi or are patients who should be classified as having post-Lyme disease syndrome, which is defined as continuing or relapsing nonspecific symptoms (such as fatigue, musculoskeletal pain, and cognitive complaints) in a patient previously treated for Lyme disease. Despite extensive study, there is currently no clear evidence that post-Lyme disease syndrome is caused by persistent infection with B burgdorferi. Four randomized placebo-controlled studies have shown that antibiotic therapy offers no sustained benefit to patients who have post-Lyme disease syndrome. These studies also showed a substantial placebo effect and a significant risk of treatment-related adverse events. Further research to elucidate the mechanisms underlying persistent symptoms after Lyme disease and controlled trials of new approaches to the treatment and management of these patients are needed."
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persistent infection, and the mechanism is unknown. Both agree that it should not be treated with antibiotics, in the interests of antibiotic stewardship. Small randomized, double-blinded studies showed that 3 months of antibiotics do not cure CLD or PLDS (although they disagree as to whether it temporarily alleviates the symptoms). The mainstream cites this as evidence that persistent infection does not occur. Because late LD does not usually give rise to spirochetemia in the blood, but rather is characterized by widely dispersed small colonies of spirochetes in various solid tissues, there is no way to biopsy directly for the presence of spirochetes in late LD (or CLD or PLDS), and the maintenance of IgM and IgG antibodies in the serum is taken to be a result of the prior infection. Spirochetes can be found in tissues of antibiotic-treated animals, but this is said to be irrelevant to the human case due to differences in pharmacodynamics and other such problems.
2772:"Effect of Borrelia burgdorferi genotype on the sensitivity of C6 and 2-tier testing in North American patients with culture-confirmed Lyme disease.". Clin Infect Dis. 47 (7): 910ā914. The trouble is, I've skimmed the paper, and I don't actually see any clear statement of a region-specific lack of sensitivity in ELISA testing. If there are other sources, I'd love to see them... in fact, if this is true, it could be important in the life of someone I know very well. I just can't find a clear source either way for this statement. If the current citation does have a statement to this effect, could someone please point me to it? It's possible I just missed it, after all.
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scientific POV as found in RS. We are violating NPOV by giving more weight to unscientific opinions not found in reliable sources, but only in unreliable sources. This principle is embodied in our MEDRS policy, where we give mainstream medical sources priority. To repeatedly use a misleading term without putting it in quotes is to give the quacks and frauds ammunition which they will use to defraud patients. We should use the terms used in RS, and when not doing so it should be made clear we aren't doing so. Maybe we should simply remove most of those instances, and when we are forced to use the phrase, to use words to make it clear, rather than quotes alone. --
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true believers in the idea that top authorities can be implicitly trusted to provide the best that science has to offer, so they donāt think their stance can be harmful to patients. And I think most medical authorities mean well; they just haven't been adequately trained in what good scientific thinking requires, beyond a plausible story and a knack for politics. That's just my opinion, of courseĀ ;-) The idea promoted by
Wormser et al. that late Lyme disease is now rare, due to most of the cases being caught in the early stages, must be soothing, especially to a conscious or unconscious Bayesian who hasnāt noticed the
1641:. If it were politically possible to edit the article to reflect the controversial status of the two-tier-test as a diagnostic requirement, a source that should be acceptable to WP:MED would be the IDSA guidelines hearings report. The review panel (seven IDSA doctors and one veterinarian) voted 4-4, half for and half against, retaining the Executive Statement at the beginning of the IDSA guidelines in its present form. This is the section of the guidelines which calls for a positive result on standardized serological testing (i.e. the two-tier test) as a requirement for diagnosing LD in the absence of EM.
2616:(which, incidentally, is a 14-year-old conference presentation, not a regular journal article) explicitly states that randomized, controlled trials need to be performed to definitively evaluate the safety and efficacy of long-term antibiotic therapy. Such trials were, of course, subsequently performed, and the negative results of these trials heavily influenced the positions of the IDSA, AAN, CDC, etc. It seems a bit misleading (at best) to cite the observational 1997 conference presentation without acknowledging the subsequent randomized, controlled trials which it called for.
2401:, under these conditions. On the other hand, the areas of the article (and of the LD field) where dissenters are acknowledged to exist, even when they are disparaged, may be useful in alerting readers that there is some kind of problem with the status quo, thus motivating them to investigate further. The templates at the top of the talk page help in this regard, particularly the sarcastic one about the "manifold evils of ..."). So, proceed as you think best; just thought I'd put in my two cents worth. My best regards to all involved in working on this difficult article,
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operate well outside those boundaries, as I'm sure you are aware. Comparing the two situations makes sense only as a rhetorical, point-scoring gesture, not as serious commentary. Additionally, you're playing fast and loose with the PCR criteria (as Scray mentions below), and you're ignoring the finding that actually clinched the diagnosis of neuroborreliosis: the production of antibody in the cerebrospinal fluid, which was present in this case and is specifically highlighted in the guidelines. So I think you're off-base in trying to cite this case to make your point.
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minority view. A description of the skirmishes that have characterized the debate should be summarized in a cool and impartial tone. As for the political action, if the reader thinks itās a terrible thing, or a good thing, or simply an interesting phenomenon, for people to demonstrate or take political action to ensure access to tests and treatment that are scientifically reasonable but not condoned by the dominant view, thatās his call. Just say what has happened. It's not helpful to use the article to vent your, or the medical community's, irritation about it.
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why they didn't say what antibiotics the primary care prescribed for the presumed "virus"? It's a striking omission from the case history. I'd be willing to bet it was 200 mg/day doxycycline for 2 weeks, the standard treatment for early Lyme disease, which he would probably suspect from the symptoms and history, as he's in an endemic area, but would not dare to diagnose. As it's written, it makes the primary care doctor look like a fool (prescribing antibiotics for a virus), but presumably that's preferable to being seen as a "criminal".
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Lyme infection. It's a bit messy (as is everything else around chronic Lyme), because both sides admit that symptoms can persist without infection. The main disagreement is about whether, in some cases, the infection itself will persist after the recommended treatment, which has huge implications with regards to heavy, long-term antibiotic treatment. For the record, I support the ILADS position and believe chronic Lyme, with ongoing Bb infection, occurs in a minority of Lyme patients. But I don't want to get in a flame war over it.
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matter to WP:MEDRS. Basically, if the top authorities on a subject says the ELISA is very sensitive, and the
Western blot should only be performed after a positive ELISA, then no amount of published data showing the contrary could change the WP:MED take on the subject. This is explicitly laid out in WP:MEDRS; secondary sources (review articles) and tertiary sources (textbooks) are privileged over primary sources (the ones with the actual data). The ELISA issue has been discussed before on the LD talk, for example,
898:): "Amplification of B. burgdorferi DNA in CSF using PCR by a laboratory with excellent quality control can also be useful , but few laboratories are capable of accurately performing this test. In the absence of erythema migrans, neurologic manifestations are too nonspecific to warrant a purely clinical diagnosis; laboratory support for the diagnosis is required." According to the report you cited, when laboratory evidence (including PCR) was available, the diagnosis was made and treatment was started.
1866:. Take a look at how that argument came out. Thatās why I didnāt spend time collecting the sources Weintraub used. They would be disallowed, first, because a recognized medical authority like one of the guideline authors, will always trump a dissenting journalist as a āreliable sourceā, regardless of the biological facts. And second, because if we cite the primary sources Weintraub used, theyāll be considered invalid by WP:MEDRS, since they disagree with the currently dominant paradigm.
1983:, to get up to speed on the subject, as youāve already told me you donāt have anything to do with LD professionally. You havenāt responded yet, but weāve had breaks in our conversations before, and Iām still patiently waiting. My offer still stands to help you and your colleagues understand why it's not unreasonable to think that another diagnostic heuristic might be a better choice, based on current mainstream science. The politics is the result of scientific problems, not vice versa.
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sides, and
Knowledge (XXG) should not aim persuade someone to developing a "right and wrong" mentality. I understand Knowledge (XXG) follows the mainstream thought and therefore there should be more emphasis on the mainstream views, but it does look to the reader as if these views are the ones that Knowledge (XXG) promotes. The opposing views section should be more condensed, and only represent a small part of the article. Does anybody else agree? Or will this not work?
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to prosecution by their state medical boards, which is why four endemic states have passed āphysician protection billsā. As MastCell rightly says, a doctor or a team can get away with it if they do it rarely, but since the disease isnāt rare in the Boston area, most doctors have responded to the situation by simply believing that the guidelines must be accurate or they wouldnāt exist, and therefore that they are acting responsibly by following them to the letter.
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delay in getting these results (day 11 of hospitalization), which were the first guideline-acceptable āobjective evidenceā that the patient had LD (the previous tests are all technically considered insufficient, as I said above.) It need hardly be said that itās a good thing the guidelines were broken to start treatment on day 5, a day after dyspnea and dysarthria developed. This is the kind of dilemma that the guidelines provoke, rather than help to solve.
2253:. "However, blah blah", the sentence is clearly intended to oppose the position of the IDSA, AAN, CDC, and NIH. But that was clearly not the intention of the authors of the cited studies. Antibiotic safety is not an absolute matter; it's a cost benefit analysis, and the NIH and others are quite clearly saying in their citations that the potential benefit is not worth the potential cost. If you want to suggest that the NIH, CDC, AAN, and IDSA are
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means. The whole idea of two-tiered testing is that confirmatory
Western blotting is performed only in patients with indeterminate (or positive) ELISA. If a patient has a negative result on ELISA, then Western blotting shouldn't even be performed. This is central to the concept of two-tiered testing (as in the serologic diagnosis of HIV), so I'm not sure what the book means when it describes people with negative ELISA but positive Westerns.
2366:. The preferred solution to controversy seems to be, to identify the more politically powerful side, and then follow it and have faith that it is scientifically correct. This faith makes it more powerful, and so on ad infinitum. A situation where big influential organizations like those mentioned by Someguy, are demonstrably wrong, is thought to be practically impossible, and hence subject to
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what might be wrong with the patient. This causes misdiagnosis and mistreatment. Iām not sure why that is so hard to understand. Could you explain to me the logic behind your position? Perhaps it would be helpful to explain physiciansā needs first, and then to consider how these might differ in some ways from the needs of the patients, and what might be done to reconcile them. Best regards,
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citations showing that long term treatment with doxycycline and minocycline is common practice for the treatment of adult acne, and that it is considered safe. This doesn't imply that long term mino/doxycycline therapy should or should not be used to treat LD, only that the risks of doing so are extremely low. In any event, you should have started this discussion prior to your edits.
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confirmed. If you still don't think the source is adequate, then I urge you to look around for a better source; presumably being a doctor, you have quicker access to medical sources than I do. If
Weintraub's statement about the testing is correct, then I'd hope you would agree this is something that ought to be mentioned in this wikipedia article, if it can be adequately sourced.
1512:); I believe all are freely available, and they outline two-tiered testing (specifically, that patients with a negative ELISA generally don't go on to have Western blotting performed). In light of that, I'm not sure how to interpret the book's claim about patients with negative ELISA and positive Western blots; such a combination is outside the standard two-tier testing approach.
2566:. The State of Connecticut is on very solid ground in granting Drs the right to prescribe long term antibiotic therapy, since the science and statistics of long term therapy is well known. Again, it is clearly misleading for this article to remove all references to long term antibiotic safety statistics, from large scale databases, and it clearly violates a NPOV.
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Your edit implied that a negative Lyme ELISA was likely meaningless. I don't think the source you cited is sufficient to support that edit, especially in light of scholarly sources which say essentially the opposite. It sounds like
Weintraub doesn't directly cite/identify the "Stony Brook researchers" or their published work - is that an accurate statement?
1125:. But specifically, my comment was made to correct the impression that the controversy is only about chronic LD, as Brangifer said, above, in his (implemented) suggestion to subsume the controversy under the chronic LD section. Itās broader than that, as well as clinically relevant, as this case study suggests. Since the article falls under
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impressionable trainees against it, and toward another field where their science won't earn them death threats if it proves inconsistent with the preconceived ideas of an activist group. As we've discussed elsewhere, the current state of affairs also attracts every manner of snake-oil salesman ready to step into the breach. But I digress.
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minor split between Steere and some other members of the field. Steere, at the top of the academic pyramid due to his early study of the disease, suggested the hypothesis that PLDS was an autoimmune phenomenon, perhaps related to molecular mimickry by OspA. OspA was the antigen used for the vaccine
Lymerix, for which Steere
1736:, both you and another editor made the point that āguidelines are just guidelinesā, that itās not appropriate to say that guidelines ārequireā anything, because physicians have autonomy in how they treat patients. There seems to be a misunderstanding of this point, on the part of the IDSA Lyme guidelinesā authors.
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treat me with tetracycline "until symptoms resolve", you would (using this paper's logic) conclude that tetracycline heals ankle sprains. The success rate of any treatment is going to be high if it's continued "until symptoms resolve", and if any resolution of symptoms is attributed to the intervention.
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reading of primary papers.) Please read the threads immediately above this one. Iāve had limited success in my attempts to get past editor(s) of the article to read research papers critically and in detail, including those papers fundamental to mainstream medical practice. Given that history, I think
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I'm a bit confused by the citation for this statement: "ELISA testing, however, is typically done against region-specific epitopes, and may report a false negative if the patient has been infected with
Borrelia from another region than that in which the patient is tested." It's currently citation 87,
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The underlying point is that we need to accurately convey the state of knowledge in the field. Right now, major medical bodies feel that long-term antibiotic use for "chronic" Lyme disease is unacceptably unsafe. Trying to "rebut" those expert bodies by selecting and juxtaposing individual studies is
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is acceptably safe for treating someone with testicular cancer, but absolutely unsafe to treat, say, acne. Since long-term antibiotic therapy has no proven efficacy in "chronic" Lyme disease, even rare side effects make it unacceptably unsafe. Moreover, the major concern is not necessarily individual
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Thus the transition from early or late LD, to CLD or PLDS, is currently defined solely by whether the patient has been treated with the recommended course of antibiotics. If he hasnāt yet, itās LD; once he has been treated, itās PLDS. So I wouldnāt say itās a separate entity. Iāll provide refs if you
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Critics of course noted that the CDC made no attempt to look at deaths that may have been from Lyme but weren't recognized as such. Since so much effort was then placed on diagnosing the condition as anything but Lyme, one would have thought that an honest effort to do so would have been made by the
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With regard to PCR, I guess the sentences you quoted from the guidelines would seem not to preclude the use of PCR results obtained from the unspecified āfew laboratoriesā that are thought to be accurate. In practice, PCR results have often been discounted in the literature unless they are performed,
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Technically, the patient had "no objective evidence of ever having had Lyme disease" at any time in the presented case. The patient didn't have the rash "required" for clinical diagnosis of Lyme disease. Positive PCR evidence is disallowed due to an allegedly unacceptable rate of false positives. The
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I'll agree with the deletion of the quotes based upon consensus. As one who may well have chronic lyme, I have a bit of conflict of interest. On a scientific basis, the quotes are justified, as there is NO consensus in medicine on treatment, diagnosis or even IF chronic lyme exists, regardless of the
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I'm a little late. But I looked over over the article once more and in "Post-Lyme disease symptoms and chronic Lyme disease" and "Controversy and politics" there are multiple instances of "chronic Lyme
Disease" in quotes. I think using quotes may be acceptable for defining what the term is, but the I
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Well, the consensus seems to be to leave them out, except the couple of instances where they are necessary, so I'm leaving it as is. As to your suggestion, we've discussed this before quite extensively, IIRC, and determined that it would be a violation of our NPOV policy and an improper fork article.
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The problem is that the phrase "chronic lyme disease" is not a neutral phrase, but one that is widely used (often criminally) as a quack diagnosis in non-RS, and by using the phrase without signalling that it's not a legitimate phrase, we're violating the weight we are supposed to give the mainstream
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A new primary reference could be discussed on the article talk page, if WP:MED editors are willing to discuss it. If they aren't, then it violates the talk page guideline that the subject of the article should not be discussed on the article talk page. (No offense meant to WP:MED: I understand that
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in which one, or a group of, dissenting doctors makes your point about the relative safety of oral antibiotics compared to the dangers of undertreated Lyme disease, it will either be disallowed entirely, or call forth additional citations from, um, higher ranking sources, saying that the dissenters
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You should be aware that a) I don't treat Lyme disease and have no special disease-related knowledge or expertise, and b) I'm not sure I'm representative of "how doctors think". In my experience, there is no one way that doctors "think". I understand the human tendency to seek heroes and villains in
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Your first and third comments bear on whether following the guidelines is truly optional, or mandated (in the de facto sense). I hope guidelines are optional in other diseases, but unfortunately this isnāt the case in Lyme disease (LD). Doctors who break with the guidelines multiple times are liable
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The priceless moment in that case report occurs when the diagnosis of neoplastic meningitis is considered: "An important part of our evaluation of this patient was review of the cerebrospinal fluid findings with a pathologist. This consultation occurred urgently on a Friday afternoon in the summer."
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I can assure you that no physician would ever be disciplined by a medical board for treating a critically ill, hospitalized patient with a short course of ceftriaxone for a suspected diagnosis of neuroborreliosis, even if the guidelines were not met to the T. The physicians who have been disciplined
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be reverted? I think not. It's a definite improvement and I'm not going through every instance and restoring the scare quotes. Restoring what was there would definitely be a negative for the article by restoring OR. I have every single policy behind that edit. I hadn't seen MastCell's comment, but I
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That's not how wikipedia is supposed to work and the policy is for disputed articles to remain as is until consensus. However, to return to the topic of antibiotic safety, there are a number of sources that discuss the use of long term antibiotic therapy for LD, with tetracycline class antibiotics,
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At this point, I see 3 editors noting they think this is inappropriate, with a 4th also noting significant OR problems here. Consensus appears to be coalescing against this material, and should stay out until you such time as consensus is reached it is appropriate. That bad material has stayed in
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There is clearly a group of people who are so invested in a particular view of this issue that they're willing to threaten death to scientists whose work doesn't agree with their preconceived notions. That's important context for anyone thinking about editing a
Knowledge (XXG) article on the topic,
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No hard feelings, I'm looking forward to continuing our discussion of the science. I'll be offline for about a week - going to visit family. Maybe I'll see some new birds. I've been watching a cedar waxwing incubating her eggs. Come to think of it, they'll probably hatch while I'm away - wah. But I
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If, as you say, your concern is all about the best science currently available, why are you ignoring the science? itās a bit absurd for you to accuse others of āvilificationā and āpoliticizationā, merely for looking carefully at the published research and pointing out its flaws. Thatās done all the
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to examine the official story ā their training is to learn the story, and then to repeat it, defend it, and follow it in practice. You can see how this system evolved ā if all the doctors say the same thing, then anyone who conforms isnāt accountable for bad results. As for the authorities, there's
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In general terms, I think that when we discuss the operating characteristics of a diagnostic test, we should reference medical sources rather than a popular-press book for specifics, regardless of how well the popular-press book is reviewed. In specific terms, I'm not sure what the text in question
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Hi, MastCell. Hope you had a nice Thanksgiving (if youāre in the US, that is). Regarding your first comment above, I read the talk page guidelines and some essays for help responding, and I think Iād better just swim away. No hard feelings. I think I addressed your factual concerns in my answers to
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Therefore, unless that particular expert were called in to override the rules (which he originated), any doctor who treated the patient for Lyme disease would be dangerously liable to ridicule or prosecution by his peers, even in the presence of all the test results reported. Incidentally, I wonder
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There is at least one large study (Seltzer, Gerber, et al, JAMA 283:609-16 2000) which showed no difference in the incidence of fatigue and non-specific pain in populations with and without documented Lyme disease history. This is not definitive, but it certainly raises the question as to whether
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How about renaming the paragraph into something like "late complications of effectively treated lyme disease"Ā ? I would donate a lead/overview for that. While "post lyme" and "chronic lyme" are widely used neither seems to accurately express the prevailing uncertainty about exact mechanism(s). Also
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If it has gotten you interested in post-Lyme disease syndrome (PLDS) and chronic Lyme disease (CLD), feel free to drop me a note on my talk page, or ask me to do it here, and I'll summarize the definitions and issues. There are some subtleties about how each term has been used in the past, and how
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the authors explicitly use medical databases to examine the rate of adverse events with doxycycline (and others) to determine its safety in potentially treating a rare disease (anthrax). The problem of synthesis does arise when it is implied that long term oral antibiotic therapy creates a greater
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As to why this is, I'll say it again, another way, as I think one needs to understand the politics in order to edit this article effectively. The bottom line is, WP:MED's current membership will not support edits that document credible challenges to the "mainstream view", even in the "Controversy"
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I'm sorry, but you're wrong. This section of the article deals with "Controversy and politics" and part of the controversy is the implied suggestion that long term treatment with antibiotics is unsafe, when clearly there are differing opinions within the medical community about this, especially in
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I guess a certain amount of undiagnosed, untreated late Lyme disease is considered to be a form of negligible collateral damage, subsidiary to the higher goal of asserting the correctness of whatever paradigm is dominant in the field. (Sorry if that sounds harsh ā I do get it that most doctors are
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It's not really necessary to lecture me about responsible medical coverage; I appreciate its importance as much as anyone. There is an actual medical consensus on how to perform two-tier testing for Lyme disease, as one can verify through the sources I presented above (the ACP, the CDC, the IDSA).
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The original term āchronic LDā was later disowned by the mainstream, because of its connotations of persistent infection, which the mainstream believes canāt exist. They coined the term āpost-LD syndromeā, which implied that the LD infection was over, though the symptoms were not. Then there was a
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Well, I wouldnāt say itās a separate entity. When LD is undiagnosed or undertreated, it becomes ālate Lyme diseaseā. Late LD is harder to cure due to multiple sites of dissemination throughout the body in tissues that are less easily permeated by antibiotics, such as collagen and the brain. In the
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And you've misread the comment. They didn't claim that the CDC admitted that chronic Lyme exists, just that "the chronic lyme disease condition can exist," which is true. The CDC admits that Lyme symptoms can persist after treatment -- they just don't believe that these symptoms are due to ongoing
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I'll assume that we're here to understand the tone of the field, so comments on specific institutions are just to inform our edits to the article overall (else this does not belong on this talk page). Your statements regarding the MGH and testing using PCR seem to be at odds with the reality that
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Secondly, antibiotics such as tetracycline, doxycycline and minocycline are noted for their anti-inflammatory and neuroprotective properties. Again, it would be amazing if they did not have some therapeutic effect on a population suffering from neurocognitive and arthritic symptoms. If someone is
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is very interesting. The author apparently took patients with vaguely defined symptom constellations and gave them tetracycline and Plaquenil "until patients' symptoms were resolved or improved." Ten points for Gryffindor if you spot the logical flaw here. Hint: if I have a sprained ankle and you
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There are better approaches to testing, and Iāll be glad to walk you through them, but right now Iām puzzling over how to respond to your assertion that an inaccurate test is better than no test. A test that is perceived to be more accurate than it really is, misleads the treating physician as to
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I don't see how looking at the science can damage the article, Knowledge (XXG), or the reputation of your profession. The dominant view will still be dominant, and will be presented as such in the article. The minorityās specific critiques of it should be summarized without prejudice as a notable
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Iāll go on to discuss the CSF antibody situation, which has similar political issues. For example, MGH only offers CNS serology as a send-out test, and ONLY sends it out if a parallel serum sample has previously tested positive (by ELISA, presumably) in-house. This probably accounts for the long
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Would it be more neutral if only the mainstream view was represented in the article (leaving out all references to chronic Lyme), and then have a separate section dedicated opposing views? If done right, I think this could help the neutrality of the article. The truth is, there is science on both
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Maybe I should clarify my view of primary references, with regard to what is helpful for improving Knowledge (XXG) medical articles. I think that older, influential primary references that form the basis of current recommended practice should be examined carefully, when thereās controversy as to
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Hi Anythingyouwant; Thereās no way of establishing what that number might be, from the current literature, in a way that would be acceptable here. One can only point out that the chain of evidence in the literature, cited to support the current recommendation, is fatally flawed. And that doesnāt
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I find it interesting that you are willing to find logical flaws in the treatment plans of Drs who use long term antibiotic therapy, but are unwilling to apply the same logic tests to Drs who insist on very short courses of antibiotics.However, it is not our place as wikipedia editors to sit in
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because of doubts about the source. MastCell, for more info about the book (e.g. awards and reviews), I found the following website: www.cureunknown.com. The website quotes various reputable reviewers and describes a prestigious award won by the book, and all of that info can be independently
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I fully understand that there is an orthodox view regarding treatment of LD. It is not my intent nor does my edit imply that long term oral antibiotic treatment is preferable to shorter courses of treatment. However, it is not synthesis or OR to suggest that the proven safety of long term oral
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The section under discussion is entitled: "Controversy and politics". "Controversy" implies conflicting points of view, and if there were no conflicting points of view regarding the safety of long term antibiotic therapy, it would not be a topic in this section of the article. I have presented
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I'm not really going to respond to your observations about medical culture, other than to say that they differ from mine and lead me to suspect that you have a very limited exposure to or understanding of actual medical culture. If we're making gross generalizations, I'll say that doctors are
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She gives dozens of sources en masse for the chapter, and I don't have easy access to them right now. Keep this issue in mind please, MastCell, because Knowledge (XXG) should not be telling people who get negative ELISA to never bother getting Western blot, unless that is a very firm medical
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I guess I meant that her meaning was not clear to me. Does she give a footnote or other reference for the "Stony Brook researchers" she quotes? If there's a specific study or publication she's referring to, that would at least be a start. In general, in contrast to the book's implication, the
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led the clinical trial, simultaneously with publishing his autoimmune theory (which would suggest that immunizing people with OspA is not a good idea). The theory was never proved, and remains in limbo, with occasional publications coming out that indicate it is still alive in Steere's
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That wording ("late complications of effectively treated lyme disease") would suggest a causal link (between the prior Lyme infection and the subsequent symptoms) that would not reflect scientific consensus. "Symptoms experienced after treated Lyme disease" would be more neutral. --
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reported cases. On the other hand, the "alternative" medicine suggestions in the US are alarming at best, hence, one has grave reservations regarding giving any potential emphasis, lest someone go to leeches or some other idiocy (OK, a bit extreme, but try to grasp the notion.)
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These are my personal observations, of course; everyone needs to read at least the article and talk-page histories, if not the primary Lyme disease literature and criticism upon which the mainstream view depends. We can each form our own impression of how the politics
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Further, "As for the lethality of Lyme disease, it is plausible that certain documented long-term effects of Lyme disease could contribute to some deaths, according to Dr. Kevin S. Griffith of the CDC's National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases."
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their accuracy. But new primary research papers usually arenāt relevant to improving an article, although I think it's fair to mention them in a talk page discussion, when countering someoneās charge that āthere isnāt any evidence to supportā a certain view.
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complex, nuanced situations, and I think that the medical community has, in this case, been caricatured as a monolithic, closed-minded behemoth filling the role of "villain". I guess I view that as a cop-out on some level - it's a lot easier to vilify
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specific confirmatory test, failed the screening test some 30 percent of the time." The quote at Weintraub's page 218 is this: "Like so many Lyme patients, the individual had tested negative on the ELISA test but positive on a Western blot."
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Itās generous of MastCell to educate us by showing us in detail how itās customarily done. Expecting anything more is unrealistic ā though you never know, occasionally an individual rises to meet a challenge. Best wishes for you and yours,
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have Lyme disease, but rather have diseases of unknown origin that can only be treated symptomatically, like fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome. See, for example, the influential paper I asked you to read several weeks ago,
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I recently edited the article to say that many Lyme patients reportedly test negative on ELISA but positive on the Western blot. I cited the book by Weintraub that's already in the references section of this article. MasCell
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I just read those reports, and while I agree with some of the points you highlight (they could have started treatment before the diagnosis was certain, as doctors often do), some of your characterizations seem inaccurate:
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regards to to oral antibiotics. Doxycycline cannot be "safe" for long term treatment of acne, and "unsafe" for long term treatment of LD; this is part of the "controversy" regarding LD. I am going to undo your changes.
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Instead, perhaps you might use your excellent professional expertise and communication skills to help understand and describe the substantive scientific issues in a way people can understand. If the article ever meets
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Hi there, is there someone knowledgeable about such things who could write a section on Lyme Disease is animals (pets, etc.), My dog had it, and I came here seeking info on how it works with dogs, and found nothing.
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by implying safety using studies of other conditions. There are clear safety concerns outside of mere adverse events to the patients, including the development of resistance to antibiotics. Please find reviews per
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Iām glad youāve enjoyed our discussion, I have too. If youād like to discuss science relevant to LD, or medical culture, or epistemology in general, please drop me a note on my user page. Best wishes, and thanks
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infectious diseases, but Lyme borreliosis in particular. The proposed studies will incisively investigate the mechanisms of Borrelia burgdorferi persistence, which will help lead to more effective treatment."
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Borrelia infection truly is responsible for prolonged non-specific symptoms of fatigue and lassitude. Mention should be made of this study, which is respectable work and quoted in medical textbooks.
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My wife is steadily weakening from chronic lyme disease, and I think my disgust with this article is or should be well known. However, there is a new government study just out.
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I'm a little disappointed, because I think you see the distinction I'm drawing but are choosing to caricature and oversimplify the matter instead of engaging it.
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interesting to know, and interesting to read about in this Knowledge (XXG) article. So please regard this as a question, to which I do not know the answer.
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Should this section be split off into its own article and just a summary left here? Chronic Lyme disease is really a separate entity from other forms.
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Iāve obtained and read the two books about medical culture you recommended in our discussion on your talk page. Did you get a chance at Groopmanās
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story to replace it. I could spend all day tearing down other peoples' science. That's easy. The hard part is replacing it with something better.
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564:"chronic untreated lyme" is at least of historical interest and needs to be distinguished. Sorry.. I am slow responding these days.
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New government study, and the government's position
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2139:If A = B, and B = C, then A = C. Best regards,
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717:That all makes perfect sense. Will you do it? --
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1685:I'm not sure what you're proposing to add. The
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2824:Hi Nescio, nice to meet you.
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2629:But I digress, I suppose.
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2698:Like I said... Ā :-),
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1670:Best regards to all,
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