One of the biggest concerns Lyme disease patients have when beginning treatment is whether or not they will have a herxing response. In fact, it’s one of the most common questions I hear in my practice: “What if I Herx?” A Herxheimer reaction (or “Herx”) is a temporary flare of symptoms that can occur when […]
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New research into Lyme arthritis is challenging long-standing assumptions about what causes persistent symptoms after treatment. For years, many clinicians believed that when patients continued to experience swollen joints even after antibiotics, the inflammation was simply due to an overactive immune system reacting to leftover bacterial debris — not an ongoing infection. But that explanation
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Babesia lyme treatment failure is more common than most patients realize. She wasn’t immunocompromised. So why was she still sick months after Lyme treatment? That was the question we kept coming back to. She’d been told Babesia wouldn’t be a problem—unless she had a weakened immune system. She didn’t. But she was still dealing with
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