A negative Western Blot does not and cannot prove the absence of the infection.

A negative Western Blot does not and cannot prove the absence of the infection.

Having taken another route altogether, we have recognized the following:
Today many if not most Americans are carriers of the infection. Most infected people are symptomatic, but the severity and type of the symptoms varies greatly. The microbes often invade tissues that had been injured: your chronic neck pain or sciatica really may be a Bb infection. The same may be true for your chronic TMJ problem, your adrenal fatigue, your thyroid dysfunction, your GERD and many other seemingly unrelated symptoms. 
In most places the diagnosis of an active Bb infection is made only, if the symptoms are severe, persistent, obvious and many non-specific and fruitless avenues of treatment have been exhausted. Acute new “typical”cases of Bb infection are rare in my practice. Symptoms tend to get stranger and more obscure every year. 


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