Lyme
disease is the great imitator. It can look like Chronic Fatigue
Syndrome (CFS), as well as a host of other diseases, and it turns out
its not just Lyme where patients have had problems with misleading
science.
Although some patients with CFS have had help with anti-viral's and immune modulating drugs, most of the patients who have seen me with the diagnosis of CFS/ME end up having Lyme-MSIDS. They have an overlap of different infections (Lyme, Bartonella, Babesia, Mycoplasma, Q-fever, Tularemia, Brucella..) as well as overlapping causes of inflammation on the MSIDS map. These include hormonal disorders, POTS/dysautonomia, environmental toxins with detoxification problems, food allergies with leaky gut, mineral deficiencies, mitochondrial dysfunction,etc. Anyone with a chronic fatiguing/musculoskeletal illness with sleep problems and dysautonomia needs to be evaluated for Lyme-MSIDS. Going through all of the 16 factors on the MSIDS map helps determine where the inflammation is coming from, so it can be properly treated.
Although some patients with CFS have had help with anti-viral's and immune modulating drugs, most of the patients who have seen me with the diagnosis of CFS/ME end up having Lyme-MSIDS. They have an overlap of different infections (Lyme, Bartonella, Babesia, Mycoplasma, Q-fever, Tularemia, Brucella..) as well as overlapping causes of inflammation on the MSIDS map. These include hormonal disorders, POTS/dysautonomia, environmental toxins with detoxification problems, food allergies with leaky gut, mineral deficiencies, mitochondrial dysfunction,etc. Anyone with a chronic fatiguing/musculoskeletal illness with sleep problems and dysautonomia needs to be evaluated for Lyme-MSIDS. Going through all of the 16 factors on the MSIDS map helps determine where the inflammation is coming from, so it can be properly treated.
Putting politics
aside, working together for the benefit of those who suffer with
"unexplained chronic illness", and shifting the paradigm for chronic
disease by going from a one disease/one etiology model to a
multifactorial model like MSIDS is paramount if we are going to start
making a dent in the chronic disease epidemics facing us in the 21st
century.
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After
years of pleas from patients and experts, the CDC quietly dropped from
its website two debunked recommendations for treating chronic fatigue
syndrome.
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