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Samuel Shor, MD - Treating Lyme & Chronic Lyme
ILADS defines #chronicLymedisease (CLD) as a multisystem illness with a wide range of symptoms and/or signs that are either continuously or intermittently present for a minimum of six months #ILADS2022
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Only 18% of 1770 children with #Lyme disease
remember being bitten
Nigrovic LE, et al A minority of children diagnosed with Lyme disease recall a preceding tick bite 2019, Vol.10(3), p.694 #ILADS2022
3/Shor: The CDC acknowledges that its #Lyme case definition was developed for surveillance purposes. It is NOT to be used as an absolute criteria for clinical diagnosis. #ILADS2022
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Many with #longCovid are finding it difficult to describe what they are feeling. Those of us in the #MECFS and #ChronicLymeDisease #EDS community have had longer to think about and put these experiences into words…
Post-viral illness wreaks havoc on multiple systems within your body which of course are interconnected. The way I describe it is that you are losing your body’s life force — this is different from your soul. And it’s not just energy. It’s your actual life’s force.
In the beginning when you first get sick, you can still feel the healthy parts of you versus the sick parts — kind of like layers of an onion.

But eventually the sick parts seep into the healthy parts and you can no longer distinguish between the two.
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