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Yesterday I read the following words in a Swedish book:

"You have to be an expert, to not know what you are talking about."

Thank you again, Dr Googlittle! :D Yes, you are right, because in Sweden they don't know the problem with chronic (=of long duration) Lyme together with my type of immune deficiency. The bacteria will never go away and I will never come into remission, so I have plenty of time to "do, what I intende...

I said: If the person is able to separate only the "hatchlings" from the blood, and if he/she is able to culture it, then the person have proved that the "hatchlings" actually are Lyme. But if he/she also have included red blood cells (or maybe some Lyme granules) in the culture (Lyme live inside bl...

I try to explain my point (my english isn't perfect). If the person is able to separate only the "hatchlings" from the blood, and if he/she is able to culture it, then the person have proved that the "hatchlings" actually are Lyme. But if he/she also have included red blood cells (or maybe some Lyme...

Lida Mattman say:

In contrast, it has been difficult to grow the spirochete from the patient’s blood.

Wasn't we talking about culturing from blood, here?

I don't need to prove that is is Lyme (in my own blood) any longer, it is confirmed to be Lyme by a skilled Swedish microbiologist. And, as I have said before, it is not hard to identify an adult spirochete (even if it is not spiral shaped) in blood! But, it is very hard to find a spiral shaped spir...

Lida Mattman told us herself, that they often "miss" the first intruction:

1. Do not use the medium on the day of preparation. Refrigerate 24 hours before use.

Googlelittle! Ok, so you actually say that what is probably CWD/L-form of the bacteria will grow in some other media? And then a PCR will (always) find the borrelia? And, that is is enough with "a couple of days" of cultivating before the PCR? I have hard to believe this! But, you maybe could find s...

Spanky, you wrote: Guidelines are just that. You cannot possibly write a set of treatment guidelines that covers every conceivable possibility. They are a framework, a guide. If you have "the type of Lyme ("chronic Lyme with complications"), that IDSA don't talk about and IDSA don't have any recomme...

Spanky, you wrote: Guidelines are just that. You cannot possibly write a set of treatment guidelines that covers every conceivable possibility. They are a framework, a guide. I don't know how many times I have heard "the Guidelines say so, you don't need any more treatment". And I am immune deficien...