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Need a Doctor who specializes in lyme disease
by clord, Nov 28, 2008 03:46PM
My husband was diagnosed with lyme disease in July 2008. He has been on doxicyclene 3 times since then. He has horrible pain in the joints of his shoulders and elbows 24-7. His primary care doctor did blood work 3 weeks ago and was concerned that the levals were exactly the same as in July. He sent my husband back to the infectious disease doctor he saw in July. She basically told my husband to get cortizone shots because it was not the lyme disease. With all the literature I have read I so believe his pain is from the lyme disease. He had xrays of both arms just to make sure and they were fine. My question is is there a lyme disease specialist in the Worcester Massachusetts area that we can go see? Thanks to anyone that has any insight to this.
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They can help you find an LLMD as well. Let them know the city and state where you live.
Some (if not most) Infectious Disease (ID) doctors do not believe that Lyme disease can lead to a persistent Lyme infection, and therefore refuse to prescribe antibiotic treatment. However, they do not seem to offer any beneficial treatments either. I know this from a correspondence I started with the head of ID at a prominent medical school in my city. He basically said he will never prescribe it as the infection no longer exists. This directly conflicts with what's on their very own Web site. When I pointed this out, he dismissed me out of hand -- quick. The truth is there is research to support antibiotic therapy but it is rarely cited on government Web sites. I also pointed out to him that maybe research dollars would be better spent in coming up with a cure for chronic Lyme disease as opposed to disproving any one antibiotic. People get sick after a tick bite. There's no disputing that!
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Hope you can decipher that.