No. It is not about the health of somebody's immune system, though as I mentioned there are genetics involved, and certain genetic profiles are more likely to have a chronic inflammatory response leading to autoimmune type syndromes (30% of the population). There are people who were healthy as an ox before being bitten by a tick and bedridden soon after. And there is every specturm in between. There are also many different strains with different virulence.
That idea you mentioned unfortunately was the lie the CDC and others took, saying lyme disease was mostly asymptomatic and would burn itself out in time anyway. So you get someone like hte bond trader I mentioned, healthy except for MS...works fulltime, takes 2 shots a week, but is in constant pain, requires sleeping pills, and can't stand for long. And he believes its MS until I send him to a lyme specialist, gets tested, and turns up positive.
There's way too much of that around. Not just MS...but lots of stuff. For instance, the husband of the doctor who gave me hyperbaric sessions in her clinic some years ago only had, at age 38, strange heart symptoms, no fatigue, nothing else, and they were going to do some kind of exploratory surgery when she thought, wait a second, let me test him for lyme. And he had it, along with the coinfection bartonella.
Its model is syphilis. Another spirochete. You have an initial infection (which someone, or a dog, may experience as a flu) and then it goes into secondary and tertiary stages. Or leptospirosis (sp?). Its relapsing remitting spirochetal illness. |
