Why Chronic Lyme Doesn't (And Does) Exist
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Afraid you have Lyme disease?
Does your doctor not believe you?
Are you looking for answers but confused about why different doctors say such different things? What do you know about the Lyme Wars? Did you know there was a medical war that forces doctors to take sides? Are you sure that one side is right and the other side is crazy? Would it shock you to realize that both sides are right? In this short, readable book, Dr. Maloney lays out both sides of the Lyme Wars. He has friends on both sides of the medical battle and is tired of both sides giving only part of the whole picture to patients. If you are newly diagnosed with Lyme, or if you’ve been diagnosed in the past, you deserve the whole truth. And it isn’t just one-sided. Compiling what we truly know about Lyme, rather than what one side claims and the other disputes, fills only a short book. But interested readers can follow up with more than a hundred citations to medical journal articles, as well as the thousand or more online articles. Or they can just read the summary inside the book
Christopher Maloney
Dr. Christopher Maloney has spent his life trying to become the doctor he was unable to find when he was ill himself. His practice can be summed up by: when you get hit by a bus go see your M.D. When you just feel like you were, it is time to see me.
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Why Chronic Lyme Doesn't (And Does) Exist - Christopher Maloney
Why Chronic Lyme Doesn't (And Does) Exist.
Finding Common Ground In The Lyme Wars.
Copyright 2017 Hygeian Publishing
Published by Christopher Maloney at Smashwords
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Dedication
To my patients, you have taught me so much. I value you all.
Table of Contents
Contents
Preface
1 the B.L.T. (Before Lyme's Time) Era
2 Lyme, The War Begins
3 The CDC (a.k.a., The Villain)
4 ILADS (a.k.a., The Online Good guys)
5 IDSA (a.k.a., CDC Enforcers)
6 What Else Could It Be?
7 The Lyme Wars
8 But My Lyme Lab Came Back Positive
9 Which Side Is Right?
10 Co-infections And the Wisdom Of Dogs
11 Where In the World Is Lyme?
12 Avoiding Lyme
13 Treating Lyme
14 Antibiotic Resistant Lyme?
15 Is Lyme Autoimmune?
16 Does Chronic Lyme Exist? Yes And No.
17 Will We Get a Human Vaccine?
18 Other Treatments
19 Living With Lyme
20 A Different Discussion
Endnotes
About The Author
Other Books By This Author
Connect With Christopher Maloney
Acknowledgements
I want to thank Swarthmore College for helping me think, Harvard University for giving me my pre-medical diploma, and NUNM for giving me a medical degree. Then I started my true education and learned everything about being a doctor from my patients. Thank you, my patients, for reading through the book and letting me know how it could be better.
WARNING:
The following book is for informational use only. Please discuss it with your loved ones, your caregivers, and your doctors. Medicine is constantly changing, and new studies may have already come out that contradict what is written here. Please email me or have your doctors email me for studies and information at: docmaloneynd@gmail.com
Preface
We're concerned about Lyme disease. It has now been reported globally, and in the U.S. the cases of Lyme have increased nine-fold since reporting started in 1982.¹ We want answers. What is it? How can I avoid getting it? How bad is it? What do I do to keep myself safe?
But we don't have clear answers. Instead, you hear different things from different people. A family member is talking about Chronic Lyme, but your doctor says it doesn't exist. Who's right? Why can't you just get the truth about Lyme?
There’s a war going on. The victims of the war are people like you, people concerned about Lyme disease. And regardless of who you talk to about Lyme, chances are good that you’re being told one side of the story. The Lyme Wars has taken on religious levels of faith, with both sides claiming absolute truth and heaping scorn on their opponents, the unbelievers.
As you may have guessed, I’m a heretic. I don’t believe either side. Not because both don’t have good, medical evidence to support their views, but because both have abandoned any middle ground.
It’s rare to write a book that I know will upset my colleagues on both sides of the Lyme Wars. But I need to write it for you, the patients. My colleagues on either side will forgive me, for we are all sworn to protect our patients’ best interests.
In this book I want to explain the history and arguments of the Lyme Wars, and give you the best medical answers we have about what you should do to keep yourself safe. I also want to lay out the argument that both sides may be right. (Shhh. Listen. That sound you hear, that's the sound of heads exploding in medical offices across the country as my colleagues read these words). Chronic Lyme does and doesn't exist.
We need someone to come to the middle, so that newly diagnosed people understand why they get conflicting information and people who suspect they may have Lyme can