Re: Au revoir, Matias

Pd <peterd.news@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> Bella Jones <me9@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 
> > A cousin of mine had ME for 20 years, all his adult life, but it was
> > only in the last couple of years that he was in contact with a doctor
> > working on the theory that ME is actually caused by a spirochete from
a
> > tick - and lo, they found it in his blood, and he had to take nuclear
> > doses of antibiotics.  bloody waste of 20 years.
> 
> Did it fix him? Lyme disease is caused by one of the spirochetes that
> you can get from tick bites. Apparently they're quite susceptible to a
> short course of antibiotics.

Lyme disease - that's what i was meaning.  I am not exactly sure how he
is as I don't see him often.  But if it's been embedded that long you
can have to take antibiotics for up to a year or more. and they can make
you as ill as the illness.

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