Two-tier Lyme testing begins with a crucial distinction: a positive Lyme screening test is not, by itself, a positive Lyme test. That distinction matters when syphilis is in the differential, because antibodies produced against Treponema pallidum can react with antigens used in some Lyme disease screening assays. Treating the screen as a diagnosis can lead a clinician to label a patient with syphilis as having Lyme disease.
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Lyme Has Warriors. Syphilis Has Silence.
Lyme disease and syphilis occupy very different public worlds. With Lyme disease, a patient can enter an entire network of advocacy organizations, support groups, podcasts, documentaries, physician directories, disease-specific news outlets, awareness campaigns and fundraising galas. Global Lyme Alliance operates peer-support programs and holds a major annual gala, while LymeDisease.org maintains support groups, patient resources, physician information, research programs and multiple news and commentary publications. The Lyme community may be divided and controversial, but it is visible.[1][2]
Lyme Has a Chaotic Relative: What Everyone Should Know About Syphilis
If you saw the wizard-in-a-death-spiral image on this page, you already understand the vibe: a pathogen that doesn’t just “show up,” get labeled, and politely exit. If Lyme disease is the spirochete people argue about at the dinner table, syphilis is the older relative nobody wants to mention—the one with a longer memory, a wider reach, and a talent for going quiet just long enough to be missed.
And “missed” is the operative word.
New Morgellons Case-Report Leaves More Questions Than Answers
New Morgellons case-report. In this report a 45-year-old man presented to the emergency room after overdosing on Benadryl. The man was complaining about burning, and little barbs that appeared in his skin as worms or cocoons which he could express (expel). The physician thought the man may have Morgellons and referred him to psychiatry. Psychiatry …
Quality of Life and Morgellons, Treatment Considerations with Dr. Steven Feldman
At 12PM EST on 2/22/2022 Dr. Steven Feldman returned to Morgellons Discussion and Microscopy Videos to answer several questions and review the literature with us. “Chronic skin diseases have a huge impact on patients’ lives. We can help make great improvements in our patients’ lives, if they will use the medicine we prescribe. That’s a …