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Lyme is the #1 misdiagnosed disease as most do not see a tick and early tests are negative, there are no sores so patients look well misleading clinicians. Even the tiny nymph tick is infectious. Symptoms migrate so one day a knee hurts then a shoulder, then feel okay.
Lyme is 3x the rate of syphilis, the only other spiral bacteria to corkscrew into all tissues and hides out until a stress like COVID reactivates it and other coinfections like Bartonella (cat scratch fever and in ticks, lice and fleas). Bartonella was found in children with bipolar, schizophrenia, can cause skin stretch marks as a tipoff to test for it.
Lyme is the #1 misdiagnosed disease as most do not see a tick and early tests are negative, there are no sores so patients look well misleading clinicians. Even the tiny nymph tick is infectious. Symptoms migrate so one day a knee hurts then a shoulder, then feel okay.
Lyme is 3x the rate of syphilis, the only other spiral bacteria to corkscrew into all tissues and hides out until a stress like COVID reactivates it and other coinfections like Bartonella (cat scratch fever and in ticks, lice and fleas). Bartonella was found in children with bipolar, schizophrenia, can cause skin stretch marks as a tipoff to test for it.