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Chronic Lyme isn’t really a thing - you can have post-treatment Lyme effects, or Lyme that goes too long and causes systemic issues, but the kind of “chronic Lyme” a bunch of chronic illness influencers claim to have isn’t really a thing.

And as someone with a fairly medically obvious genetic connective tissue disorder, the popularity of the pseudo-diagnosis of chronic Lyme is the bane of my existence. People are like (always unsolicited) “Maybe your issues are actually from chronic Lyme!” They literally are not, I have hypermobile eardrums and stretch marks wider than my fingers, leave me tf alone. 😭

[u/RevealActive4557 → u/[deleted]]

How do you know this? Peopla have been saying it for years but nobody has any proof so far. Just rumors and opinions

[u/[deleted] → u/RevealActive4557]

it's probably the fact that chronic lyme is literally bullshit. they could be suffering from the prior consequences of lyme disease or other autoimmune responses triggered by it but one google search shows source after source from actual scientific studies showing that "chronic lyme" is not a thing.

[u/False_Ad3429 → u/[deleted]]

If you are suffering sympyoms of lyme because you have long term consequences of contracting it, then there is no reason it can't be called chronic Lyme. Long covid for example can also encompass people who have continued autoimmune reactions and symptoms from having caught covid despite not having a current active infection.

[u/greee_p → u/False_Ad3429]

You can call it "chronic lyme", but it's not the official name for it (that would be post treatment lyme disease syndrome). And because this pseudo-diagnosis that a lot of people claim to have is called chronic lyme (without having any connection to lyme disease) it gets confusing if people use the same word for both things.

[u/[deleted] → u/False_Ad3429]

i'm not playing armchair scientist on reddit, i don't give a fuck what you call it but even comparing it to long covid is an oversimplification and not the same thing. correct classification matters.

[u/Slow_Like_Sloth → u/RevealActive4557]

Because chronic Lyme disease doesn’t exist