I have Lyme disease.

[willamette]

14. I had it for 11 years.

I don't have it now. Here is what I learned. It has three forms: 1) cell wall 2) no cell wall 3) cyst. Each broad-spectrum antibiotic goes after one form. the spirochete changes to the other 2 forms to wait it out. The way I finally got rid of it was by taking Amoxicillin, Bactrim, and Flagyl simultaneously until I was symptom free. I can't remember exactly, but I think it was 4 months. I decided that saying "I think I'm over it," means that you still have it. When it was finally gone, the statement that came out was, "I don't have it anymore." Yes, there were aftereffects of those antibiotics, and none of them were good. I read, in the Lyme newsgroups back in the day, that high pressure oxygen treatment really helped, but it didn't cure. There are legions of sufferers out there, and the most common diagnosis is "hypochondria."