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Once you have lyme disease do you always have it or will it go away fully with antibiotics?

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Infection goes away: Treatment approaches to lyme disease are sometimes controversial. Most lyme disease is easily cured with routine antibiotics prescribed by a doctor familiar with lyme. Late stage lyme disease occurring after initial treatment is usually due to a repeat infection. Persistent symptoms after antibiotics (post lyme syndrome) are not fixed by additional antibiotics & requires further medical research.

Answered 10/12/2018

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Lyme Disease: Very difficult to answer. At least 3 weeks of antibiotics are recommended but there can be variable responses to treatment. Some people are treated and have no lingering symptoms, others can have many.

Answered 8/2/2018

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