Chronic Lyme Disease Symptoms Not Helped By Intensive Antibiotic Treatment

Results of the first randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blind trials testing antibiotics in patients with a stubborn form of Lyme disease-those whose symptoms persist after standard courses of antibiotics-validate that these patients suffer significant pain and other disabling symptoms. The two trials found, however, that a 90-day course of intravenous and oral antibiotics was no better than placebo at improving these chronic symptoms.