Lyme Disease for Life?

ABC NEWS
Chronic Symptoms, Unproven Treatments Typify Mysterious Tick-Borne Illness

For an estimated 20,000 Americans each year, the symptoms above culminate in a diagnosis of Lyme disease — an inflammatory bacterial illness transmitted by the bite of a deer tick.

Fortunately for the vast majority of Lyme disease sufferers, two to four weeks worth of antibiotic therapy is enough to spur a total recovery from the illness.

But a very small number of patients report a much more serious struggle with the illness.

Brooke Landau, a traffic reporter for the ABC News affiliate KGTV in San Diego, was one of these patients. (more…)