“I didn’t get better on his steady dose of antibiotics, the constant pain didn’t go away — while the advice to go off antibiotics entirely led to disasters, where I stopped the drugs and disintegrated quickly.” That's what New York Times columnist Ross Douthat wrote about his painful and long battle with Lyme Disease.
Though some are lucky enough to recover quickly from the malady, others don’t. Douthat’s passage was plainly awful, and readers no doubt know other people personally who suffered a recovery like Douthat’s. There’s no way of knowing ahead of time, but if you’re one of the unlucky ones, the path back to normal health is brutal.
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