What's the percentage of patients who actually recover [mostly] w/antibiotics for LYME disease??

Question

SO WHY IS IT THAT MANY PPL CLAIM ANTIBIOTICS DON'T WORK FOR THEM for Lyme Disease??

IS THIS TRUE?!?! THAT most of the time antibiotics actually don't work??

MY STEP BROTHER AND MOM'S HUSBAND each contacted Lymes.

They both took antibiotics, and it "did the job" w/no reaccurances.

YES, I AM CONCERNED!!

BECAUSE I BELIEVE I'VE CONTACTED LD, or have a fairly good chance unfortunately, --but I see my doctor TODAY and have had hopes of these antibiotics to resolve it either completely or atleast throw it into remission, so I can move on to herbal supps + detoxes and lymph drainage treatment to further my recovery.

PLEASE GIVE ME SOME HOPE HERE!!!!!

I DO NOT want to be confused b4 I even SEE MY DOCTOR?!?!

Answer 1

Okay. The percentage is 20% that recover from this disease caused by tiny ticks that can do alot of harm to a human body, mostly including the legs which will be severly at harm if you or anyone else doesnt get the symptoms checked out immedietly, Symptoms: Leg pain, Flu-like symptoms,nausea, headache, and illusions.

Answer 2

I didn't mean to take away your hope with my answer to your prior question. If you catch it early, the chances are good that antibiotics will work.

The reason that I put the other information in there is so that you won't have false confidence in the treatment and ignore possible continuation of the disease.

I'm doing some research online and coming up with varying success rates for antibiotics. I have provided links.

Basically, you take one step at a time. If the first step works, excellent. If it doesn't, you have options before you.

I don't know why they did blood work. As far as I understand, it takes 4-6 weeks to test positive. Maybe it's just protocol.