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blymey said: As Lyme affects the brain, can it change he personality in your opinion? Can it make a person lash out, for no reason like, because of the infection in the brain? Although the question was addressed to Dr. McDonald I also wanted to let you know that there are quite a few Lyme patients w...

Chadwik1, If lactose and gluten free diets seem to be helping - stick to them. There are many people in this and other Lyme forums who are doing better when on these diets.
Lyme disease is know to cause various auto-immune condititions and Gluten sensitivity seems to be one of them.

slmo, are you on any antiobiotics right now?

Thanks Rita!
I'll have to look into this again.

http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/sapolsky09/sapolsky09_index.html TOXO A Conversation with Robert Sapolsky ROBERT SAPOLSKY is a professor of biological sciences at Stanford University and of neurology at Stanford's School of Medicine. His books include A Primate's Memoir, and Zebras Don't Get Ulcers:...

Thanks so much, RitaA. Gluten sensitivity is a major interest to me. I as well as both of my kids are on a gluten free diet and it helps us a lot with various problems, including focus, irritability, brain fog. My son and I both have done blood tests for gluten antibodies (although I don't quite rem...

Thanks Rita for all your research!

Wow Spanky! Do you mean that all of us who are the exceptions (10% of Lymies at least) are not allowed to post here?
Interesting!

Thanks Rita, that was very interesting.

Carina, Since it takes so long for the skin symptoms to appear, how do doctors know that it is B. afzelii rather than B. garinii for example? Western Blot bands usually don't differ that much for different B. strains, right? So it's mostly from other (neurological) symptoms, or from culture tests? C...