An acquaintance of mine from work has suffered with Lymes for a dozen years or so. She is unable to work now, and seldom without discomfort.
There is actually no such thing as Chronic Lyme Disease. It’s one of the many self-diagnosed diseases. They usually have something else that is hard to diagnose so the doctors just accept the patient’s diagnosis. They test positive for Lyme because they had it at one time.
A friend had CFS/Lyme....except when she went home to Louisiana to visit family. It turned out to be a bad case of Depression.