Yes, I also have had some contact with the false negative culture of Lyme Disease testing. At that time the common hospital lab test produced an unacceptable number of false negatives (may still be the case); however, one or two specialized research labs offered a superior test but without insurance coverage. Few patients proceeded to that test at their own expense. I’ve forgotten a lot of the details, but the etiology of many not properly diagnosed symptom clusters might well lie with the tick bite.
YEAH IT’S A BIG PROBLEM- LIKE DOWN SOUTH, THERE IS LITTLE DATA ON HOW MANY PROPEL ARE AFFECTED- BUT i’M SURE THE TICKS MIGRATED SOUTH OVER HTE YEARS- AND PEOPLE DOWN THERE ARE GETTING ‘MYSTERIOUS ILLNESSES’ (woops cps locl) which they attribute to the ‘wastebasket diagnosis’ of ‘fibromyalgia’ or ‘chronic fatigue’, but i know when folks there asks “Could it be lyme disease’ docs will say ‘nope- don’t have it around here yet’- at least that’s how it used to be- years ago0- maybe it’s different now that more and more cases have been proven in those states-
They scream about the false ‘opioid crisis’, but we have a real crisis unfolding with lyme’s disease brewing in this country- (and it’s not just lyme’s disease- there are several more equally devastating diseases that ticks carry- which are really gaining in numbers of cases). I wish hey put some Serious effort into eradicating it or at l east slowing it way way down-