Cure Unknown: Inside the Lyme Epidemic
Cure Unknown: Surrounded by the Lyme Epidemic Books
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When Pamela Weintraub, a science journalist, learned that her oldest son tested positive for Lyme disease, she plotting she had found an resolution to the symptoms that had been plaguing her family for years—but her nightmare had just begun. Nearly everything about Lyme disease turned out to be deeply controversial, from the microbe causing the infection, to the part and type of treatment and the kind of practitioner needed.
On one side of the fight, the scientists who first studied Lyme describe a disease transmitted by a deer tick that is hard to catch but simple to cure no matter how advanced the case. On the other side, radical doctors insist that Lyme and a soup of “co-infections” cause a complicated spectrum of illness often dramatically different – and far more trying to handle – than the original researchers claim. Instead of just swollen knees and a rash, patients can experience exhaustion, disabling pain, and a “Lyme fog” that leaves them dazed and confused. As patients struggle for answers, once-treatable infections become chronic.
In this nuanced picture of the intense controversy and crippling uncertainty surrounding Lyme disease, Pamela Weintraub sheds light on one of the angriest medical disputes furious today. The most comprehensive book ever written about the past, bestow and future of Lyme disease, Cure Unknown exposes the ticking clock of a furious epidemic and the vulnerability we all share.
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I was prepared to have this book authenticate my sense that in the course of apt huge business, medical do has become increasingly unresponsive, uncoordinated, and impersonal. But, this is one of the few books that really nudged me towards siding with establishment doctors, despite the reputation that many of them have for being egotistical and abrupt. That’s because I was exhausted and confounded just reading here about the prolonged symptoms attributed to Lyme disease. I may possibly presume doctors being also keen to turn their backs on the problem.
Weintraub’s family seems to have had an unusually high degree of sensitivity to one or another of the spirochetes charged with causing Lyme disease. She and a large percentage of the fellow sufferers with whom she’s ultimately been able to network have endured years of crippling pain, enervation, and disorientation. Many of these people had distress getting their family physicians to reach an initial diagnosis of Lyme disease, due to the equivocal nature of the test blots used. Then once they had been at least tentatively diagnosed, they had even more distress getting their doctors to continue prescribing the massive doses of antibiotics over the months and years it took to make any difference in their shape up. As a result, many of these patients have turned to the handful of doctors who slyly continue to prescribe the antibiotics for them, risking their medical licenses in the administer.
It might be trying for the average reader lucky enough to delight in relatively excellent health to relate to this sort of on-going medical extremity. It becomes even more trying to relate after Weintraub tells how her family members’ actions might have occasionally contributed to re-activating the disease. For example, she tells how one of her children, after being effectively bedridden for years, finally rallied below his regimen of antibiotics and became strong enough to attend an area University. Knowing her family members’ ultra adverse reaction to whatever was injected into them by those deer ticks endemic to the northeastern province, she had everlastingly had the sorry task of maintenance them away from any exposure by maintenance them away from nature. No gardening, no walks in the woods, no jumping into piles of autumn leaves. All these delights were forever foreclosed to them. She hoped her children would continue to take the same precautions as they became well enough to once more go out into the world.
But when she first visited this son on campus, she was horrified to see him running BAREFOOT across a lawn. And sure enough, soon afterwards, his symptoms returned with a vengeance and laid him low again. In effect – back to square one.
So I may possibly sympathize with even the most callous doctor’s dismissal of these cases. I finished the book feeling also helpless and frustrated – and still very far from any answers.
Rating: 3 / 5
Having written four books on Lyme disease myself, I was skeptical about this book — do we really need *another* Lyme disease book? As Lyme books flood the market, I reckon many are asking this question.
But, after reading this book, I can say that it is a valuable and unique book. I reckon the best accomplishment of the book is to neatly and painstakingly tie together the current state of affairs in the “Lyme world.” Many books have bits and pieces of the current situation, but this book captures the snapshot of Lyme politics, treatment, research, and promotion, in a clean, entertaining, and well-written make.
Additionally, I reckon the book will be very helpful to the “masses” – both the broadcast and the thousands of conventional physicians involved “non-Lyme literate” medicine. For the broadcast, this book has been written and presented accurately and professionally and will offer a much needed wake up call and education on Lyme disease, even for the beginner. For the physicians, the book will allow them to “get their feet wet” in the Lyme world without resorting to more fringe, less accepted books and writings.
The one area where the book is gone is broad coverage of treatment options and alternative therapies, but this is an acceptable limitation, since that is not why this book was written. For treatment in rank, both conventional and alternative, I suggest reading the other books available on the topic, including the four I have written, and, for example, the brilliant co-infection books penned by James Schaller, M.D. (covering Babesiosis and Bartonella infections).
Still, even with limited coverage of treatments, the book yet presents some quite fascinating and novel in rank on a few advanced treatment strategies, one of which was used to heal both the author of the book and one of the most prominent Lyme-literate doctors in the people (this particular treatment, which uses pulsed application of the cephalosporin antibiotic Ceftin, is discussed in Chapter 44, titled “How I Cured My Own Lyme Disease”).
Yes, after more than a dozen Lyme books released in the last year or two, this book is worth the paper, and should be read by anyone affected by tick-borne disease.
Bryan Rosner
Author, “The Top 10 Lyme Disease Treatments”
Website: LymeBook Dot Com
Rating: 5 / 5
This book is very well written and clarifies Lyme from its discovery to its presnet state of debate over treatment protocols. The in rank is presented in a intersting way so you can get this vital data without getting bogged down in things that are irrelevant. As other reviewers have pointed out it does not list Alternative or adjuncitive treatments to antibiotics so any reader would have to seach elsewhere for this data. With that said “Cure Unknown” is an apt title for this book.
Rating: 5 / 5
Fantastic product but the delivery took forever… I don’t know if Amazon had to order the book and then send it out or what but it took, I reckon, over 2 weeks to have it delivered (which is a first for me for an Amazon buy!).
Rating: 4 / 5
Fantastic book.
Lyme is just another tale of unique interest groups in Washington paying off doctors to lie to the broadcast and deny treatment or even diagnosis.
A must read.
If you already have lyme (many do and dont know it) beware lyme uses a “efflux pump” to resist all tetra and marcolide class abx. There are ways to plug this pump.
Rating: 5 / 5