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Fun fact: if you have any kind of autoimmune disease, it's easy to get a false positive on certain blood tests commonly used to diagnose Lyme disease, because the less-specific tests can pick up general immune activity regardless of its cause.

I fear for how many people have (falsely) tested positive for Lyme disease, despite never having been exposed, and fallen down a rabbit hole of pseudoscientific treatments while their actual health issues remain untreated. And of course your symptoms will only worsen, which seems to reinforce the need for useless "chronic Lyme" treatments, and so on and so forth.



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