Any Role of Lyme Disease in Sarcoidosis?

Has anyone on the forum been diagnosed with Sarcoidosis then later with Lyme?  Or Vice Versa?  A person I know is being tested for possible sarcoidosis and was told if positive, the treatment would be steroids.  My first thought since it's considered an autoimmune disease, this person should be tested for lyme.  I pulled up a few websites that indicated a relationship.  Any thoughts or comments?

What I just read about it is that one cause could be an "extreme immune response to infection". That would pretty much qualify LD & any other tbi.

So instead of treating sarcoidosis as a disease in itself, the treatment should be geared toward any underlying infection???? Given what I know now, the Igenex test should come before any treatment. If this person's lung biopsy comes back as sarcoidosis, they are going to treat with steroids. If there is Lyme, the treatment may work temporarily yet weaken the immune system even more. The sad thing is that I don't think these folks will listen to me....or even want to listen to me because I'm perceived as pretty much a nutcase. I'll think on this awhile longer. Thanks Razzle and Trav.

That's worrisome and is making sense. Any autoimmune disease is still a disease in itself, however, there is a possibility that lyme and co "triggered" or "allowed" it to occur. They still have the AI disease and need treated for it. There is also the possibility that lyme can mimic an AI disease, and those are the folks that respond the best to lyme treatment and not the AI treatment??? However, if lyme &/or co triggered or allowed an AI disease, the AI disease can respond to treatment yet the patient remains sicker than expected because of the underlying infection (maybe sicker if it's lyme and patient is treated with high dose steroids)???? Which, by the way, the underlying infection may not be found because traditional medicine won't look for it?????

The person awaiting diagnosis is male, the main breadwinner, in mid-30's with two children.....and extremely, extremely mainstrain medicine. He also doesn't like me much!! Thank you for your prayers, nasalady. I fear he will need them.

bucci, I always enjoy (maybe not the right word...I don't enjoy somebody else's pain) and relate to your posts. I grew up in an environment similar to yours...explosive and uncomfortable. I think that's part of what weakened my immune system for all this mess.

Trav, Thanks for the corrective jerk or maybe I should say adjusting my perspective!!! You're absolutely right. I will let them know I'm available for discussions, but not gonna cram it down any throats... What I will do is mention that I think he should get an Igenex lyme test before he does anything. Other than that, information given will be by his request only. How's that???!!!!

But in the meantime, I'm researching.

By the way...completely off the subject, but has anybody done any reading about horseradish and lyme? I bought a jar this evening, brought it home and put almost a teaspoon in my mouth...thought my head would blow off....but it IS an antibiotic and it's listed in some of the lyme sites.

Maybe we'll find a whole new antibiotic-free way to help with lyme & co!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! One article I read mentioned it killed parasites.... I'm figuring it won't hurt to try a little each day. It sure opens up the sinuses.

Still researching the sarcoidosis and any relationship to lyme and/or co. Lots of information for the ones who want to step outside the traditional way of thinking and yet another disease that may have a TBI beginning????

I was diagnosed with Sarcoidosis in 2014 and tested positive in 2017 for Lyme. I was given 2 rounds of antibiotic for Lyme disease and then retested my blood and it was negative for lyme. I have lungs full of scar tissue and shortness of breath. I am on 30 mg of prednisone a day. Two weeks ago, I started a regimen of natural meds for lyme disease just for my own self-help and to hopefully get off the steroids and get rid of the joint pain. I can say I NO longer have any shortness of breath, I can walk long distances with no problem. All my joint pain has been reduced it seems to be getting better every day. I think Lyme is the culprit in my case, and is hiding in my body and the steroids are just helping it thrive. The natural medicines on the other hand are kicking it's butt! I have to say I feel amazing getting my breathing back if nothing else, is fantastic!!!!