Does Lyme disease stay in our body forever?

Interesting question but, There is no one correct answer here.

Childhood chickenpox comes to mind here since it comes out in a lot of people later on in life under stressful times as shingles.

The answer to your question be different due to different peoples Immune systems.

The immune system is very complicated, and although for at least last 20 years, they’ve known how to measure different immune cells, It only measures the volume and not the strength of them.

The state of my immune system falls perfectly in line with the modern medical definition of hypogammaglobuliminia which is one of the primary immune deficiency diseases. But that wasn’t obvious until I had Lyme disease for years. So is that really a separate disease and itself or is it a defined disease that is caused from infections wrecking havoc on the immune system. typical modern medicine is not interested in learning how people acquire this. They just give it a name once it fits into their definition.

If I still have lyme bacteria in me, it would sure be nice to have an accurate test For once to show it. There are days when I just don’t feel very good, but it’s still nothing in comparison to what I felt like before I had antibiotics.

about my immune deficiency-

This is why when people bring up the fact that their CD 57 is low, I asked them about their total protein, globulin proteins, lymphocytes, and neutrophils. If these are low, then it’s possible that any of their four immunoglobulins are also low. If those are low, they need to be tracked.

LLMD‘s don’t even seem to be that much interested in this beyond CD 57, but they certainly should be interested and they should be testing their patients what I tested for.

In the not so distant past about 6 to 8 years ago, I asked quite a few people about this. Some of them did go through and test the rest, but a lot of people just ignored what I had to say.

Going on with the rest of your life having a suppressed immune system is obviously not good and is something people should be aware of.

I realize 75% of the people that get better from lyme on this form just want that to be a part of their past and go away and not think about it again. However, there’s a very high possibility that it can somewhat influence their future health.

“Ultimately, as long as you stay in remission it doesn't really matter. Although I can understand feeling nervous about it. I would probably be nervous too after remission about whether it might return one day, or not.”

As time goes on - you get more confident about it not coming back.
Also, having access to abx in case it does come back or if you get a new tick bite is helping me.
I’m ordering some abx from AllDayChemist - just in case