Are joints damaged FOREVER?????

I honestly can't answer that question. I imagine it would be different for everyone on how much they recover. Some go back to full health and others have to live with the pain lyme leaves behind. If the disease is still affecting you then I would think that abx couldn't hurt your joints.

There are ways to restore joint health once the Lyme is gone. And I'm not talking about joint replacement surgery, either. There are herbs, nutritional supplements, exercises, etc. that can help. For example, my Husband was almost housebound from damage to his joints from long-term steroid use. Then he started taking MSM and his joints started improving and stopped hurting. So he got into hiking and now his joints are doing very well.

Shutter,
You know I thought that too. I had so much pain and just thought that this was the way that it was going to be.
But after doing my treatment all of my pain went away.
But as with the horrific brain fog...and memory problems and severe depression and fatique.
I was very suprissed that these all were gone once I got better. I thought and so did my dr.s that I was developing alxthemiers. Yet they could not see it in a MRI...but I had all of the symptons.
So it was like going through a car wash....everthing just washed off.
Not to say that my back is not bothering me some rigth before my cycle..and the horrific stress of this month. But....all things considered. I am very well.