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I almost chose to see him back in 2007 when he was still in the Springfield area, but chose Dr. Masters instead.

And now I know why you are calling it Master's Disease!! LOL! It does bother me that so many LLMD's still don't use that term, but it's likely only because I know how hard he worked on it and the fight he went through to get the CDC to recognize that Lyme treatments worked for it as well. He told me with a smile on his face, that's how he was able to treat so many Lyme patients, he just diagnosed them with Masters, and since the CDC wasn't concerned with anything other than Lyme patients, they never bothered him or his "Masters disease patients".

Yes, I was very lucky to have met such a wonderful, caring, curious man. I was just beyond his scope of understanding back then. Essentially, no one knew or understood how much detoxing was necessary, or how to help someone titrate their meds up - so I was termed as an abx failure, but no one understood why.

Dr. Masters honestly begged me to stay with him, but I simply was too sick to make the trip. It was a 19 hour drive round trip for me. I was having seizures, blacking out/passing out, and couldn't find my way around my own town of 2,000 people so there was no way I was capable of making the trip to see him - but that lead me to my own healing, so it's okay. I obviously still think highly of him and don't believe they have celebrated him enough. He made great strides in getting people treated when the CDC was working hard to shut down LLMD's back then as well.

Personally, I like Dr. Horowitz's MSIDS term best. Multiple Systemic Infectious Disease Syndrome because there are often viruses mixed in there as well - but trying to get people to use that term when we can't even make enough progress to get them to say Masters instead of STARI may be too much to ask unfortunately.

We may be stuck with the term "Lyme" meaning all the possible tick-borne infections.

I think it would be worthwhile to be treated/continue treatment, and retest at a later date. No activity later would be a good sign, and if their is increased activity or a more definite result, that gives you an answer as well. A bit of peace of mind either way, and most treatments don't really have a detrimental effect on your body/health aside from any reaction from the medication itself (they won't kill you, you just have to tolerate any side effects you may experience which is likely well worth the hassle).

Yes.