A Few Questions About Lyme

1, weakness vs autoimmunity - both actually - not everyone will with lyme have a named auto-immune disease but all will have some form of immune dysregulation - and while your boy is fighting this you are typically more susceptible to getting more infections.

2, some people never get sick, some get sick with a fever or "summer flu" - and then quickly recover - some get sick and are ill for years - some never recover - its a spectrum. other factors like health status before the infection, other infections present in the person or the tick, environmental factors, genetics etc all play a part.

3, research has been lacking in the co-infections - lagging behind lyme - which was itself neglected. some groups have been researching bartonella in particular - Zang et al, Breschwerds et al, another group in France - i think Breischwerds and his group just got funding to do some treatment research on bartonella. i don't hear much on the other co-infections

data is hard to come by - but its a minority - mak24

but i don't see it like that - its just what the disease is - we have to face the reality of what it is in order to deal with it appropriately. And do what is in our power to be one of those in the categories that recover -

if we do that then there is no point in worrying of thinking about the what ifs - we are already doing everything that can be done.

proper diagnosis and proper treatment are two obvious thing that can and should be done

but there are many things that we can do to improve our chances
from the food we eat to how we sleep, and how we manage our stress levels
these all help support the body to move towards improving health
typically these things also improve our quality of life in the now also.