Ross Douthat
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first heard Mar 2022
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And that person is a big victim of the illness too, in the sense that they are constantly absorbing the really toxic energy that an unhappy sick person generates.
And so when you're one degree removed, offering yourself in that person's place for an hour here or an afternoon there.
It was really important, for instance, to the health of my marriage that I could go vent to my father instead of to my wife sometimes.
So that I think is a useful way for people who are not the spouse, not the person in intimate contact.
They're not just helping the sick person.
They're trying to sort of spell the person who is suffering in their own way.
from the illness profoundly.
So right now the sort of gold standard NIH studies are ones that have taken the official four to six week protocol of antibiotic treatment and just sort of extended it for in most of them like six to eight more weeks.
I think one of them did go almost to three months.
Based on both my experience, my reading, everything else.
Else I would say that a trial that was really testing the chronic Lyme theory would would need to run for six months or nine months to be really responsive to what patients are experiencing and what doctors are doing.
And there are, I think, some trials that have worked with some of the weird things that chronic Lyme doctors do, like pulsing, where you give people antibiotics for two weeks.
Or three weeks, and then you stop for two weeks and then you go back again.
This is another way of getting at that idea that you need the bacteria to come out.
But I think they've been in test tubes, not in human subjects.
I'm not as up on the literature as I was three or four years ago when I was reading it all the time.
I think that's the combination of what you would want from a trial.
You would want the trial to run longer and you would want it to try.
try out one or two of the things that the chronic Lyme doctors are trying, whether it's pulsing, whether it's multiple antibiotics, something along those lines.
I think there are real rewards in this.
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