Guest guest Posted January 5, 2010 Report Share Posted January 5, 2010 Hi ,Once Lyme Bacteria (Borellia Burgdorferi) gets into your Central Nervous System, it infects your nerve tissue. Your immune system, once it starts keying off the bacteria's antigens, will cross the blood brain barrier into the CNS in an attempt to combat it. The creates inflamation. This inflamation is what damages the myelin that coats your axons.This is one of the main reasons why Lyme can often be misdiagnosed as MS. It is my personal belief that MS actually IS Chronic Neurological Lyme disease.This is precisely my case. I have Chronic Neurological Lyme Disease. But to any neurologist who just goes by the CDC textbook definition of Lyme Disease.....it is MS to them.I am seeing a LLMD. It took months of research to find one and then convince him to treat me. He first prescribed doxycycline and amoxicillian for two months....but when my latest MRI's revealed I have two new lesions (one in my neck and one in my brain....they are both small, but active) he has put me on minocycline. Doxy and amoxy don't cross the BBB. Minocycline does. The goal right now is to stay on mino for three months and have a follow up MRI on my neck to see if the new lesion goes inactive and shrinks.Lyme is a horrible bug. Very nasty, complex and extremely difficult to diagnose and treat.I would be happy to send you the information I have if you are interested in pursuing lyme as a diagnosis and everything you'll need to know and do to start down that path. Just let me know.Thanks.KenC.Hi all, Does anyone know if you can still have the scars/lesions associated with multiple sclerosis, but have lyme disease (not actual MS)? Any advice is appreciated! Thanks - Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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