Lyme disease and the fight for recognition | DW Documentary

Years of pain, paralysis and fear – without a diagnosis. For a long time, medicine seemed to ignore Lyme disease. The film accompanies several patients as they fight for an accurate diagnosis — and the right treatment.

Many Lyme disease patients suffer for a long time before receiving a diagnosis. Their symptoms, including pain and paralysis, often seem to indicate other diseases, like MS. The fact that they have been bitten by a tick that carried Lyme disease often only emerges after many examinations. This is exactly what happened to two of the film’s subjects: a girl from Brooklyn, NY and a researcher at Duke University. Both decided to take matters into their own hands and began carrying out independent research into their symptoms. Both ended up in the middle of a controversial medical debate and found themselves having to fight hard for adequate treatment.

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32 comments

  1. The government literally creates Lyme disease with a secret biological weapon research facility which is why doctors are soo against anything having to do with diagnosing it, you have evidence and proof for suing the federal government if you are smart enough and diligent with your research.

  2. Why didn't anyone know about Lyme disease until relatively recently if people have been living in the area since the mid 1600's? It doesn't make sense. Must have been a mistakenly released bioweapon or something.

  3. My brother got it in his yard and has had serious side effects for a while and terrible treatment from doctors and doctors don’t know what to do

  4. How can something like conversion syndrom even be a thing in a filed that's supposed to be science based. I don't know what it is so it has to be X. Missing proof for something is not proof for something else…
    I can't understand why the medical field still thinks like this. Again and again we find new diseases. People that got told it must be psychological because the doctors didn't test for the right thing or the disease was still unknown. At some point allergies got diagnosed as psychological, because at that point the disease wasn't known…
    The psychological effect this threatment has on people, causing psychological damage to people who allready suffer from debilitating diseases, instead of doing what they are supposed to do, helping.
    In too many cases what in the past was called possessed by the devil is now called psychological by the medical field…
    I dont understand how a field that exists for so long can't learn and still repeats this mistake after hundreds of years.
    To be clear: Yes psychological diseases existand the field is important.

  6. когда уже избавятся от паразитов в виде комаров, клещей, клопов, мошки и прочих? какая от них польза?

  9. Definitely not a usual well researched video by DW it's ok u get to get some profits by smashing some imaginary enemies. Missing Differential Diagnosis of Soft tick, Hard Tick, Head louse borne viral and bacterial disease even by Borrelia itself and Multiple cause of Even Lyme Bacteria itself and there are already disease with literally named Relapsing Fever a DDX to be considered and In CDC test part It's 2 step approach 1.Screening and Then Confirmation via Western Blot from BLOOD, CSF, SEROLOGY TESTING, ANTIBODY TITRES, BSK CULTURE most specific, PCR most sensitive, DARK FIELD, PHASE CONTRAST, SYNOVIAL FLUID, SKIN BIOPSY, ETC. (didn't find any of these mentions)(Serology is already with high false positives so not useful in genneral practice by itself)guys u can watch it by yourself if u are so scare from big old medicine a hard analogy to grab with big pharma yes there are power structures and no science isn't dogmatic, regarding that chronic word please DW research more just Google it what comparison is going on 1975_2024 people evolve, policy evolve, false positives evolve, bacteria antigens evolve is the fact in evading body immunity, you didn't even Mentioned that. I think its disservice to public health outreach and cause more harm by spreading misinformation regarding evidence based medicine. Please leave such personal attacks on some few scientists, file complaints if there is wrong doing and file complaints with CDC if there are gaps not US CDC are there in Europe, India, Canada too, why haven't you shown what this other world collaboraters think and what they advised. Seriously disappointed after years of watching and researching every interviews, every person featured, every research article and u guys didn't even went across border like every other documentary video u guys work on, then I think editorial team might have went for a chai break with some Spiritual Blud. What's antibiotics please name one which u guys didn't there are multiple classes of antibiotics each with different use in brain in heart in joints in skin all missed. Did you compared if money spent by this alternate pseudo science chronic word organization is going to public health I don't think so and regarding that 31 34 thing guy grow up get some new test from different company CDC doesn't have any monopoly on numbers, please grow up and are there any antibiotics abuse and misuse at such healing centre shown in the video or are they given some totally unscientific in name of attacking science for new false hope models of downtrodden and emotionally devastated people by few doctors misdiagnosing or not early treatment and detection. No I mean it's good you made it now medical health anthropology can examine bio politics, bio medicine, pseudo science, hyper treatment laws, death threats, personal disease making, frauds, etc criticality will lay it down with our of the Box ethical sociology in social disease and it's identity formation 😅. I would avoid saying recognition is what we seeking here publicly but in general 20-40 people yes we feel social support is necessary. Avoiding capitalism all together in video and rooting for weird angry socialism for what just recognition of chronic or is it the alternative capital by building enemy doctors and making own money through alt meds in antibiotics market for long term gains as insurance won't cover fiction and with chronic u need chronic treatment which is questionable and not consensus around world not usa and also selling for alternative meds via lobbying the money for actual research.

  10. LYME IS A PARASITE – NOT BACTERIA! IT IS MODIFIED SYPHILLIS / CAME FROM PLUM ISLAND.
    GOVERNMENTS ARE COMPLICIT. ALL TO HURT YOU AND TO MAKE MONEY. MEDICAL CABAL NOT ONLY MAKES MONEY FROM IT – JUST LIKE CANCER, MS, ALS, HIV ETC…. 95% OF DOCS ARE STUPID CRIMINALS POCKETTING THE MONEY. THE PARASITE IS EXTREMELY DIFFULT TO EXTERMINATE COS IT IS A PROCESS. THEY HAD THE CURE FOR IT AT THE SAME TIME THEY MODIFIED THE PARASITE. IT'S CALLED HYGROMYCIN – CURRENTLY OFF THE MARKET OF COURSE.

  11. This is an excellent documentary. I knew there was controversy but never understood it. Thank you so much for this documentary.

  12. Cycling in France in 1993, on returning to Britain I found some ticks on my body and was severely ill for some days. About 2 or so years latter and experiencing lots of random pain I was diagnosed with fibromyalgia. I was ill with this for years, sometimes high dose magnesium helped. Then in 2020 with a serious heart infection I was on very, very powerful antibiotics for months. After that, my pain symptoms were basically gone. I think I had undiagnosed lyme disease which lead to longer term post viral effects which were resolved by the powerful antibiotics I was put on.

  15. DW DOCUMENTARY please do a documentary on the devastating damage done to people by fluroquinalone antibiotics. My life has been ruined by this class of antibiotics. So many of the symptoms mimic Lyme.

  18. Now please make a documentary about the Lyme disease in Europe. So many doctors here are saying "we don't have serious Lyme disease in Europe, that's American problem" and I alone know three Europeans whose lives have been ruined by it.

  19. Another disease that was/is gaslit by the medical world that causes suffering and disability. I've had ME for 54 years and experienced the same. It's tragic

  20. I was stricken with tickborne infection in Denmark. It went away in the beginning,and then came back really really bad. They are just as inadequate at diagnosing and treating here as well. And weirdly enough, just as controversial. People "flee" to Poland and Germany to get treatment. Over three years i treated myself and am fine, but i do still get waves of symptomps,which i do treat. I basically was pushed to be my own witch 😂. ( I am a forager,which explaines both the initial tickbite,but also the porthole to search for the treatment. In my case,a mix of shortterm strong antibiotics,and even stronger herbs and roots and concoctions. Im good at the moment

  23. Once got it after hiking in the woods with shorts. Luckily I noticed that characteristic red and white circle pattern and got antibiotics. A good tip to avoid contracting it is to pull your socks over your pants whenever you walk in an area where the disease is present.

  24. I lost many years to this disease and know all too well how sophisticated this bacteria is. Previously I was healthy and extremely energetic when suddenly I was paralyzed by a mysterious illness. The doctors couldn`t diagnose me and I was even called a hypochondriac. Finally, after 7 years, a dermatologist diagnosed me with Lyme and even after antibiotic treatment, I felt better, but I was not cured. I soon discovered the controversy surrounding this disease and knew I couldn`t rely on doctors and had to fight it alone. I bought two microscopes and honestly, these bacteria can be found in sweat and easily observed under a microscope. I do not believe that antibiotics alone will cure this disease and I can only say that this disease must be fought will all possible means.

  26. HELLO

    We can just take what happened with COVID, Covid was OK bc it was profitable.

    You know what’s not profitable

    Lyme disease.

    The end.

  27. Late stage lyme-disease can not be cured. I was diagnosed 2 years after symptoms began. I have been on 29 to 30 antibiotics and numerous supplements. I still suffer from abnormal fatigue. I am now diagnosed with ME/CFS.
    I think the confusion comes with early stage treatment or late stage treatment. I saw no rash and no tick. I had a positive lyme test.

  29. I remember going to my partner's family reunion in TX back in '18. There was a spot on the property where people could spray bug repellent on their legs. What I specifically remember is the large amount of cans of that bug repellent and how people were pretty much saturating their pants with it.

  30. Borrellia is one of those organisms you wonder if evolution phoned ahead to make it as interesting as possible.

  31. Wow! Another fascinating documentary from DW. They just keep getting better and better. About topics which you never thought you had any interest in. Great work guys and good luck to all the people featured in the doc.

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