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Why Doctor Treated Patient for Lyme – Even When His Test Was Negative

https://danielcameronmd.com/treated-lyme-negative-test/

Why I Treated Him for Lyme—Even When His Test Was Negative

Posted By: Dr. Daniel Cameron
May 13, 2025

Patients Deserve an Explanation

One of the most common—and most important—questions I hear from patients is:
“If my Lyme test is negative, why are you still treating me?”

It’s a fair question. And if you’re asking it, you deserve a clear and compassionate answer. The truth is, when it comes to Lyme disease, test results don’t always tell the full story.

Let’s break down why.

Lyme Disease Testing Isn’t Always Reliable

The standard test used to diagnose Lyme disease is called the two-tier system. It includes an ELISA screening test followed by a Western blot if the first result is positive. But this system is far from perfect—especially when the infection is in its early or late stages.

Here’s what you should know:

  • Early in the infection, your body may not have produced enough antibodies yet to trigger a positive result
  • Some patients never produce detectable antibodies at all
  • Co-infections like Babesia or Bartonella are not picked up by this test
  • Many rashes don’t appear in the textbook “bulls-eye” pattern—or don’t appear at all
So yes—you can absolutely have Lyme disease, even if your test is negative. And unfortunately, this is more common than many realize.

In Medicine, We Don’t Wait for Disease to Get Worse

In most areas of healthcare, we don’t wait for a serious event before we start treatment.

  • We don’t wait for a stroke to treat high blood pressure
  • We don’t wait for vision loss to manage diabetes
  • We don’t wait for full organ failure to address chronic kidney disease

We act early—because we know that early treatment improves outcomes. So why does Lyme disease often get treated differently?

When it comes to Lyme, many patients are told to “wait and see”—even when the symptoms are clear and distressing.

Waiting Is Not a Neutral Decision

Here’s what I tell my patients:
Waiting is not harmless. It’s a medical decision with consequences.

Delaying treatment can allow symptoms to worsen. It can allow the infection to persist or spread. In some cases, patients who were told to wait eventually end up with a label: Post-Treatment Lyme Disease Syndrome (PTLDS)—a condition where symptoms linger long after the initial infection was treated, or in some cases, never properly treated at all.

What if we had treated earlier? Could we have prevented months—or even years—of suffering?

In many cases, the answer is yes.

Clinical Judgment Is Not Guesswork

When I decide to treat someone for Lyme disease despite a negative test, it’s not a random decision. It’s based on:

• The full pattern of your symptoms

• Your medical history

• Your response to prior treatments

• Known or likely tick exposure

• And experience with thousands of Lyme patients

This is called clinical judgment. It’s a core part of good medical practice. I don’t ignore science—I apply it in context. Because Lyme doesn’t always follow the rules, and neither should we when those rules are failing real people.

You Know When Something Feels Wrong

I’ve met patients who’ve been told their symptoms are “just stress” or “hormonal” or “all in their head.” But they know their bodies. They’ve tracked their fatigue, their joint pain, their cognitive changes. They’ve seen something shift—and they’re right to speak up about it.

Many of those patients improve once treatment begins, even if their test results never confirmed the diagnosis. That’s not luck. That’s Lyme disease showing up in real life—even when it doesn’t show up in the lab.

It’s Time to Rethink How We Treat Lyme

We’re in a new era of medicine. Patients are more informed, more proactive, and more in tune with their own health than ever before. But too often, our Lyme diagnostic standards are stuck in the past—waiting for certainty while people lose months or years of their lives to untreated illness.

We need to bring clinical judgment back into focus. We need to listen more, wait less, and treat Lyme disease with the urgency it deserves.

Final Thoughts

If you’ve been told your test is negative, but you’re still struggling with symptoms—please know this:
You’re not imagining it. You’re not overreacting. And you’re not alone.

In my practice, I treat the whole patient—not just the lab result. Because when it comes to Lyme, early treatment can change everything.

Want to learn more? Follow my blog series for more insights on Lyme disease diagnosis and care—or reach out to my office if you’re looking for answers.
You deserve to be heard.

Related Articles:

Relying on a negative Lyme disease test can prove deadly

Don’t wait for a positive Lyme disease test

Can’t trust single dose of doxycycline to prevent Lyme disease

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**Comment**

A very needed article with crucial information for all to understand.

Testing for Lyme/MSIDS is abysmal.  Clinical judgement is required; however, doctors receive little training for tick-borne infections and whatever training they do receive is antiquated and biased.  The fact the needle hasn’t budged in 40 years is proof of this fact.

Dr. Cameron is an example of an independent doctor who could save your life.  He’s also a Lyme-literate doctor who has studied under ILADS and who has years of experience treating this.  Like many of his colleagues, he’s been attacked by the state medical board – which is common for these doctors because they do not partake in the globalist idea for ‘consensus-based’ medicine – which turns doctors into robots who blindly follow dictates from bureaucrats who are profiting from conflicts of interests including patents, drugs, and other metabolomics. 

Due to the horrific lack of education on all things Lyme/MSIDS, there is a parallel group to the tyrannical IDSA (Infectious Diseases Society of America) called ILADS (International Lyme and Associated Diseases Society) which holds their own medical conferences to educate doctors on what is happening in reality with Lyme/MSIDS and through independent, global research that the IDSA simply ignores or maligns. Their next conference, “The Complexity of Lyme: Diagnosing and Treating Tick-Borne and Related Diseases,” is June 7-8 in Philadelphia.

Our conference will include:

  • Introduction to diagnosing and treating vector-borne diseases
  • Case discussions with experts
  • Advanced topics in clinical treatments such as PANS/PANDAS, Mold toxicity, MCAS, supportive natural therapies and more.
  • Exhibitors showcasing medical services
  • CME credit available

The conference is open to healthcare professionals. Students enrolled in a medical degree program and PhD candidates conducting Lyme-related research are also eligible to attend and qualify for discounted rates. Email conference@ilads.org for more information.

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Lyme, research, Testing, Treatment

‘Must Hear’ Dr. Hatfill Interview

http://  Approx. 1 Hour

Dr. Steven Hatfill Blows Whistle on COVID Treatments, Gene Therapy Injections, and Research Fraud

“They lied!”

Podcast by Dana Parish

May, 2025

This is one of the most shocking interviews I’ve ever done. Dr. Steven Hatfill, renowned virologist, bioweapons expert, author, and senior scientific adviser to HHS, joins me to reveal the debacle behind COVID, the ‘vaccine,’ early treatments, and what really happened behind the scenes during the pandemic.

Hatfill was wrongfully accused of the anthrax attacks in the early 2000s and later exonerated, earning a multi-million dollar settlement from the US Government. But that didn’t stop him from stepping back into the fire. During the first Trump administration, he became a fierce advocate for early COVID treatment while the mainstream medical establishment tried to silence him.

In this episode, he lays out the evidence on how COVID was bioengineered, early treatments were suppressed, the vaccines were entirely misrepresented, and much more.

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**Comment**

No, you are not losing your mind.  I’ve posted this podcast before here:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2025/05/14/study-confirms-covid-shots-laced-with-cancer-causing-dna/

I just felt it important enough to repost as some might have missed it.

And you don’t want to miss this one.

Dr. Hatfill answers all of Parish’s questions humbly and honestly.  I’m happy to report that everything posted on this website on the COVID chapter aligns with what Dr. Hatfill says in this interview.  I am indebted to doctors and researchers who shared prolifically on Linkedin early on.  Many of these experts are retired or not employed by the government and could speak freely.  Unfortunately, one by one, Linked in kicked these truth-tellers off the platform until one day I too was ‘disappeared.’  

Shame on platforms for censoring experts sharing information that could have saved lives.

The entire COVID chapter was mishandled from the start and there’s many people and organizations who need to be brought to justice over the fraud, deceit, and damage done in virtually every area.

And now, the IPAK-EDU White Paper 2025-ENDEUA states that when corrected efficacy curves and suppressed risks are taken into account, the mRNA covid shots fail the EUA standard.  The shots were based upon interim data from large-scale Phase III trials. The legal standard under §564 of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act requires that a product may be authorized for emergency use only if it is “reasonable to believe” that the product “may be effective” against a life-threatening condition, that the known and potential benefits outweigh the known and potential risks, and that no adequate alternatives are available. This report demonstrates, through a rigorous retrospective analysis, that these criteria were never met.

Trust me when I say, you need to hear this interview.  Please also share this widely, particularly to those who are still in the dark or need to hear it from an ‘expert.’  Hatfill knows his stuff.

For articles on the many topics Hatfill covers:

COVID is lab made:

Suppression of early, successful treatment:

How spike protein behaves in the body:

Is the shot gene therapy?  YES

Why was mRNA the government choice for COVID?

    • There are 9,613 patents licensed to giants in biotech and the US government
    • BARDA and DARPA have had a torrid love affair with mRNA for decades
    • A retrospective cohort study found the US government invested at least $31.9B to develop, produce, and purchase mRNA covid-19 shots, including sizable investments in the three decades before the pandemic through March 2022. 
    • While the study claims “millions of lives were saved,” the truth is the experimental, COVID gene therapy injections saved ZERO lives.

Links between COVID shots & Cancer

Nasal sprays to prevent COVID:

Persecution of doctors & health professionals who defied the global narrative:

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Activism, research, Treatment, vaccines, Viruses

FDA’s War on America’s Health

https://www.midwesterndoctor.com/p/the-fdas-war-on-americas-health?

The FDA’s War On America’s Health

Why do so many innovative therapies never see the light of day

A Midwestern Doctor
Apr 17, 2025
Story at a Glance:

•The FDA was established in 1906 in response to public concern over unsafe food and drugs, such as spoiled food and counterfeit products. However, food industry lobbyists gradually gained influence, leading to the removal of the agency’s original leader. As a result, numerous harmful food additives were granted “generally recognized as safe” (GRAS) status and continue to be used today.

•In 1962, the FDA was given broad powers to oversee drug safety following the thalidomide incident. Unfortunately, the new regulations created strict standards for drug efficacy that were often selectively enforced, benefiting the pharmaceutical industry. Unfortunately, the FDA increasingly targeted natural therapies, which led to many being erased from history.

•Despite numerous attempts to reform the agency, issues of inefficiency and bias within the FDA persist. This article examines these challenges and suggests potential reforms to improve the agency’s role in safeguarding public health.

For most of my life, I’ve observed the FDA belligerently suppress natural treatments and any unorthodox therapy which threatens the medical monopoly while simultaneously railroading through a variety of unsafe and ineffective drugs regardless of how much public protest the agency meets.

(See link for article and videos)

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**Comment**

Please share and record this important history or it will be scrubbed and lost forever.

Like most government agencies, the FDA began well and good in the 1800’s due to unscrupulous food producers as well as medicines with secret ingredients like opium and alcohol.  But, even from the get-go, the food and pharmaceutical industries were powerful and fought as lobbyists using legal tactics. The first Director of the Bureau of Chemistry, and thus the fist head of the FDA, actually resigned realizing he could do more as a private citizen than within government.  

The article goes into life-saving treatments vilified by the FDA as well as ‘vaccine’ cover-ups, and disastrous drug approvals.

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Lyme Disease With Decrease in Reflexes

https://danielcameronmd.com/lyme-disease-hyporeflexia/

Lyme Disease with Weakness and Hyporeflexia

Posted By: Laurie Martin
April 22, 2025

This case involved a 25-year-old woman who experienced progressive numbness and tingling, beginning in her torso and eventually affecting her entire body. Over a four-week period, her neurological symptoms worsened, including a decrease in her reflexes (hyporeflexia), prompting her to seek care at a neurology clinic. Notably, she lacked the hallmark features typically associated with Lyme disease.

Instead, her clinical presentation was dominated by decreased reflexes (hyporeflexia) and sensory disturbances. Symptoms initially localized to the hypogastric region gradually radiated to her back and extremities.

“The numbness and tingling began on the right side of her stomach and radiated to her back and later spread to her entire body. The tingling was not associated with any burning or pins-and-needles sensation,” the authors wrote.¹

Alarming Progression of Symptoms

The symptoms significantly impaired her daily functioning, including her ability to care for her child.

“She especially became alarmed when she could not hold her toddler anymore and ended up dropping the child secondary to her numbness and tingling,” the authors reported.

Neurological Findings

A motor examination revealed:

  • Decreased muscle tone, more pronounced in the upper limbs (3/5 strength) than in the lower limbs (4/5 strength)
  • Hyporeflexia in the biceps, triceps, patellar, and Achilles tendons
Diagnostic Workup

A lumbar puncture revealed an elevated protein concentration in cerebrospinal fluid (148 mg/dL; normal range: 15–60 mg/dL), suggesting central nervous system involvement. The diagnosis of Lyme disease was confirmed via Western blot testing.

Comparison to Logigian and Steere’s Findings

This case contrasts with findings from the 1990 study by Logigian and Steere published in The New England Journal of Medicine, which evaluated 27 patients with chronic neurologic Lyme disease. In that study, 25 of 27 patients (93%) had normal CSF results, including normal protein levels and no pleocytosis.²

This discrepancy underscores a key point: while CSF abnormalities may support the diagnosis of neurologic Lyme disease, their absence does not rule it out. The variability in neurological presentations highlights the importance of clinical judgment.

Treatment and Outcome

The patient was initially treated with intravenous ceftriaxone for three days, followed by oral doxycycline. Her response to treatment was both rapid and substantial. Upon discharge:

• She regained full spontaneous movement in all extremities.

• Her gait had normalized.

“At the time of discharge, the patient was able to move all extremities spontaneously and ambulate with a normal gait,” the authors noted.

Four Key Discussion Points
1. Neurological Manifestations of Lyme Disease

This case reinforces the importance of recognizing the diverse neurological presentations of Lyme disease. As shown in the Logigian and Steere study, the absence of CSF abnormalities is not uncommon in chronic neurologic Lyme. Clinicians should consider Lyme disease even when classic signs are absent.

2. Role of Lumbar Puncture in Diagnosis

Although this patient had elevated CSF protein levels, many patients with neurologic Lyme disease may have normal CSF results. This highlights the need to use a combination of clinical history, physical exam, and serological testing to make the diagnosis.

3. Timely Diagnosis and Treatment

Despite a delay in diagnosis, the patient responded well to antibiotics. The treatment regimen—IV ceftriaxone followed by oral doxycycline—is effective in managing Lyme neuroborreliosis.

4. Impact on Quality of Life

The patient’s neurological symptoms significantly affected her ability to care for her child. Early recognition and treatment are vital to restoring function and preserving quality of life.

Conclusion

Timely diagnosis and treatment of Lyme neuroborreliosis can lead to excellent outcomes, even in patients with atypical presentations. This case emphasizes the importance of clinical awareness and early intervention in restoring function and providing reassurance.

Related Articles:

Lyme disease leads to muscle weakness of the leg and constipation

Atypical symptoms of Lyme disease: numbness and abdominal wall weakness

References
  1. Semy R, et al. Lyme Disease Presenting With Interesting Neurological Features of Weakness and Hyporeflexia: A Case Report.
  2. Logigian EL, Kaplan RF, Steere AC. Chronic neurologic manifestations of Lyme disease. N Engl J Med. 1990;323:1438–1444.

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Lyme, research, Treatment

“What is Happening Here is Criminal and If You Don’t Believe Me, Ask Anyone With Lyme.”

https://www.change.org/p/the-us-senate-calling-for-a-congressional-investigation-of-the-cdc-idsa-and-aldf/u/33514992?

“What is happening here is criminal and if you don’t believe me, ask ANYONE with Lyme.”

Carl Tuttle
Hudson, NH, United States
May 11, 2025

All Tuttle family members experienced this travesty so everything you are about to read in this Facebook post is true and it has been ongoing for three decades. It is criminal and all a result of the rush to create a vaccine. A chronic relapsing seronegative disease does not fit the business model of patent royalties, vaccine development and pharmaceutical profits. So deny the chronically infected and your patent royalties continue to reap benefits. 

In other words, patent royalties and pharmaceutical profits over lifesaving care.

Those who have colluded to suppress evidence of antibiotic resistance (chronic Lyme) should be prosecuted and sent to jail.

Everyone happy with the way our Public Health Officials handled Covid?? The sick and disabled Lyme community has been SHOUTING from the rooftops for decades!!! Everyone knows someone who has been horribly affected by Lyme disease… SHARE WIDELY!!!

Kegin Freedom

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I’ve tried explaining this a few times and I won’t stop until people get it. This isn’t like cancer or any other disease where I can go to a Dr that’s covered by my insurance and receive treatment. What is happening here is criminal and if you don’t believe me, ask ANYONE with Lyme.

First, you have to get a Dr to agree to do a Lyme test. Don’t ask me why but they don’t like doing them. Most Dr’s believe Lyme is extremely rare. It’s not btw so if they agree to do it, great. Now you’re gonna go home for up to 10 days while you wait on this test. In the meantime, you’re gonna be sick as hell. You’re gonna be so tired you can’t get up. You’re gonna be dizzy even while lying down. You’re gonna see floaters in your eyes 24/7. When you get up to pee, your legs are gonna weigh 500 pounds. You’re gonna feel like your insides are on fire. You’re gonna not have much of an appetite and you’re gonna possibly lose weight. Now imagine having Ebola and you can’t get any meds because hey, you’re waiting on that test. Now imagine that test comes back with two bands. They are looking for antibodies to Borrelia. Ok, so you got two bands. Dr tells you it’s negative. The CDC says you have to have FIVE bands. You go home and you don’t get better, but hey Dr says you don’t have Lyme. There is no reason to have five bands other than outright lies and denying Lyme exists. Any bands mean you have Borrelia. Now there’s IGG AND IGM. IGM means you have active Borrelia in your blood. IGG means past infection. Drs don’t even know how to read these tests. Do you get that? They don’t know. I had to educate myself. So let’s say my Dr told me I was negative and I didn’t know any better and was sent home. Do you realize what that means? That means to this day I wouldn’t know what was wrong with me. Now let’s move to the next step, let’s say the Dr believes you and says ok you have Lyme. Now you’re gonna get Doxy for a week or two. Do you understand that you can’t get better in that short amount of time? Don’t believe me? Find me one person that did. Just ONE! You can’t. It takes a minimum of 3-6 months. That’s minimum!!!! Ok, so now you’ve got your two weeks of doxy and you’re supposed to be better now. Are you getting it yet?

Now all this time you’ve probably needed IV ABX and if you’re not one of the lucky ones that got that, guess what’s happening? As you’re body is infested with Borrelia, it’s now drilled itself into your tissues. Remember I told you Borrelia is the cousin of syphillis and it’s a corkscrew shaped bacteria that is literally drilling into every tissue. Brain, heart, lungs, thyroid, etc., Now you’ve got arthritis, now you have heart problems, thyroid problems. Now you’re really sick. Guess what comes next? You start reading. You realize you’re in big trouble. You call your Dr back. They say look you’re on the Doxy so you go to two more specialists. They do more bloodwork, tests, MRI’s, CT scans, but they can’t find anything wrong with you. All the tests are great! You’re a specimen of great health!

If you’re still with me, hang in there, this is where it gets good. So you have enough sense still to start researching, and you realize you probably have other diseases the tick gave you called co infections (Babesia, Bartonella, etc.,) You try to get your Dr to test for those. Well, maybe insurance will cover that. Maybe not. So here’s where Lyme _ _ _ _ _ you every which way. Your immune system has now shut down. Just like AIDS so now you’re lucky if you show up positive for these things because you’re body isn’t making antibodies. You still following me? Here’s where it gets good. You start hearing about Lyme Dr’s. You’re like great! Finally! _ _ _ _ _ _ _ help! But you call and they say cash only. We don’t accept insurance. You’re like what kind of nightmare am I in? Here’s where you’re in trouble if you don’t have the money. Now what do you do? Who’s gonna help you without being able to pay these Lyme drs. And you have to be careful, there’s a lot of Dr’s out there preying on the weak and desperate and that’s exactly what we are by this point. Even these celebrities who have millions are trying anything to get well. You haven’t seen anything like Lyme in your life! I’m tired of trying to explain what we go though. We don’t want your sympathy! We want you to care enough to change our laws! There are so many out here suffering and it should be a crime what’s happening! The testing is inaccurate. The treatment doesn’t work (that doxy for a few weeks) its not enough. Now imagine you’re this sick with Lyme (Borellia) and all these co infections. Lyme isn’t done with you yet. Now that immune system I told you about. Now anything you’ve ever had is going to come out because your immune system can’t fight it off. You ever had chicken pox? You got it now in addition to Lyme. You ever had hand, foot, and mouth. Yeah, me either but I do now because I clearly have been exposed to it probably from my kids. Ever had cold sores? You do now! Do you get it yet? What does this sound like? It sounds like AIDS doesn’t it? It sounds like an immunosuppressive person. Welp, try getting a Dr to see it that way. Now add into all that _ _ _ _ show people telling you you’re not that sick. Add into that everyday life that goes on whether you’re sick or not. Lyme has an astronomical suicide rate. Do you still need to ask why? If you know someone with Lyme, please share this post

Any questions?

Carl Tuttle
Independent Researcher
Hudson, NH

1. Lyme Disease: Call for a “Manhattan Project” to Combat the Epidemic
Raphael B. Stricker, Lorraine Johnson
Published: January 02, 2014
http://www.plospathogens.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.ppat.1003796

2. Under our Skin 5min extended trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxWgS0XLVqw

3. The Quiet Epidemic – Official Trailer (2min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4C71N290co

“In the fullness of time, the mainstream handling of Chronic Lyme Disease will be viewed as one of the most shameful episodes in the history of medicine because elements of academic medicine, elements of government, and the entire insurance industry colluded to deny a disease.”    -Kenneth B. Liegner, MD, Internal Medicine, New York

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**Comment**

Hit the nail squarely on the head.

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Activism, Lyme, Testing, Treatment