Mistaken Identity: Many Diagnoses are Frequently Misattributed to Lyme Disease

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User Ordinary-Standard668, in the Lyme Disease (and related tick-borne infections) subreddit, 31 Jan 2026

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34861197/...

User Mamajuju1217, in the All things Bravo & Real Housewives! subreddit, 20 Sep 2025

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34861197/ https://igenex.com/tick-talk/lyme-vs-autoimmune-disease-similarities-differences-and-m…

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S000293432...

User mud-monkey, in the AskIreland subreddit, 02 May 2025

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0002934321007920

The confusion is because in untreated Lyme, it can...

User LymeScience, in the FunctionalMedicine subreddit, 11 Dec 2023

The confusion is because in **untreated Lyme**, it can persist in the knee (or rarely another large joint like an elbow) to…

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