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I took Doxycycline which is the recommended antibiotic against Lyme disease. There is no empirical evidence that taking antibiotics for longer than two weeks helps against Lyme.

Citation needed... THERE, I finally found it http://cid.oxfordjournals.org/content/31/4/1107.long Okay, this was an extreme case. I was mistaken, the woman took the antibiotics for a longer time and intravenously. However, it's still true that the risk of fungal infection is increased by a substantial amount.

Here is another case displaying the dangerous effects of long-term administration of antibiotics which resulted in death http://cid.oxfordjournals.org/content/51/3/369.full (but not because of fungi)

This way of treating Lyme Disease literally kills people, I am not exaggerating.




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