Letter to Greenwich Time editor

Kennebec Journal - Augusta,ME,USA
Thank you for the article "Coping with Lyme" (July 23). I too have Lyme disease.
I went untreated for more than a year because doctors relied on unreliable Lyme disease tests. Eventually, I had to go out of state for treatment.
Because I went untreated for so long, I have neurological complications that are difficult to treat.
If I learned anything from this debilitating disease it is that people must be their own best advocate.
I have run into many people who say they were "tested" for Lyme disease and their tests came back negative.
Those who continue to have symptoms should learn about the disease and find a doctor who will make a diagnoses based on symptoms, not on unreliable tests.

Cora Prentice
Whitefield
cpdanderhill@msn.com