[blam]

"Put everybody with high CRP on doxycycline or similar benign anti-biotics. Some docs advocate this for BOTH rheumatoid arthritis as well as heart disease, believing that certain microbacteria cause the inflammation in joints as well as arteries: "

Could Lyme Disease cause this inflamation?

[spunkets]

" Could Lyme Disease cause this inflamation?"

If the B. burgdorfi(sp) aren't killed right away during the initial primary stage of the disease, the joint attack is quite severe. The bug's a spirochete and like syphilis, the disease has 3 stages.