Comment by skocznymroczny
4 years ago
I don't know about how common it is, but my understanding is that tests for Lyme are fairly unreliable, leading to many people self-diagnosing themselves with Lyme, kind of like we're seeing now with 'long covid'.
The test detects antibodies. There's only so much to tell from that. What symptoms you'll have, when you'll have them, if you had it a long time ago, if you are infected but haven't produced the antibodies yet... these are things we can't tell just from the presence/absence of antibodies.
That's what he said also