I had lyme about 15 yrs ago. I think they have better test now than then. Then it was the guy that was reading the test best guess as to whether it was positive or not. Anyway I was on doxy for a long time and that was when they had the earthquake in Haiti and the cholera outbreak and they sent all the doxy over there and it went to $3 a pill here.
Lyme is caused by a bacteria called a spirochete, closely related to the spirochete that causes syphilis. It goes deep is why its important to treat it quickly before it has time to get set up with its biofilms with fat around it and goes into a lipid state and stays there safe from the antibiotics waiting for the future until your immune system gets weakened, then it comes out.
If your body is already polluted with it and you start taking antibiotics you make become worse off and think the antibiotics are making you sick, when in reality it may be a herxheimer reaction, which is when the bad stuff dies off it dumps rotting stuff into your blood which has ammonia and other junk in it and thus makes you sick.
At the time I discovered that the veterinarians knew way more than any doctors I had access to and started reading every paper I could find from them.

My final assault on it included green leaf stevia soaked in vodka. Stevia will not absorb into your body, that is why it don't make you fat. The alcohol lets it absorb into the gut. Couldn't say that for sure that cured me or if I was just getting over it anyway. Hopefully I didn't (This word is unacceptable on Trapperman) my soul with the alcohol and I lived to repent, lol.

Well since Lyme can be contracted again and again, maybe it should be plural!
I hear too many Fayette gypsies calling it Lymes. And Bordetella: Portobello. And Seresto collars ; Sargento…….I’m like “thats CHEESE “