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Hopefully you can access the attched article from the recent Lyme Disease.org newsletter. The only relevance is the similarity in medical malpractice for RLS and Lyme disease. The author has a little fun at the medical profession's expense. And his discussion of the medical term "syndrome" does strike close to home for RLS.

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Rings so many *alarm* bells. He's spot on !Gawd help anyone with both RLS & Lyme's. They don't stand a chance.

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Ouchagain in reply toJoolsg

Hadn't thought about the perception of 'syndromes' before. Time to change the name of RLS to RLD and see if being called a 'disease' wakes up the DDs of the article?

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707twitcher in reply toJoolsg

Unfortunately, that's me. I'm hoping to collect one more syndrome to complete my Bingo card 😅 (The good news is my Lyme experience prepared me for RLS - self-management required; can't rely on doctors.)

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Joolsg in reply to707twitcher

It's tragic though. I see what ME/CFS and Long Covid patients are going through. All horribly familiar.

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