janey pays for all these medicines privately.s here, in dublin. drjack lambert believes the effects of lyme disease can last far longer than current medical advice suggests. i see patients who are previously 100% well, high—functioning, and two years later they're... ..nobody can figure out what's going on with them, and they're basically told... it's put back on them. you know, "are you depressed?" you know? "why are you making up your illness? " so i think it's... even worse than being sick is being told you're not sick. do you think lyme disease is a chronic, long—term illness? i think it is, absolutely. um, and that's the debate in the medical community. most medical textbooksjust describe lyme disease as, you get a tick bite, you get an acute infection, and there, that's the end of it. but i think it actually goes on to cause chronic, persistent infection. and it's well documented in medical literature — people ignore the fact that lyme can persist for years and years if it's untreated, and then even if you treat it with sho