Lyme Blog Posts
Patient story: Lyme disease deserves more than “mediocre attention”
By Casey Fillian Thirty-seven years ago, I went to summer camp in a heavily wooded area of New Jersey. I started coming down with odd…
No Lyme in Mississippi? Wrong! Plus co-infections and alpha-gal too.
Cortney McCord delivered the following public comment at the Feb.28 meeting of the federal Tick-Borne Disease Working Group. My name is Cortney McCord. I’m a…
Have we heard from a doctor yet? Is someone going to be able to help me?
Jody Hudson delivered the following remarks as public comment to the federal Tick-Borne Disease Working Group on Feb.28. Have we heard from a doctor yet?…
Center for Lyme Action offers recommendations to TBD Working Group
Bonnie Crater gave the following public comment at the February 28 meeting of the federal Tick-Borne Disease Working Group. I’m Bonnie Crater from Portola Valley,…
Being shot at in combat not as bad as mistreatment for Lyme disease
Col. Nicole Malachowski delivered the following public comment to the February 28, 2022, meeting of the federal Tick-borne Disease Working Group. I’m Colonel Nicole Malachowski,…
Why Congress must enact medical insurance coverage laws for Lyme patients
By Jennifer Barrett As a third-year law student, I recently wrote a law journal article entitled: It’s About Lyme: Why Congress Must Enact Medical Insurance…
Lyme and Babesia–a potent combination that’s frequently missed
By Wendy Adams, Bay Area Lyme Foundation Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last few years, you’ll have learned that tick-borne diseases…
Can chronic Lyme be cured? Dr. Christine Green answers your questions.
Christine Green, MD, is a Stanford-trained, board-certified family medicine physician with 30 years of experience treating patients with tick-borne illness. On the board of LymeDisease.org,…
Problematic Lyme testing shortchanges patients, especially children
by Rosalie Greenberg, MD Many scientists and physicians agree that there are important issues concerning present Lyme disease (LD) testing. In this post, I will…
What can chronic Lyme disease teach us about long COVID?
By Daniel Kinderlehrer, MD One-third of patients who were sick with COVID-19 have come down with chronic symptoms, now known as long COVID or long…
The heartbreaking connection between personality changes and Lyme disease
By Nicole Danielle Bell Early in our relationship, my husband, Russ, and I never argued. We were both engineers, so our disagreements felt more logical…
Answers still needed about possible biowarfare connection to Lyme disease
By Pat Smith Forty-six years after a mother alerted public health about an unknown disease affecting her Connecticut neighborhood, patients still await answers about Lyme…