Lyme Blog Posts
Why Lyme disease news coverage falls way short
By David Michael Conner As so many people who live with Lyme disease will attest, just about everything Lyme related can be complex, difficult to…
Why do officials continue to deny the reality of gestational Lyme?
by Sue Burke Faber I’ll never forget a couple of years ago when our whole crazy Lyme journey began. I had been diagnosed here in…
Lyme, Mitochondria and the Power of the Heart
By Shona Curley I’m sure many of you Lyme Warriors know that Lyme disease, and really all chronic illness, is at heart a disease of…
From wheelchair to walking–one woman’s Lyme disease story
By Tera Banks I became sick with Lyme in 2012. I was bitten by a mosquito in Melrose Park, Illinois, and shortly afterwards came down…
These three myths about PANS/PANDAS are ruining lives
The following is written by a 23-year-old woman who writes the Dreaming Panda blog, about her experiences coping with Lyme disease and PANS/PANDAS—an autoimmune condition…
Lyme disease in Ireland: ‘I became a shadow, a virtual recluse’
By Kerry Lawless Looking back, it’s easy to see the signs, to recognize the symptoms, to know that it was Lyme disease. But in 2007,…
It shouldn’t take this long to diagnose Lyme disease
By Nancy Marie Allen On a warm August night in 2004, my husband and I went to a local AMVETS hall to celebrate a friend’s…
With unexpected death, autopsies should look for Lyme carditis
By Phyllis Mervine A friend of mine died last week in her sleep. She was only 49. She wasn’t my close friend, but she was a…
What “balance” really means for the TBD Working Group
Phyllis Mervine, Founder and President of LymeDisease.org, submitted the following public comment to the federal Tick-Borne Disease Working Group. Towards the end of the Tick-Borne…
Using your mind to help fight Lyme disease from within
By Shona Curley Before Lyme, when something didn’t go my way, I stressed out. Like most healthy people, I was perfectly functional that way. I…
An anthropologist’s view of Lyme disease and suicide
By Aaron J. Jackson It’s been almost a year since I tried to kill myself. As a doctoral student living in the leafy suburb of…
Why I can’t retire: too much Lyme work still to be done
By Phyllis Mervine I was just cleaning up files on my computer and found this series of vignettes I wrote 10 years ago. I’ll be…