Lyme Blog Posts
How I healed from Lyme disease and mast cell activation syndrome
By Savannah Marcum After six long years of being deeply chronically ill — suffering from Lyme disease, a handful of co-infections and mast cell activation…
Tick bite prevention is the aim of “Tickology” video series
Tick bite prevention is a big issue in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, which includes Cape Cod. The region is heavily populated with ticks and the infections…
Pilates-based tools to heal Lyme disease neck pain
by Shona Curley For 20 years, I have been teaching Pilates—a gentle method of exercise that promotes flexibility and strength. I became interested in using…
Lyme Carditis: Heart Block and Other Complications of Lyme Disease
by Adrian Baranchuk, MD, FACC ,FRCPC, FCCS, and Cynthia Yeung, BSc The incidence of Lyme disease, a tick-borne bacterial infection, is rapidly increasing in North…
Designing an environment for those “displaced” by Lyme disease
by Sylvia Janicki On a balmy early-summer day in 2014, in the bucolic Mississippi countryside, I found a tick burrowed into the side of my…
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…