Lyme Blog Posts
How Lyme can derail your life–and what it takes to get it back
“One Tick Stopped the Clock” powerfully illustrates how Lyme disease can derail your life, as well as the herculean effort it takes to get back…
When Lyme patients must fight to be believed by doctors
By Nancy Dougherty Illness invalidation by medical professionals—sometimes called “gaslighting”—is an underappreciated and understudied problem in Lyme disease. Many Lyme disease patients complain not only…
Future of IV glutathione and B-12 shots still unsettled in California
California’s Board of Pharmacy (BOP) has been mulling a proposal to restrict access to what are called “category one sterile compounds.” Targeted elements include glutathione,…
Comparing herbal therapy to antibiotics for chronic Lyme disease
By Bill Rawls, MD Nearly 20 years ago, my life was completely disrupted by chronic Lyme disease. After multiple courses of antibiotics made me worse…
Status update on FY2025 federal Lyme funding
by Bonnie Crater, Center for Lyme Action As you can see from the table below, Congress has started working on Fiscal Year 2025 appropriations. And as…
Defend your access to essential Lyme treatments on Sept. 12
by Crystal A. Frost, PhD Sign the “Stop the BOP” petition here. The upcoming California Board of Pharmacy (BOP) meeting on September 12 presents an…
After 10 years of meticulous groundwork, biobank now yielding impressive results
“My family knows that after I die, my tissues will be donated to Lyme Disease Biobank to provide researchers with the vital material they need…
IGeneX Lyme ImmunoBlot test kit receives FDA clearance
The Lyme ImmunoBlot test first introduced by IGeneX in 2017 has been augmented. Now converted to a test kit, it has received FDA clearance. The…
From information desert to Lyme news hub: why membership matters
When my family fell into the Lyme world in 2005, there were almost no books on Amazon with “Lyme” in the title. There was little…
Dr. Dave Martz overcame an ALS death sentence with Lyme treatment
As Dave Martz lay dying, an idea serpentined around his mind and would not loosen its grip: Despite the absolute diagnosis and the insistence of…
A.I. enables a simpler, faster test for Lyme disease
By Wayne Lewis, UCLA For some unlucky people, time in the great outdoors leads to Lyme disease, an illness causing head, joint and muscle pain,…
PODCAST: Maintaining a career while managing chronic Lyme disease
By Fred Diamond When I was researching my book “Love, Hope, Lyme: What Family Members, Partners, and Friends Who Love a Chronic Lyme Survivor Need…