Guest blog by Lindsay Penkower Dear Nasty Little Nymph: You are a thief of epic proportions. You have stolen the life I once knew and loved—one where I was happy, healthy and hopeful for the future. I spent days crying in frustration as I was forced to merely listen to the... Read More »

By Susan Pogorzelski As an author, I sometimes like to think of my life in terms of words: words written, words spoken, words read. As a Lyme patient, I tend to think of life in terms of numbers: Fifteen years of misdiagnosis. A dozen doctors and specialists. Six months to find a... Read More »

The Journal of Emergency Medicine recently published an article entitled “Lyme Disease: Emergency Department Considerations.” The authors recommend using a one-time, single dose of doxycycline after a tick bite to prevent the onset of Lyme disease, despite the fact that there has... Read More »

The Disabled American Veterans, or DAV, is chartered by the United States Congress. The organization provides various kinds of assistance to disabled military veterans and their families and currently has nearly 1.3 million members.  Ruben Lee Sims, who lives in Southern... Read More »

Dr. Laurie Radovsky is a family physician in St. Paul, MN. Board-certified in family medicine, she is a member of the Academy of Integrative Health and Medicine and the International Lyme and Associated Diseases Society.  By Laurie Radovsky, MD. MYTH: You can only have Lyme... Read More »

By Lori Dennis, MA Every day, in doctors’ offices across the United States, Canada, the UK, Ireland, Amsterdam, Australia, Sweden—in 80 countries around the world—chronic Lyme disease sufferers are told that their debilitating, destructive, multi-systemic illness is nothing more... Read More »

Guest post by Dr. Jane Marke, MD Patients dealing with Lyme suffer neuro-psychiatric complications that are related directly to the illness, as well as to the emotional challenges and lack of support which often accompany infection with this insidious bacteria. Patients with Lyme... Read More »

By Sherrill Franklin  Almost 40 years have passed since the Lyme disease bacterium was identified, yet there are still no reliable diagnostics and no definitive treatments, especially for those with persistent symptoms. While Lyme disease research funding has always languished... Read More »

Dr. Elena Frid, who recently spoke at the ILADS conference in Philadelphia, shares observations about neurological presentations of Lyme disease. After finishing my training in Neurology and Clinical Neurophysiology, I opened a private neurology practice in New York City in 2011.... Read More »