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 understand, and sometimes even self-contradictory. This includes how Lyme disease is reported. As global warming drives tick... Read More »

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 Canada with positive two-tier tests for a European strain of Lyme and one of our daughters also tested positive by Canadian serology for European... Read More »

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 the mitochondria. What not enough of us know is that we can support mitochondrial healing from home, for free, with intentional, deep relaxation,... Read More »

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 with what the doctors here told me was the summer flu or virus. I started to experience neck pain and horrible fatigue. After three days of this... Read More »

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 that can be triggered by such infections as strep, Lyme disease, and others. By Iris Ainsley In 2012, when I... Read More »

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, I had never heard of Lyme disease. It was something we still thought of as rare. Not as something you can pick up anywhere in Ireland. I got... Read More »

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 birthday. While we enjoyed the music and food, I knew something was wrong as I began to feel increasing pain in my legs. I suddenly felt unwell and we left... Read More »

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 very close friend of close friends, so it was shocking nonetheless and totally unexpected. Suspecting something cardiac, they scheduled an autopsy. I... Read More »

By Laura Durnell Porochista Khakpour’s insightful and haunting narrative of her battle with incurable late-stage Lyme disease is more than a memoir of her own illness. In Sick, Khakpour spotlights America’s diseased health care system, and in particular how it infects the most... Read More »