May 26, 2025

Fear of a Herxheimer Reaction in Lyme Disease: What Patients Should Know Fear of a Herxheimer reaction is common among patients beginning Lyme disease treatment. Many worry that worsening symptoms mean the treatment is harmful rather than part of the healing process. Fear of a Herxheimer reaction often arises when symptoms worsen after starting treatment, […]

Lyme Arthritis: Is Persistent Joint Pain Debris or Ongoing Infection? Can Lyme disease cause persistent joint pain after treatment? New research suggests the answer may be more complex than previously thought. For years, persistent joint inflammation after antibiotic treatment was believed to reflect an overactive immune response to leftover bacterial debris—not ongoing infection. But emerging

Babesia Lyme Treatment Failure: Why Healthy Patients Stay Sick Babesia lyme treatment failure is more common than most patients realize. She wasn’t immunocompromised. So why was she still sick months after Lyme treatment? That was the question we kept coming back to. She’d been told Babesia wouldn’t be a problem—unless she had a weakened immune