Why Lyme Disease and Exercise Deserve a Second Look In my clinical practice, I’ve worked with patients who could barely walk across the room—let alone exercise. But I’ve also seen those same patients regain strength, mobility, and hope when we introduced the right kind of movement at the right time. When Lyme disease is part […]
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What gender bias in Lyme disease can look like She first came to me after two exhausting years of symptoms that refused to show up on routine tests. Her knees and shoulders ached unpredictably. Her neck was stiff. The fatigue hit her like a wall every afternoon—“bone-deep,” she called it. Brain fog made it hard
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Some Lyme patients delay care for a few days. Others for decades. And it’s not always for the reasons doctors assume. In fact, the behavioral barriers to timely Lyme disease care — uncertainty, fear, dismissal, logistics, stigma are also seen in other serious but preventable conditions. Understanding why Lyme patients delay care is critical because
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The Reality of Working Sick with Lyme Disease Struggling with Lyme disease and working sick is an all-too-common scenario for patients who feel forced to push through fatigue, pain, and brain fog just to keep their jobs. Many describe it as a daily balancing act — choosing between financial survival, responsibility to family, and the
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