September 6, 2025

Bartonella Psychiatric Symptoms: Anxiety, Mood Changes, and Misdiagnosis Bartonella psychiatric symptoms are often mistaken for primary mental health conditions—especially when anxiety, agitation, or mood changes appear suddenly without a clear explanation. Some patients are told their symptoms are stress, panic disorder, or treatment-resistant depression. But when these symptoms emerge alongside physical complaints or a history […]

Gender bias in Lyme disease 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.

Why Lyme Patients Delay Care 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

Working With Lyme Disease: The Hidden Cost of Working Sick PUSHING THROUGH FATIGUE? WORKING WITH BRAIN FOG? WHAT IS THE COST OF WORKING SICK WITH LYME DISEASE? Working with Lyme disease often means pushing through fatigue, pain, and brain fog just to keep up with daily responsibilities. For many patients, this becomes a constant tradeoff