When Driving Becomes Difficult At first, the change was subtle. The road felt unfamiliar, even though nothing had changed. He found himself needing to concentrate in ways he never had before. Traffic felt overwhelming. He became anxious just thinking about getting behind the wheel. What once had been muscle memory became mentally exhausting. Over time, […]
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Cold Hands in Lyme Disease: What’s Behind the Color Changes Cold hands in Lyme disease are a common but frequently missed symptom. A man with Lyme disease described episodes where his hands would become cold and turn pale or bluish, even while sitting indoors. Some days his fingers looked mottled and felt numb; other days
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Lyme Disease Underfunded: Why Research Is Still Too Slow Lyme disease is underfunded—and patients are paying the price. Every day, I work with people living with this illness. I see the pain, the confusion, the fatigue, the brain fog—the profound disruption Lyme disease causes in a person’s life. As a physician who has treated thousands
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Lyme Disease and Decision Making: When Cognition Gets in the Way Not every challenge in Lyme disease is physical. One of the most overlooked problems involves Lyme disease and decision making—when patients struggle to make choices not from lack of motivation, but because the illness has impaired memory, clarity, and cognitive function. When Lyme Disease
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Lyme Disease Misconceptions That Delay Diagnosis and Harm Patients Lyme disease misconceptions continue to shape how patients are diagnosed, treated, and dismissed in clinical practice. These misconceptions often reduce a complex illness to rigid timelines and narrow definitions that do not reflect real-world patient experience. As a result, many people with Lyme disease are left
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The Chronic Lyme Disease Education Gap: A Crisis in Training and Care The chronic Lyme disease education gap remains one of the most urgent yet underrecognized problems in modern medicine. Many clinicians are well trained to identify early Lyme disease, but far fewer are prepared to manage persistent or relapsing symptoms that may follow—fatigue, cognitive
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This is the first article in a series addressing persistent myths about Lyme disease—beginning with the claim that Lyme disease is cured in 30 days. Many people still believe that Lyme disease is always cured in 30 days. It is a common—and harmful—assumption. For some patients, early treatment does work. But for many others, particularly
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