Lyme Test Accuracy: Why Results Can Mislead A 35-year-old patient came to my office exhausted, achy, and struggling to think clearly. Six weeks earlier, she had developed a classic bull’s-eye rash. Her Lyme test? Negative. Questions about Lyme test accuracy arise early in cases like this—especially when symptoms and test results don’t align. But I […]
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Lyme disease weight gain is one of the least talked about—and most misunderstood—symptoms of Lyme disease. For many patients, weight gain and weight loss become confusing and distressing parts of the illness. Some people lose weight quickly without trying. Others gain weight despite eating the same—or even less. These changes reflect how Lyme disease affects
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Many Lyme patients struggle to explain a tired but wired Lyme disease pattern that feels contradictory but deeply real: “My body is exhausted, but my brain won’t shut off.” This tired-but-wired pattern is common in early Lyme disease, during treatment, and often persists after treatment. It is not psychological or the result of poor sleep
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When Back Pain Doesn’t Add Up You’ve tried stretching, therapy, or even imaging — but your back pain won’t quit.For some, this pain isn’t purely mechanical. Many Lyme disease patients report chronic back or hip pain that actually stems from sacroiliac joint inflammation — a form of sacroiliitis. Sacroiliitis occurs when the SI joints (where
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You can’t catch your breath. The inhale stalls halfway, as if something inside your chest has tightened or locked. You try again and again, convinced the next breath will finally feel complete. It doesn’t. You go to urgent care. They listen to your lungs—clear. They check your oxygen—normal. The chest X-ray shows nothing. You’re told
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Babesia air hunger causes a sudden, terrifying sensation of not being able to draw a full breath, even when oxygen levels appear normal. The first time many patients experience it, the moment feels surreal. They go to take a breath—something they have done automatically for their entire lives—and suddenly the inhale does not arrive the
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Lyme Disease Treatment Options: What Patients Need to Know Lyme disease treatment is often described as straightforward: identify the infection, prescribe antibiotics, and expect recovery. For many patients, that approach works well. For others, treatment is far more complex. In clinical practice, patients present at different stages of illness, with varying symptoms, co-infections, immune responses,
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Caring for Someone With Chronic Lyme Disease: A Caregiver Resource Families caring for a loved one with chronic Lyme disease often ask, “What should we expect next?”It’s a question that rarely has a clear or linear answer. Chronic Lyme disease can unfold in waves—uneven, unpredictable, and deeply individual. Symptoms may flare, ease, then return in
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Is Lyme Disease Contagious? Is Lyme disease contagious? That is one of the most common—and important—questions I hear from patients and families, especially from those worried about exposing loved ones. The short answer is no: Lyme disease is not considered contagious in the traditional sense. But as with much in Lyme disease, the full answer
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Pediatric Lyme Disease: Why Children Are Frequently Misdiagnosed Pediatric Lyme disease rarely looks like the textbook descriptions clinicians learn in medical school. While adults typically present with fatigue and joint pain, children often develop sudden behavioral changes, academic struggles, and psychiatric symptoms that get attributed to everything except infection. This diagnostic blind spot means many
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