When Lyme Symptoms Worsen During Your Period Many women tell me the same thing: their Lyme symptoms get worse during their period, often in the exact same window every month. Fatigue deepens. Pain sharpens. Dizziness, palpitations, and air hunger return. What should be a predictable cycle becomes a predictable crash. Many women don’t realize that […]
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Why Lyme Disease Causes Heat and Cold Intolerance When Your Body Stops Regulating Temperature Normally Many patients with Lyme disease describe something they never struggled with before: they suddenly can’t tolerate heat or cold. They walk into a warm room and feel flushed or dizzy. A mild chill hits them and their body reacts as
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Why Lyme Disease Can Feel Like PTSD A growing number of my patients tell me something they struggle to say out loud: “Why Lyme disease can feel like PTSD.” They describe a body that reacts like it’s in danger even when nothing is happening, a nervous system that fires alarms without a trigger, and symptoms
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Lyme Abdominal Pain: What Doctors Miss She’d seen seven specialists in 18 months, but no one could explain her abdominal pain. The tests were normal. The pain was not. Her doctors never considered that Lyme disease abdominal pain often begins long before anything shows up on imaging. Ultrasound: normal. CT scan: normal. Endoscopy: normal. Colonoscopy:
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Lyme Disease Mistaken for Child Abuse Lyme disease mistaken for child abuse is rare but possible when symptoms are misunderstood. In young children who cannot describe their symptoms clearly, infections such as Lyme disease may occasionally resemble traumatic injury. Some medical cases stay with us long after we read them. One such case—published by Pan
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Night Sweats Babesia: The Symptom Doctors Miss Night sweats from Babesia are one of the most distinctive — and most commonly missed — symptoms in tick-borne illness. Patients describe drenching sweats that soak bedding and clothing, often appearing without explanation and resistant to standard treatment. When night sweats follow a tick bite or appear alongside
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Night Sweats Babesia: The Symptom Doctors Miss When the Road Stops Feeling Safe For many patients, the realization hits suddenly — you’re behind the wheel, and something feels off.The light changes, but your reaction time is slower. A familiar route looks disorienting. You miss a turn, or your vision blurs for a few seconds. These
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PTSD-Like Symptoms After Medical Gaslighting in Lyme Disease Recognizing PTSD-Like Symptoms in Lyme Disease Many patients describe racing thoughts before appointments, fear of being dismissed, and physical reactions when discussing symptoms. These PTSD-like patterns arise not only from infection, but from the experience of being doubted, delayed, or disbelieved. Patients report: Flashbacks of being dismissed
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Lyme Disease CRPS Connection: When Infection Drives Pain A man in Slovenia developed unexplained, severe limb pain that wouldn’t respond to standard treatment. X-rays and scans pointed to Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS), yet blood tests revealed active Lyme disease. When doctors treated the infection, both conditions completely resolved. This landmark 2002 case, published in
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Babesia Blood Donation: When Screening Finds Infection Babesia blood screening saved this patient from months more of misdiagnosis. A routine donation uncovered what his doctors had missed all summer. A week after his donation, a letter arrived with the words no one expects to see: Your donation has tested positive for Babesia. In that moment,
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