Dr. Daniel Cameron

Chronic Pain Is Rising—Is Lyme Disease Being Missed? Chronic pain is increasing nationwide. Not all of it is explained by long COVID. Lyme disease may be part of the missing link. A new study found that chronic pain among U.S. adults increased from 21% in 2019 to 24% in 2023—now affecting nearly 60 million people. […]

Spinal Tap for Lyme Disease: Do You Really Need One? “Do I really need a spinal tap for Lyme disease?” This is a common question—and an important one. Spinal taps (lumbar punctures) are often recommended to “rule out neurologic Lyme disease.” But in many cases, they do not provide the answers patients expect. While spinal

Lyme Rash Misdiagnosis: Not Always a Bull’s-Eye A bull’s-eye rash is often associated with Lyme disease, but the opposite problem is common — Lyme rash misdiagnosis. Many patients with Lyme disease never develop the classic bull’s-eye pattern. When clinicians rely on that textbook image alone, early infection can be overlooked. When people search for “bullseye

Why Medicine Must Not Abandon Lyme Patients This discussion highlights ethical failures that occur when patients are dismissed in the face of diagnostic uncertainty. Abandoning Lyme patients violates the core principles of medical ethics. A woman in her 40’s came to me after months of searching for answers. She had been a successful business executive,

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

New Lyme Blood Test LymeSeek Promises Earlier, More Accurate Diagnosis A New Approach to Lyme Disease Testing Lyme disease is one of the few infections where patients are often diagnosed too late—not because they waited, but because testing could not detect the infection until later stages, if at all. A new Lyme blood test called

Lyme Disease and Gastroparesis: When the Diagnosis Is Missed Severe GI symptoms can have hidden causes. Lyme disease can affect the nervous system. And sometimes, treatment is never reconsidered. Lyme disease gastroparesis is rarely recognized—but may be an underappreciated complication of tick-borne illness. In a case reported by Qasawa and colleagues, a young woman with