Dr. Daniel Cameron

Why Treating Lyme Disease Is More Complex Than You Think By 1990, I had started prescribing intravenous ceftriaxone (Rocephin), based on emerging reports of its effectiveness in chronic neurologic Lyme disease. This adjustment was influenced by reports from doctors Dr. Logigian, Kaplan, and Steere, who documented the treatment of chronic neurologic Lyme disease cases. I […]

Why Treating Lyme Disease Is More Complex Than You Think My patient took a “bury-your-head-in-the-sand” approach towards Lyme disease, which did not help him. He had been ill for more than 2 years, suffering from severe fatigue, brain fog, poor sleep, headaches, poor concentration, irritability, neck pain, chest pain, palpitations, stomach pains, and joint pain.

Rifampin for Lyme Disease: When Doxycycline Isn’t Enough When I first began treating Lyme disease in 1987, the primary antibiotic prescribed was doxycycline. This choice was driven by doxycycline’s effectiveness not only against Lyme disease itself but also against co-infections such as Ehrlichia and Anaplasmosis. These co-infections, often transmitted by the same ticks that carry

TMJ arthritis triggered by Lyme disease Jaw pain from Lyme disease is often overlooked, particularly when inflammation affects the temporomandibular joint (TMJ). In some cases, Lyme arthritis can mimic a common temporomandibular disorder (TMD), leading to delayed diagnosis. For a full overview of Lyme arthritis, including symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment, see our main guide. Case

Can you get ticks from pets? Yes, and according to a study by Jones et al. owning indoor-outdoor pets increases your risk of being bitten by a tick and potentially exposing yourself to various tick-borne diseases. [1] Out of the 1,546 homes with pets, 88.1% used some form of tick control on their pets. Yet,

Dissociative amnesia in a patient with post-treatment Lyme disease syndrome Investigators describe the case of a 41-year-old patient, diagnosed with post-treatment Lyme disease syndrome (PTLDS), who, in addition to exhibiting typical PTLDS symptoms, also showed a severe retrograde episodic-autobiographical and semantic amnesia. In 2015, the patient exhibited weakness and loss of energy, psychomotor slowing, night

Single tick bite leads to 3 diseases in elderly woman The woman was an avid gardener who had a history of COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease) and high blood pressure. She was admitted to the hospital with dyspnea, fatigue, and a cough productive of yellowish mucoid sputum. The patient also had significant altered mental status,

Babesia Bartonella: Neuropsychiatric Symptoms in Children Babesia bartonella co-infection is more common than previously recognized—and when it occurs in children, the symptoms can be devastating. New research using advanced testing methods found that 6 of 7 patients infected with Babesia were also co-infected with one or more Bartonella species. The cases included children with severe

Homicide, two assaults, and suicide in Lyme disease patient The article entitled “A Fatal Case of Late Stage Lyme Borreliosis and Substance Abuse,”1 describes a patient exhibiting aggressiveness, violence, and homicidality. Like many Lyme disease patients, the man experienced a delay in diagnosis and treatment. (One study reports that subjects enrolling in a trial of

Chronic Lyme patient treated successfully with low dose Flagyl A 55-year-old man developed numbness and burning in his legs, numbness in his hands, tinnitus, extreme weakness, intense pain, cramps at night and at rest, palpitations, paresthesias (pins and needles sensation), headaches, shortness of breath and orthostatic hypotension. In addition, “Fatigue was intense and incapacitating, accompanied