Dr. Daniel Cameron

A 31-year-old woman with post-treatment Lyme disease syndrome (PTLDS) had pain that was refractory to radiofrequency ablation, vitamin infusion therapy, opioid analgesics, and other pharmacotherapies. Her pain began gradually three years after being diagnosed and treated for Lyme disease, explains Hanna from the Florida Spine Institute. The patient complained of diffuse body pain, fatigue, headache,

Bransfield’s colleagues from Howard University, Rush University Medical Center and the University of North Dakota agree with his assessment, stating, “We would like to applaud the author for conducting such an important study by performing a comprehensive assessment of suicide and its association with Lyme-associated diseases (LADs).” [2] In their article “Suicidal and homicidal tendencies

According to investigators, 2 of the 35 Ixodes spp ticks identified tested positive for Bb s.l. [1] The discovery, however, was not unexpected following reports of borreliosis-like disease in Brazil. “During 2009–2016, Brazil registered 4078 suspected cases of borreliosis-like disease, also known as Baggio-Yoshinari syndrome,” states Dall’Agnol from the Instituto de Pesquisas Veterinárias Desidério Finamor

Greenberg’s Letter to the Editor states, “The recently published article by Shapiro et al hoped to be topical in this age of ‘alternative facts’ but fell short, providing mainly biased viewpoints that prevent independent assessment of existing research in chronic Lyme disease. Presenting this conclusion as unquestionable is misleading.” [1] Shapiro and colleagues began their

The authors concluded, however, that the symptoms were not due to an active infection, since they lasted longer than 6 months. And therefore, the patients would not benefit from additional rounds of antibiotic treatment.  “As more than 50% of the children had a duration of symptoms of more than 6 months, this further points towards

The article, published in Clinical Autonomic Research, cites several cases [2-5] including one in which a 46-year-old patient reports increasing pain and swelling in his left foot. The pain was so significant that his leg became dysfunctional, according to the authors. “Even the slightest contact with the skin of the affected area caused the patient unbearable pain.” [2]