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Does Lyme Disease Go Away After Treatment? Does Lyme disease go away? It’s one of the most common—and most important—questions patients ask. In clinical experience, the answer is often yes. With timely and appropriate care, many patients improve and return to their usual level of function. That said, recovery is not identical for everyone. Some […]
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Pain With Normal EMG: Understanding the Disconnect Few experiences are more frustrating for patients than severe burning pain paired with “normal” nerve tests. Burning pain with normal EMG is a well-recognized clinical pattern, yet many patients are told that normal studies mean their symptoms are not neurologic—or worse, not legitimate. This mismatch between severe pain
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Crawling Skin Sensation: A Hidden Symptom of Lyme Disease Crawling skin sensation is among the most distressing—and most dismissed—symptoms patients report. The feeling of insects moving beneath the skin can be constant, unpredictable, and impossible to ignore. Yet when patients describe these symptoms, they are often met with skepticism or immediate psychiatric referral. Crawling skin
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Lyme Brain Fog and Anxiety: When Psychiatric Symptoms Have a Medical Cause This article reflects clinical observations from years of caring for patients with tick-borne illness, including Lyme brain fog and anxiety, a pattern that is frequently misunderstood and misdiagnosed. When these symptoms appear together, the diagnosis is often missed. This is the story of
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Losing Friends Because of Chronic Illness: Why It Happens When You’re Sick Losing friends because of chronic illness is a question patients with Lyme disease ask me quietly, often with more pain than any physical symptom they describe. They are not angry. They are grieving. As illness persists, plans are canceled, energy fades, and life
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When Being Dismissed Hurts More Than the Illness A patient once said to me, quietly and without anger, during a conversation about medical gaslighting and Lyme disease: “The hardest part wasn’t the Lyme. It was being told it couldn’t be Lyme.” She said it carefully, almost as if she were still weighing whether she would
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Lyme Disease Digestion Problems: Why Symptoms Often Don’t Make Sense Lyme disease digestion problems are common, and many patients notice that digestion is one of the first systems to feel “off.” Meals that were once routine may now trigger nausea, bloating, abdominal discomfort, or unpredictable bowel changes. Some people feel full after only a few
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When Normal Sensations Start to Hurt in Lyme Disease Touch-evoked pain is a symptom many Lyme disease patients struggle to describe—and even more struggle to have believed. When clothing brushing against skin, a gentle touch, or cool air causes pain, it reflects a real neurologic change, not imagination. This abnormal pain response has a name:
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Why Lyme Disease Persists and What Tuberculosis Teaches Us In the world of infectious disease, few organisms are as stubborn as Mycobacterium tuberculosis. But understanding why Lyme disease persists after treatment may require looking at what TB has taught us about bacterial survival. For more on latent TB, see the CDC’s tuberculosis overview. We call
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Bad Signs After a Tick Bite: 7 Warnings You Shouldn’t Ignore Based on clinical experience caring for patients with tick-borne illness. It often begins with something easy to dismiss. A small rash that fades. A few days of fatigue. A headache that doesn’t quite make sense.These are the bad signs after a tick bite that
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