Covid and Lyme Blog

POTS Symptoms After COVID: What This Means for Lyme Disease Patients POTS may develop after viral illness. Long COVID and Lyme disease share autonomic symptom patterns. Fatigue, dizziness, and exercise intolerance may persist for months. POTS symptoms after COVID have drawn increasing attention as researchers recognize the long-term autonomic effects of post-infectious illness. Patients recovering […]

Small Fiber Neuropathy in Lyme Disease and COVID-19: Why Nerve Pain Persists Small fiber neuropathy Lyme disease symptoms may include burning pain, tingling, sensitivity to touch, dizziness, and autonomic dysfunction—even when EMG and nerve conduction studies are normal. The overlap between Lyme disease and COVID-19 highlights a broader neurologic pattern: infections can trigger persistent nerve

Lyme disease and COVID-19 — Understanding the risks Listed below are several questions from the Lyme disease and COVID-19 survey. Your answers can assist us with understanding the potential side effects from COVID-19 and/or the vaccine in people with Lyme disease. Please note, anyone with Lyme disease can take this survey ─ even those who

PTSD, COVID-19 and Lyme disease: a perspective Patients with chronic Lyme disease have reported symptoms of PTSD. Now, an article entitled “PTSD as the second tsunami of the SARS-Cov-2 pandemic,” by Dutheil et al. indicates that some COVID-19 patients are experiencing post-traumatic stress disorder, as well.¹ The authors highlight several observations on the SARS-Cov-2 pandemic

Lyme Disease and Long COVID: Overlapping Symptoms and Recovery Challenges Symptoms can look similar Recovery may be prolonged Diagnosis is often challenging Expert insight helps guide care Lyme disease and Long COVID share overlapping symptoms that can complicate diagnosis and recovery. In this expert panel, clinicians and patients discuss how these conditions compare and what

Focus on COVID-19 leads to delayed diagnosis of Lyme disease Hello, and welcome to another Inside Lyme Podcast. I am your host Dr. Daniel Cameron. In this episode, I’ll be discussing a unique case involving a 67-year-old man whose diagnosis of Lyme disease was delayed because clinicians suspected his symptoms were due to COVID-19. By

COVID-19 long haulers share similar experiences and frustrations with chronic Lyme disease patients in a commissioned report. “Anecdotally, there’s no question that there are a considerable number of individuals who have a post-viral syndrome that really, in many respects, can incapacitate them for weeks and weeks following so-called recovery and clearing of the virus,” writes

COVID-19 and Lyme Disease Share Similar Neurologic Symptoms In the article “Neurologic Findings Among Inpatients with COVID-19 at a Safety-Net U.S. Hospital”, Anand and colleagues described the symptoms and clinical presentations of 74 individuals with confirmed COVID-19. [1] The patients were evaluated by neurology consults while hospitalized or within one month of hospitalization. COVID-19 and

Should Lyme Disease Patients Get the COVID Vaccine? < Lyme disease patients may have questions about COVID vaccination Immune dysfunction and chronic symptoms can complicate decision-making Risks and benefits should be reviewed individually with a clinician Some Lyme disease patients have expressed concern about whether COVID-19 vaccination could worsen chronic symptoms, trigger immune reactions, or

Are You Reluctant to Take the COVID-19 Vaccine? Hello, and welcome to another Inside Lyme Podcast. I am your host Dr. Daniel Cameron. In this episode, I discuss concerns many Lyme disease patients have about the COVID-19 vaccine and the factors contributing to vaccine hesitancy. By Dr. Daniel Cameron Key Point: Some Lyme disease patients