Many patients with Lyme disease describe the same experience: they sleep through the night yet wake feeling depleted. This is not about sleep duration — it is about biologic fatigue and impaired recovery. Feeling exhausted despite sleeping often reflects what clinicians describe as non-restorative sleep — a state in which sleep occurs but the body […]
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Many patients with Lyme disease describe a frustrating and often frightening experience: they can no longer think the way they used to. Concentration is harder. Words feel just out of reach. Tasks that once felt automatic now require intense effort. This constellation of symptoms is commonly referred to as brain fog. While the term is
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Lyme Disease Gut Symptoms: 7 Clues Your Doctor May Miss One family came to me after their 11-year-old daughter had been struggling with stomach aches, poor appetite, and nausea for months. She was missing school, and every GI test came back normal. The family had tried changing her diet, adding probiotics, and even therapy because
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Lyme screening is rarely part of routine medical care, even in regions where tick exposure is common. When early Lyme disease is not recognized, diagnosis and treatment are often delayed until symptoms become more complex and disruptive. In children, these delays can affect learning, behavior, and long-term health during critical stages of development. What NIH
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The Early Warning Signs of a Lyme Flare That Patients Know Before It Hits You’re not “sick” yet.But your body knows.You feel the shift — before the symptoms have a name. It might start with a flash of irritability.Or a strange sense of clarity that doesn’t match your day.Then the fatigue rolls in. And you
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If your digestion has slowed and nothing seems to help, you’re not alone Constipation is a common and often frustrating symptom in people with Lyme disease. Some patients notice fewer bowel movements. Others experience hard stools, straining, bloating, or a constant sense of incomplete emptying despite adequate hydration and fiber. This symptom is common in
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The debate over chronic Lyme vs PTLDS isn’t just about words—it’s about whether patients feel validated or dismissed. Many patients use chronic Lyme disease to describe ongoing fatigue, pain, and brain fog. Some clinicians prefer post-treatment Lyme disease syndrome (PTLDS), a term that sounds more neutral but often feels minimizing. Did You Know? Most patients
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Post-Treatment Lyme Disease Syndrome (PTLDS) For many patients, Lyme disease does not end when treatment stops. Symptoms persist, evolve, or return — sometimes for months or years after antibiotics are completed. This is persistent Lyme disease. It is not rare, not imagined, and not fully explained by any single mechanism. It is what patients live
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Many patients with Lyme disease experience persistent symptoms that are increasingly understood to involve immune dysregulation, even long after the initial infection has been treated. These symptoms are often misunderstood or minimized. Increasingly, they are recognized as reflecting immune dysregulation and neuroinflammation—a state in which immune signaling fails to return fully to baseline and continues
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When Vision Doesn’t Let Go Some patients notice that an image disappears, but their vision does not fully reset. Lights may trail, words linger on the page, or objects seem to echo briefly in space. These experiences can be confusing and unsettling, particularly when they occur without warning. This phenomenon is known as palinopsia. Although
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