Does Lyme Disease Go Away After Treatment? Does Lyme disease go away after treatment? In many cases, yes—but not for everyone. While many patients recover with timely care, others develop persistent symptoms that require further evaluation. Recovery from Lyme disease does not follow a single predictable course. Some individuals return to full function, while others […]
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Burning 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
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Crawling Skin Sensation: A Hidden Symptom of Lyme Disease Quick Answer: Crawling skin sensation in Lyme disease is a neurologic symptom caused by small fiber nerve dysfunction. Patients may feel movement, tingling, or insects under the skin—even when exams and tests appear normal. Crawling skin sensation in Lyme disease is among the most distressing—and most
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Lyme Brain Fog and Anxiety: When Psychiatric Symptoms Have a Medical Cause After 37 years treating Lyme disease, I’ve seen brain fog and anxiety misdiagnosed as purely psychiatric disorders. She came to me after eight months of worsening psychiatric symptoms, including severe anxiety, episodes of rage, obsessive-compulsive behaviors, and deepening depression. She had been diagnosed
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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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Pain From Light Touch in Lyme Disease (Allodynia Explained) Quick Answer: Allodynia in Lyme disease occurs when the nervous system misinterprets normal touch—such as clothing or light pressure—as pain. This reflects altered sensory processing, even when standard tests are normal. Touch-evoked pain is a symptom many Lyme disease patients struggle to describe—and even more struggle
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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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