Lyme Science Blog

One-Sided Symptoms in Lyme Disease: Why One Side of the Body Feels Different One-sided symptoms in Lyme disease can mimic serious neurologic conditions. Patients may experience weakness, numbness, heaviness, or altered sensation affecting one side of the body. These symptoms often fluctuate, worsening during flare-ups and improving between episodes. One-sided symptoms in Lyme disease can […]

Lyme Disease Misdiagnosis: Why Saying Sorry Matters Lyme misdiagnosis can leave lasting harm Delayed diagnosis can damage trust and outcomes Trust begins when clinicians address missed diagnoses My patient couldn’t understand why an “I’m sorry” never came. His experience captures the need for a Lyme misdiagnosis apology—the simple act of acknowledgment that can sometimes mean

Lyme Disease Second Opinion: What to Do When Specialists Disagree When specialists disagree about Lyme disease Patients are often left coordinating care alone A second opinion may help reconnect the pieces When specialists disagree about Lyme disease, patients ask me this question every week: should I get a second opinion? It usually comes at a

Is It Menopause—or Lyme Disease? Night sweats, fatigue, anxiety, and brain fog are often blamed on menopause. But hormonal transition is not the only possible explanation. Some overlapping conditions may go unrecognized for months or years. A woman in her mid-40s noticed worsening fatigue, disrupted sleep, night sweats, palpitations, and rising anxiety. Brain fog interfered

Lyme Disease and IBS: When It’s Not Just IBS IBS symptoms and Lyme disease can overlap. Digestive symptoms may reflect multisystem illness. Some patients deserve a broader evaluation. IBS symptoms and Lyme disease are not usually discussed together, yet gastrointestinal complaints are among the most common reasons patients are reassured rather than fully evaluated. A

Teenage Lyme Disease: When Symptoms Don’t Match Teenage Lyme disease may present with anxiety, fatigue, and brain fog Neuropsychiatric and autonomic symptoms are often mistaken for stress Delayed recognition may prolong illness and academic decline A 15-year-old student came to my office after months of headaches, fatigue, and joint pain. Her pediatrician had told her

The Chronic Lyme Disease Debate Explained Persistent Lyme symptoms remain one of medicine’s most debated topics Patients with chronic symptoms are often caught between competing frameworks The chronic Lyme disease debate affects diagnosis, treatment, and recovery For decades, patients with persistent symptoms after Lyme disease treatment have found themselves caught in the middle of the

Do All Ticks Carry Lyme Disease? Do all ticks carry Lyme disease? No. Only certain tick species are proven to transmit Lyme disease to humans. However, other ticks may still spread serious infections or trigger inflammatory conditions such as Alpha-gal syndrome. Understanding which ticks transmit Lyme disease—and which do not—is important when evaluating risk after

Chronic Lyme Disease: The Tsunami No One Saw Coming Chronic Lyme disease remains one of the most debated and misunderstood illnesses in medicine. While disagreement continues over terminology and mechanisms, clinicians continue to see patients with persistent fatigue, pain, cognitive symptoms, autonomic dysfunction, and disability long after an initial infection. This growing burden has led