Lyme Science Blog

Palinopsia: Why Afterimages Won’t Go Away Quick Answer: Palinopsia is a neurologic condition where images persist or repeat after the original object is gone. It reflects altered visual processing in the brain and may be linked to migraine, seizures, medications, or other neurologic conditions. When Vision Doesn’t Let Go Some patients notice that an image

Can Lyme cause bladder pain or urgency? She came to see me after months of feeling dismissed. She was experiencing Lyme bladder pain — pressure, burning, and urgency that felt exactly like a UTI, yet every test came back normal. She is not the only one. Many women quietly live with bladder pain due to Lyme

Parenting or Working With Lyme Disease: What Changes—and What Doesn’t Your capacity may change Your role still matters Productivity is not linear There is a way forward Parenting or working with Lyme disease is one of the most difficult—and least discussed—challenges patients face. Patients often don’t ask the question directly at first. Instead, they describe

Why Does Lyme Disease Mimic MS or Fibromyalgia? Numbness. Fatigue. Brain fog. Sometimes Lyme disease resembles MS or fibromyalgia. Shared biology can complicate diagnosis. Lyme disease can mimic conditions such as multiple sclerosis (MS) and fibromyalgia because these illnesses share overlapping neurologic, inflammatory, and autonomic symptoms. A woman developed numbness, fatigue, dizziness, and cognitive problems.

Can Lyme Disease Cause Neuropathy? Burning, Tingling, and Moving Nerve Pain Burning, tingling, buzzing, or electric sensations that appear in one area, fade, and resurface elsewhere are common in Lyme disease. This question arises often in my practice—and the answer is rarely straightforward. In tick-borne illness, symptoms that raise concern for nerve damage are often