or faint in color – particularly in folks with darker skin. It’s also important to note that not all EM like rashes are a result of Lyme disease, so the circumstances surrounding a rash are always important for diagnosis. Swollen lymph nodes (lymphadenopathy) may occur near the site of ...
Central Mass Lyme disease awarness and prevention through tick control and tick protection. An informative blog by Dave Macchia, tick control enthusiast.
Not sure when I became infected,I think in August is when I took the tick out of the back of my leg. In October started having symptoms of lyme disease, had the bullseye on leg were it had been attached. Went to my family dr. He sent me for blood test it came back a couple day...
Someone mentioned the word Lyme to me, and I called an infectious disease doctor who laughed at me and said, "There's no Lyme in Texas." After the last headache doctor diagnosed me with Near Daily Persistent Headache (NDPH) and said I'd "just have to live with it," I started doing...
Near the end of the conference, there was a discussion among attendees in the audience about what to name the new Borrelia species. Klaus Weber from Germany nominated “burgdorferi.” Other suggestions recognized either a feature of the disease, e.g., “rheumatica,” or a relevant place, e....
Lyme Disease Lyme disease (Borrelia burgdorferi) is the fastest-growing vector-borne disease in the US, according to the CDC. Every year, some 30,000 cases of Lyme disease are reported by state health departments to the CDC, and this number has only increased in the past 20 years. This ...
To read a short version of this story, read my post on No Time Like the Present. On March 23, 2001, my life changed forever. It was the beginning of the nightmare of Lyme Disease. What we thought was stomach flu turned into a 40 day coma and brought me t
never raised the possibility that she was creating her symptoms, they also never considered Lyme to be the cause. As a result, she was never tested for it. Her doctors told her the likelihood she had Lyme was very small because she lived in California, where Lyme disease was not prevalent...
When I was first diagnosed with Chronic Lyme disease, now almost 4 years ago, I thought I knew what it was all about. You get bit by a tick, you might get sick, and then you are treated and cured quickly. HAHAHA! Little did I know! So once I began researching this crazy and unpr...
[translate] aI also started to psychically research the other side of the Lyme disease coin 我也开始精神研究Lyme疾病硬币的另一边[translate]