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TOUCHED BY LYME: Lyme, MCS & that important rite of passage

Getting a driver’s license is a rite of passage that young people with chronic Lyme disease sometimes miss out on. If you’re too sick to even get out of bed, you can’t very well be practicing how to...

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TOUCHED BY LYME: “Like having 10 nails stuck in the bottom of your foot”

One of the reasons chronic Lyme disease is such a complicated illness is that most patients aren’t only infected with Borrelia burgdorferi .  They are likely to have a host of additional pathogens...

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TOUCHED BY LYME: Game warden who died from Lyme to be honored in Washington DC

Johnny Maisano was an Oklahoma game warden who contracted Lyme disease on the job in the 1980s. After two years of struggle, he succumbed to the illness in 1990. Now, Maisano will have his name...

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TOUCHED BY LYME: Share your views about Dr. Phil’s Lyme show

Today’s much-awaited Dr. Phil program, called “Deadly Consequences,” included a segment about Lyme disease. As I write this blog, it hasn’t aired on the west coast yet, so I haven’t seen it. But I’m...

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TOUCHED BY LYME: Update on Morgan’s Lyme-related tics

Morgan Miller is a 15-year-old girl from Iowa with Lyme disease. After the initial 3-week course of antibiotics failed to cure her, her symptoms got worse and she developed severe physical and vocal...

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TOUCHED BY LYME: Insurance coverage for Lyme? That’s a horse of a different...

My jaw dropped and my heart beat faster when I first saw the following headline: “Lyme disease—covered under major medical health insurance plan.” I quickly scanned the article: tick season longer than...

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TOUCHED BY LYME: Four years since AG action & we’re still stuck with the d***...

On May 1, 2008, then-Attorney General of Connecticut Richard Blumenthal released his findings about the Infectious Diseases Society of America’s Lyme treatment guidelines. After a long investigation,...

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TOUCHED BY LYME: “A lost childhood: The hidden faces of Lyme disease”

Chronic Lyme disease is the pits at any age, but it seems to create unique challenges for teenagers. Sixteen-year-old Gabbi Hicks, of Wisconsin, knows all about that. She was an athlete and a real...

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TOUCHED BY LYME: Misdiagnosed Lyme turned into horrific experience

In the summer of 1997, while working at a camp in Maine after my freshman year of college, I found a blotchy red rash on my right arm. The camp nurse shrugged. “Maybe it’s from your sleeping bag. Let’s...

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TOUCHED BY LYME: Lyme disease information list

Lyme Disease Information Links www.lymedisease.org –the website of LymeDisease.org (formerly the California Lyme Disease Association) gives info about ticks, Lyme disease, co-infections, prevention,...

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