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May 8, 2017
Lyme Disease Awareness Events
This past weekend, Jeff and I participated in a May Day protest in front of the White House to bring forth attention to the seriousness of Lyme Disease. On Sunday, we then participated in the Loudoun Lyme 5K in Brambleton to bring awareness to the disease and need for more effective treatment for the disease. […]
May 6, 2017
Am I Cured?
If I had realized back in 2009 that I would still be in treatment of some sort seven years later, I am not sure I would have stuck with the plan. I was lucky in a few ways. First, I was directed to the world’s best physician in treating Bartonella. He knew how to test […]
May 5, 2017
Getting the RIGHT Tests for Lyme Disease
In the Commonwealth of Virginia, physicians are required by law to give you a piece of paper stating that if your ELISA Lyme test comes back negative, that does not necessarily mean you don’t have Lyme. The test is so inaccurate that physicians have to tell you that you might still be infected. I do […]
May 4, 2017
Other Diseases that Can Actually be Lyme Disease
It took me several years to get an accurate diagnosis. On the path to that diagnosis, my then endocrinologist tested me for Lupus and it was a positive result. I was very lucky in some regards. When my uncle heard this, he called me and urgently asked me to be tested for Lyme Disease. Aunt […]
Do You Own a Cat?
Cats are the primary carrier of a disease called Bartonella. Bartonella is termed a co-infection of Lyme disease. But it is becoming increasingly more common among patients being treated for Lyme disease. Evidence is showing that patients who originally tested positive for Lyme disease (including me) actually have Bartonella. And the two diseases are NOT […]
May 2, 2017
If You Are Bitten by a Tick
A few weeks ago, Jeff and I were at our cabin in southwestern Virginia. We were lying in bed. Jeff scratched his head, and he realized that he had pulled out an engorged tick. Luckily, we knew what to do. Our physician prescribed 30 days’ worth of Doxycycline and Clarithromycin. We are hoping this combination […]
May 1, 2017
We Don’t Have Lyme Disease in Alabama
The only information I knew about Lyme Disease in 2009 was what I had learned during my Aunt Betty’s illness from 2000 until 2002. My aunt’s story is the worst of all stories: refused a lyme test by her internist, she fought for a year to be diagnosed correctly. She had the classic tick bite […]
Case Study: The Tick Bite Wasn’t Lyme
Lynn’s journey began during a family football game on Thanksgiving Day, 2006. She pulled a tick off her arm later in afternoon. Two weeks later, Lynn developed a fever and back pain. She had no rash. She thought she had the flu. She mentioned the tick bite to her physician, but he assured her it […]
Testing and Diagnosing for Lyme
The following is an excerpt written by Dr. B. Robert Mozayeni from our book Lyme Savvy: Treatment Insights for Lyme Patients and Practitioners Blood Test for Lyme At the time of the tick bite and the rash, if someone has never been exposed to Borrelia before, they will not have antibodies to the Borrelia microbe. […]
April 30, 2017
Lyme Disease Awareness Month
May has been proclaimed as Lyme Disease Awareness Month in the Commonwealth of Virginia (thank you Representative Barbara Comstock!). Each day, for 30 days, I am providing readers with information relating to Lyme Disease that you may not necessarily know, but hopefully, will find helpful. My purpose for this is threefold: My aunt died from […]
