In a Vanity Fair interview earlier this month, Daisy Jones & the Six star Riley Keough revealed something she had never spoken about with the press before: her battle with chronic Lyme disease. She ...
“If I took my dog on a 20-minute walk, I was in bed for the rest of the day,” she says. “Forget about going to the gym, despite the fact that I had been an athlete growing up.” Then there were the ...
In an arc that parallels long COVID in many ways, chronic Lyme – or the persistence of debilitating symptoms following Lyme disease – is receiving fresh attention in a recent documentary. “I’m Not ...
The Trump administration could help people suffering from chronic Lyme disease—unless RFK Jr. gets in the way.
Up until the COVID-19 pandemic, many of those suffering from post-infectious chronic illness weren’t taken seriously by medical professionals. The typical symptoms associated with long COVID-19, like ...
Elle Brooks-Tao, a filmmaker, got thrust into the confusing world of Lyme disease when a family member became infected and had debilitating symptoms for over eight years before being diagnosed. The ...
Brain fog. Fatigue. Body aches. These are some of the symptoms people with Lyme disease have reported even months after being treated for the tick-borne illness — a condition called Post-Treatment ...
Does chronic Lyme disease exist? That’s the question that haunts “The Quiet Epidemic,” Lindsay Keys and Winslow Crane-Murdoch’s worthy and provocative documentary about the highly controversial ...
Between 2012 and 2014, Tracy Jakich Davis’ 14-year-old son, Jaden, developed a host of mysterious symptoms that more than a half dozen doctors near Phoenix, Arizona could not piece together to form a ...
Expert Rev Anti Infect Ther. 2011;9(7):787-797. Gradual convalescence is observed after many systemic infections. For example, following bacterial pneumonia nonspecific symptoms that impair quality of ...
One-third of patients who were sick with COVID-19 have come down with chronic symptoms, now known as long Covid, a.k.a long-hauler syndrome, a.k.a post-Covid syndrome. 1 For the most part, these are ...
A Clinical Approach to Patients Seeking Treatment for Chronic Lyme Disease Patients who seek subspecialty care for chronic Lyme disease are medically heterogeneous and have diverse backgrounds, ...