Focus – Opinions and Features

Tick bite prevention is a big issue in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, which includes Cape Cod. The region is heavily populated with ticks and the infections they can carry, including Lyme disease and babesia. One way the county seeks to educate its residents is with a newly... Read More »

by Shona Curley For 20 years, I have been teaching Pilates—a gentle method of exercise that promotes flexibility and strength. I became interested in using Pilates for rehabilitation work a long time ago, due to my own chronic neck and shoulder pain, which I only recently... Read More »

by Adrian Baranchuk, MD, FACC ,FRCPC, FCCS, and Cynthia Yeung, BSc The incidence of Lyme disease, a tick-borne bacterial infection, is rapidly increasing in North America. Risk modeling suggests that the incidence of Lyme disease will continue to rise as the migratory birds that... Read More »

by Sylvia Janicki On a balmy early-summer day in 2014, in the bucolic Mississippi countryside, I found a tick burrowed into the side of my right leg. Shortly after, a bull’s-eye rash formed around the tick-bite, and then I fell ill, developing flu-like symptoms, muscle and joint... Read More »

By David Michael Conner As so many people who live with Lyme disease will attest, just about everything Lyme related can be complex, difficult to understand, and sometimes even self-contradictory. This includes how Lyme disease is reported. As global warming drives tick... Read More »

by Sue Burke Faber I’ll never forget a couple of years ago when our whole crazy Lyme journey began. I had been diagnosed here in Canada with positive two-tier tests for a European strain of Lyme and one of our daughters also tested positive by Canadian serology for European... Read More »

By Shona Curley I’m sure many of you Lyme Warriors know that Lyme disease, and really all chronic illness, is at heart a disease of the mitochondria. What not enough of us know is that we can support mitochondrial healing from home, for free, with intentional, deep relaxation,... Read More »

By Tera Banks I became sick with Lyme in 2012. I was bitten by a mosquito in Melrose Park, Illinois, and shortly afterwards came down with what the doctors here told me was the summer flu or virus. I started to experience neck pain and horrible fatigue. After three days of this... Read More »

The following is written by a 23-year-old woman who writes the Dreaming Panda blog, about her experiences coping with Lyme disease and PANS/PANDAS—an autoimmune condition that can be triggered by such infections as strep, Lyme disease, and others. By Iris Ainsley In 2012, when I... Read More »