NH Couple Grateful For WMUR Lyme Disease Chronicle:

NEWPORT, N.H. — Health officials said Friday that there has been a surge or Lyme disease in New Hampshire, a challenging disease to diagnose and treat.

Several weeks ago, WMUR devoted a special chronicle to Lyme disease — an infection transmitted by some deer ticks.

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August 8th, 2010 | Category: Discussion, Lyme News |  Email This Post | Leave a comment

Having neurological Lyme disease has been devastating financially as well as emotionally and physically.

Throughout the ups and downs of the disease, the internet has been my salvation – allowing me to get support from other sufferers and eventually allowing me to extend a helping hand too.

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August 7th, 2010 | Category: Chronic Lyme Disease, Coping with Lyme Disease, Discussion, Product Reviews |  Email This Post | Comments (3)

If you haven’t seen it, now is the time you should.

http://ticktalkireland.wordpress.com/

Created by a victim of chronic Lyme who continues to suffer, and was told for years and years (until just recently)that there is no Lyme disease in Ireland!  Their stated mission: “Encouraging awareness, prevention & treatment of Lyme Disease (Borreliosis) in Ireland.”

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August 4th, 2010 | Category: Discussion, Lyme News, Personal stories |  Email This Post | Comments (2)

Massachusetts Governor Patrick signed a law which became effective on July 1, 2010 that protects doctors from law suits who prescribe long-term antibiotics for the treatment of Lyme disease.

This makes Massachusetts the fourth state with Connecticut, Rhode Island, and California.

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August 4th, 2010 | Category: Lyme News, Treatment Protocols |  Email This Post | Comments (2)

Hello,

This letter is from Eve Greenberg, to inform you that the Klinghardt Academy of Neurobiology will be closing its doors.

Two years ago, when Dr. Klinghardt asked me to set up an academy to host his seminars, I initially formed a company in which he was the sole member owner.

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August 2nd, 2010 | Category: Lyme News |  Email This Post | Comments (3)

Milford Hospital in Massachusetts has been working for over a year on a new type of diagnostic test for Lyme disease using DNA sequencing rather than DNA nesting.

Huh?

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July 30th, 2010 | Category: Chronic Lyme Disease, Discussion, Lyme News, Research and Development |  Email This Post | Comments (5)

What is ACA?

It is Acrodermatitis Chronica Atrophicans, a skin condition that frequently accompanies late stage Lyme borrelliosis (afzelii) but almost exclusively by those of  European heritage.

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July 30th, 2010 | Category: Chronic Lyme Disease, Lyme News, Neurological Lyme disease, Symptoms |  Email This Post | Comments (4)

One of our readers was kind enough to pass on information about a company paying up to $400 per plasma donation from people who are positively diagnosed with Lyme disease.

At first I thought it was a scam and almost deleted the comment but thankfully I checked it out first.

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July 25th, 2010 | Category: Chronic Lyme Disease, Lyme News |  Email This Post | Comments (2)

Our average patient has been to 10-50 smart, sincere and concerned physicians, but they have not returned to their baseline level of functioning. We also inherit many treatment failures, which allow us to see by indirect and direct diverse types of testing what worked or failed before they came to us.

1. The notion of “Lyme Disease” is a 1990′s notion. If a clinician uses advanced, direct and highly important indirect testing to look for the increasing number of infections carried by deer ticks, it is clear that organisms besides Lyme are present routinely in deer ticks. The idea that deer ticks only carry one infection is a disaster. Deer ticks carry multiple bacteria, parasites, and viruses. For example, Bartonella is far more common than Lyme disease.
2. There is no correct starting dose for virtually any medication. I was asked years ago by two top editors to write an article on “sensitive and careful dosing in clinical practice.” They noticed within my various papers we were pointing out the need for tailored dosing instead of chemical battery. For example, all medications should begin with a first dose that is below a full tablet or capsule, because sometimes it is 20x more effective than normal. Always start with a fraction of the lowest dose pill and this can be increased over a mere 24 hours.Further, one never should increase or start two treatments at once. This is chaos, and causes confusion over the reason for a side effect or a good benefit. Also, if a patient develops uncomfortable feelings, either from the die off of an organism or from medication side effects, they become demoralized, and the cause is unclear with many treatments. Simply, no two people have even been treated by me the same from start to finish, and this is why a cure book on all major tick-borne infections cannot be published.M

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July 23rd, 2010 | Category: Chronic Lyme Disease, Co-infections, Coping with Lyme Disease, Great Imitator, Neurological Lyme disease |  Email This Post | Comments (8)