Jenna’s Lyme Blog

The Haseltons said that for months, doctors couldn’t figure out the cause of his fatigue or swollen knee.”When he couldn’t stand on his leg and every night he’s holding ice packs on it, I knew there was something really wrong,” Lin Haselton said.

She said she watched a special New Hampshire chronicle called “Living with Lyme,” and she recognized her husband’s symptoms.”I’m so glad that I saw the show,” she said.”I got home from (playing) golf and she said, ‘Steve, you have Lyme disease. There was a special on WMUR on Lyme disease, and there was a gentleman on there that had the same condition as you did,’” Steve Haselton said.

Posted on August 8th, 2010 under Discussion, Lyme News. Comments: None

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.

The beautiful silver lining of this horrible disease is the wonderful friendships that are forged through the shared experience of Lyme that has been made possible through this blog and through a handful of forums I participate in.

Some people are still able to work with their disease, but due to the extent of my pain and weakness, I have been bedridden for much of four years and have struggled to find ways to earn money on the internet.

For those of you who aren’t familiar with the term, big companies pay individuals and small companies with websites or blogs (or through emails) affiliate commissions on their products.

Posted on August 7th, 2010 under Chronic Lyme Disease, Coping with Lyme Disease, Discussion, Product Reviews. 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.” Sphere: [...]

Posted on August 4th, 2010 under Discussion, Lyme News, Personal stories. Comments: 2

There are many problems with the PCR test but the largest being (in my opinion) that by the time a person is diagnosed by the ELIZA antibody test and then the western blot, a PCR will likely be negative due to the time it takes for the spirochetes to disseminate into the victim’s body.

If however, this new DNA sequencing test could replace the ELIZA test and be administered immediately, we would have a much better chance of diagnosing Lyme early, treating it early and reducing the number of missed cases that end up as debilitating chronic cases.

Posted on July 30th, 2010 under Chronic Lyme Disease, Discussion, Lyme News, Research and Development. Comments: 5

The entire article, “The Plague of Ignorance Regarding the Ignorance of a Plague” (Chronic Lyme Disease) by Dr. Scott Taylor

Posted on July 21st, 2010 under Chronic Lyme Disease, Coping with Lyme Disease, Discussion. Comments: 3

It is one thing to lump a couple hundred of sufferers into a group of psychosomatic patients…but how do medical doctors respond to the hundreds of thousands of Lyme sufferers from all 50 states who are becoming more ill and increasingly fragile?

It is time for medical doctors to take their heads out of the sand and re-commit their allegiance to the Hippocratic Oath

Posted on July 19th, 2010 under Chronic Lyme Disease, Discussion, Lyme News, Personal stories, Research and Development, Symptoms, Treatment Protocols. Comments: 6

A group of clever researchers from Cornell have studied the anti-neural antibody reactivity in the brain of patients who have “Post Lyme Disease Syndrome” as compared to healthy people who have recovered from Lyme disease (and a control group of healthy people who have not had Lyme disease) in an effort to analyze the immune [...]

Posted on June 24th, 2010 under Chronic Lyme Disease, Discussion, Neurological Lyme disease, Research and Development. Tags: Chronic Lyme disease, Emerging research about neurological Lyme disease, Post Lyme Disease Syndrome. Comments: 1

The reason Vitamin C was chosen for such an important Lyme fighting role is that Vitamin C is truly a nutrient extraordinaire. Research abounds to show that vitamin C is a key vital substance required for many fundamental processes in the body, including the biosynthesis of collagen, the activation of the fat-transporting molecule, carnitine; it assists in the manufacture of the hormones adrenaline and cortisone; it acts as an electron transporter in many enzymatic reactions; it helps protect the integrity of blood vessels; it is a promoter of healthy gums, an important factor in radiation protection, a regulator of cholesterol levels, a free radical detoxifier and an immune-specific, boosting agent.

Posted on May 7th, 2010 under Chronic Lyme Disease, Coping with Lyme Disease, Discussion, Product Reviews, Treatment Protocols. Tags: chronic l, Salt/C Protocol, Vitamin C, yme disease. Comments: 4

Gary Wormser, MD, lead author of the IDSA guidelines, attributes many chronic Lyme symptoms to “the aches and pains of daily living.”

Posted on May 5th, 2010 under Chronic Lyme Disease, Coping with Lyme Disease, Discussion, Lyme News, Personal stories. Tags: Chronic Lyme disease, Undr Our Skin, Violence. Comments: 3