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

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

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. Sphere: Related Content

Posted on August 4th, 2010 under Lyme News, Treatment Protocols. Comments: 2

Klinghardt Academy of Neurobiology is Closing its Doors.

Posted on August 2nd, 2010 under Lyme News. Comments: 3

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

Acrodermatitis chronica atrophicans is a skin condition that takes a progressive course that leads to atrophy of the skin in a variety of ways but sharing certain common characteristics.

Not surprisingly, involvement of the peripheral nervous system is frequently observed as a part of ACA (numbness, tingling, pain…)

As we know, clinical manifestations of Lyme borreliosis are almost unlimited. They can affect the skin, nervous system, muscles, joints eyes, ears, any organ including the heart. With ACA, the skin becomes papery thin and almost shiny and transparent so that the blood vessels, veins, arteries and tissue can be seen through the skin in various degrees which give the skin a pinkish/bluish color.

Posted on July 30th, 2010 under Chronic Lyme Disease, Lyme News, Neurological Lyme disease, Symptoms. Comments: 4

SeraCare develops and manufactures the highest quality, biologically-based products, and offers a broad range of related services, backed by impressive combined expertise in virology, serology, immunology, and molecular biology. They are seeking plasma donors with positive diagnosis of Lyme disease and willing to pay on a regular basis for the plasma donations.

For those of us who suffer with Lyme disease and the financial devastation it brings, this could make the difference between feeding your children and struggling to a soup kitchen.

Posted on July 25th, 2010 under Chronic Lyme Disease, Lyme News. Comments: 2

Tick and flea-borne infections cause isolation. They ruin relationships due to resulting fogginess, poor insight, depression, various addictions, rage, extreme hostility – even violence – and refusal to get treatment. Bartonella is likely the worst offender, but Lyme and Babesia and their die-offs can also increase these problems. Isolation leads to decreased treatment options. It can ultimately lead to divorce and the loss of family relationships and friendships. This, in turn, leads to decreased resources and support while ill. Isolated humans, as Mother Teresa often said, are the poorest beings on earth.

Posted on July 22nd, 2010 under Chronic Lyme Disease, Co-infections, Coping with Lyme Disease, Great Imitator, Lyme News. Comments: 5

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