Jenna’s Lyme Blog

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

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

On June 18, 2010, Dr. Cameron released a scientific paper that is sending shock waves through the medical community for the rigorous standard of testing and reporting, with explosive conclusions which at the very least will demand further testing, especially when you begin to evaluate medical records showing the terrible suffering of children that could have been avoided with more proactive and serious treatment at the initial exposure to Lyme infection.

Posted on June 24th, 2010 under Chronic Lyme Disease, Research and Development. Tags: Chronic Lyme disease, Lyme disease epidemic, Research on Lyme Disease. Comments: 1

In 2009, “Science Magazine” published a newly released paper from Whittemore Peterson Institute about the existence of XMRV, (which stands for xenotropic murine leukemia virus related virus,) which looked to be a causative agent in CFS, Fibromyalgia, Prostate Cancer and several other neuro-immune disorders.

The race was on.

All around the world there were doors opened for research scientists to apply this remarkable discovery and try to find better diagnostic tools, better treatment and of course – the great career maker – finding a cure.

Posted on May 20th, 2010 under Chronic Lyme Disease, Neurological Lyme disease, Personal stories, Research and Development. Tags: CFS/ME, Chronic Lyme disease, Fibromyalgia, XMRV. Comments: 5

The breakthrough began in 2002, when molecular biologist Bonnie Bassler, bearing her microscope on a microbe that lives in the gut of fish, isolated an elusive molecule called AI-2, and uncovered the mechanism behind mysterious behavior called quorum sensing — or bacterial communication.

Posted on April 20th, 2010 under Chronic Lyme Disease, Lyme News, Research and Development. Tags: Bacteria, Bonnie Bassler, Chronic Lyme disease. Comments: 2

Lyme, as we know, is transmitted by ticks. When it moves through the tick, it is coated with a tick salivary protein known as Salp15. The Yale team injected Salp15 into healthy mice and found that it significantly protected the mice from getting Lyme disease. When combined with outer surface proteins of B. burgdorferi, the protection was even greater.

Posted on January 16th, 2010 under Chronic Lyme Disease, Lyme News, Personal stories, Research and Development, Symptoms, Treatment Protocols. Tags: Chronic Lyme disease, Lyme vaccine, tick, tick saliva, Yale. Comments: None

Unfortunately for those of us with chronic Lyme disease; all of our symptoms, the intense unbearable pain and the clear evidence of disease – the IDSA does not acknowledge the existence of chronic Lyme disease. The IDSA guidelines are clearly no longer appropriate for handling Lyme disease due to the mounting evidence of the morphic and antibiotic-resistant disease. Well, it took the medical community a long time to figure out Lyme’s cousin, syphilis, too.

Posted on January 15th, 2010 under Chronic Lyme Disease, Discussion, Lyme News, Research and Development. Tags: Chronic Lyme disease, IDSA, IDSA Treatment Guidelines, Treatment for Lyme Disease. Comments: None

Boulder Diagnostics, is dedicated to the development of point of care lateral flow diagnostic assays, and is currently developing products to detect elevated homocysteine levels and for the diagnosis of Lyme disease.

Posted on January 14th, 2010 under Chronic Lyme Disease, Lyme News, Research and Development. Tags: Chronic Lyme disease, diagnosing Lyme, elevated homocysteine levels. Comments: 1