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Nov 30, 2013 · Richard Horowitz MD. Why Can’t I Get Better? Anxiety. Are My Anxiety and Depression Due to Lyme Disease? Tick-borne illnesses imitate common disorders and worsen psychological symptoms....
Once the Lyme bacteria crosses the blood-brain barrier, it can cause nervous system inflammation, which can manifest in a number of ways, including anxiety. In his book Lyme Disease: Medical Myopia and the Hidden Global Pandemic, psychiatrist Bernard Raxlen, MD lists common psychiatric manifestations of Lyme disease, including “OCD [Obsessive ...
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Scientists have witnessed for decades how people have been falsely diagnosed with Lyme disease, in particular those with medically unexplained symptoms, including Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Fibromyalgia. In a 1998 studyfrom Yale of 209 patients with Lyme diagnoses, 60% never had Lyme disease. In that group, patients had a median of four Lyme test...
As with other pseudosciences, chronic Lyme intermixes facts with fiction so it’s difficult to tell the difference. Real Lyme infections can persist without treatment. Therefore, in Europe and in early scientific literature, both untreated Lyme disease and post-treatment symptoms have been referred to as “chronic.” As the CDC and NIHemphasize, exper...
Sometimes lengthy lists of non-specific symptoms are used to justify a false chronic Lyme diagnosis. Research has found that these lists are not helpful because such symptoms are common in the population. Dr. Harriet Hall reviewedone of these symptoms lists and wondered if it could be used to diagnose everyone with chronic Lyme disease. The followi...
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Apr 13, 2022 · Quite simply, it is impossible for the Lyme spirochete to cause this cascading of events. To date, there is no clinical research that attempts to uncover any means by which the Lyme bacteria might actually cause anxiety never mind anxiety as a disorder. It is, however, exceedingly stressful to live with Lyme disease.
Mar 14, 2023 · Depression and anxiety are no strangers to chronic Lyme disease patients. The neuropsychiatric symptoms — defined as involving both neurology and psychiatry — can be debilitating, particularly when added to the physical symptoms of Lyme, and experts suspect the symptoms aren’t just a side effect of struggling with a chronic illness in ...
Sep 17, 2018 · Symptoms. Complications. Diagnosis. Treatment. Outlook. Prevention. What is chronic Lyme disease? Chronic Lyme disease occurs when a person who’s treated with antibiotic therapy for the...
