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May 21st, 2017
With tick season underway, a Canadian woman shares her personal story of living with Lyme disease and the years of being misdiagnosed and misunderstood. Allison Vuchnich reports.
Dr. Doug Sider, Public Health Ontario, says Lyme is under-reported at least 10 fold.
May 18th, 2023 May is Lyme Disease Awareness Month, and CanLyme is hosting an on-demand screening of the critically acclaimed documentary, The Quiet Epidemic during the week of May 19th. For the past two decades, CanLyme has been listening to the voices of people who have encountered ongoing roadblocks while trying to access adequate healthcare for Lyme…
June 11th, 2014 OTTAWA – Elizabeth May’s Private Members Bill, C-442, An Act respecting a Federal Framework on Lyme Disease, has passed through 3rd reading with the unanimous consent of the House of Commons. Bill C-442 will now be referred to the Senate, where it will be sponsored by Senator Janis Johnson and taken up…
[CanLyme Note: Both AIDS and Lyme disease arose as an issue in the late 1970’s with the first case of Lyme reported in Quebec in 1977. As pointed out in this piece, since then there have been over 11,000 clinical trials for AIDS yet only 60 for Lyme disease. Lyme disease research funding in Canada…
Friday, November 07, 2014 “My office uncovered undisclosed financial interests held by several of the most powerful IDSA panelists. The IDSA’s guideline panel improperly ignored or minimized consideration of alternative medical opinion and evidence regarding chronic Lyme disease, potentially raising serious questions about whether the recommendations reflected all relevant science.” – Connecticut Attorney General Richard…
Ticks Tick Borne Dis. 2013 Apr;4(3):191-6. doi: 10.1016/j.ttbdis.2012.12.002. Epub 2013 Feb 15. Leydet BF Jr, Liang FT. Source Department of Pathobiological Sciences, School of Veterinary Medicine, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, USA. Electronic address: bleyde1 [at] tigers [dot] lsu [dot] edu. Abstract There are 4 major human-biting tick species in the northeastern United States,…
By Jamie Komarnicki, Calgary Herald May 20, 2014 7:28 PM With the number of confirmed Lyme disease cases rising in Alberta, the provincial government is going into the field for the first time to try to get a handle on whether the ticks that can transmit the bacteria to humans are surviving through the winter….
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I’m also a Lyme Warrior. I was misdiagnosed for 12yrs & finally found out all my ailments were because of Lyme Disease. I kept going to my Dr. Complaining of fatigue & chronic pain & of course they chalked it up to Fibromyalgia , Chronic Fatigue & Arthritis. I’m now very sick because it took so long to properly diagnose it. This disease is debilitating & can be deadly. When left untreated, it attacks the central nervous system, your joints, connective tissues, muscles & especially the brain. It’s been a living nightmare. There are so many of us out there suffering with this & can’t get the help we need in this country. The Canadian Medical Assc. Should be ashamed of themselves because they’ve really dropped the ball on this one.
I’m sorry to hear of all your struggles and I’m sure terrible frustration . I also struggle with many symptoms of Lymes but Dr’s are not able to diagnose me only saying fibro myalgia or depression? My symptoms are getting worse especially with cognitive and very low blood pressure. I would like to ask you how we’re you finally diagnosed? With a definite diagnosis of Lymes disease.