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The Canadian Lyme Disease Foundation (CanLyme) was created to promote a more complete and comprehensive understanding of Lyme disease and related illnesses through research, education and advocacy to help reduce misdiagnosis and improve treatments for Lyme disease.
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Recognizing symptoms and learning how to talk to your doctor are the first steps towards treatment.
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Understanding Lyme disease is the best way to prevent, diagnose and treat it.
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Recent dispatches
Lyme Carditis Can Cause Sudden Cardiac Death
[ CanLyme note: This report underlines what patients and their concerned physicians have known for years and have tried to…
Lyme sufferers struggle for diagnosis, treatment
Robert Mangelsdorf – Westender October 29, 2014 It started as an odd twitch in her bicep, then a tingling numbness…
A Unique Case of Adolescent Neuroborreliosis Presenting with Multiple Cranial Neuritis and Cochlear Inflammation on Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Abstract Background Lyme disease is the most common vector-borne disease in the United States, and is caused by…
Intracellular Borrelia Spirochaetes Reproduce Inside Erythrocytes
Intracellular Borrelia Spirochaetes Reproduce Inside Erythrocytes The experiment adds to previous work showing borrelia spirochaete invasion of erythrocytes(1).…
Global TV: Lyme disease researcher looks to support groups for information
By Brion Robinson SACKVILLE, N.B. – A Mount Allison University professor says Lyme disease support groups could hold important information…
Assessing the Contribution of Songbirds to the Movement of Ticks and /Borrelia burgdorferi/ in the Midwestern United States During Fall Migration
Abstract: The geographic distributions of Ixodes scapularis (black-legged tick) and the bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi (the causative agent of Lyme…
Where there are ticks, there’s often Lyme disease
Lyme disease is caused by an infection that is most often transmitted by ticks, but it can also be transmitted from mother to child during pregnancy.
Ticks can attach to your body without being seen or felt, and diagnosis can be difficult due to symptom presentation, testing protocols and other challenges.
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Danette’s Story
I stood up and walked out [of my doctor’s office] without saying a word. My way of saying, ‘you’re…
Jim’s Story
The saga continued…each time I stopped the antibiotics, all of my symptoms returned with a bang. Then after being…
Chuck’s Story
Now that I am feeling better every day I just want to run, jump and holler like a child…
Sharon’s Story
My shoulder was so bad it become frozen. One morning I woke up and could not move my legs.…
Kate’s Story
Most Canadian doctors are not familiar with Lyme disease and have not been trained to recognize it. The simple…
Kelly’s Story
Kelly’s condition has improved to about 90% of her pre-Lyme state. She has very little arthritic symptoms, her cardiac…
Sydney’s Story
I have a story to tell about a strange illness I have had for over 2 years. It could…
Janet’s Story
Four days [after treatment] the symptoms disappeared and I stopped using the wheelchair. After nine days, my blood pressure…
David’s Story
I fear that my body now lacks the strength to tolerate the cure, but I have told my story…