Lyme disease: Is it or is it not?

This past summer, Lyme disease was the topic of a Focus section in the Globe and Mail (1). In this section, the reporter described her experience of having physicians unable and then unwilling to diagnose her symptoms of "skin on fire, dizziness and chest pains, twitching muscles, and trouble keeping balance" as Lyme disease following a tick bite three years previously on Prince Edward Island. She reported finding support for her diagnosis after obtaining a positive test from a California laboratory and after seeing approximately 20 physicians. In her article, she speaks to the controversy surrounding the diagnosis and treatment of Lyme disease, and the tension it creates between those who believe they have it and the physicians they see.

• Publication year

  2005

• Venue

  The Canadian journal of infectious diseases & medical microbiology = Journal canadien des maladies infectieuses et de la microbiologie medicale

• Publication date

  Unknown publication date

• Fields of study

  Medicine

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1155/2005/278304PMID 18159514PMCID PMC2094998
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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