by Dr. Paul Stallone — Anyone who has struggled with obtaining a proper diagnosis knows that without identifying the disease, treatment can be like throwing darts at the wind. Without a diagnosis, treatment only involves masking symptoms, a practice that may be expensive, long, useless and even life-threatening. Diagnosing Lyme disease can be like […]
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What does Lyme disease look like?
February 28, 2012
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by Brenda Haas-Krieger — Lyme is called “the great imitator” because it can look like so many different ailments. In one person, it may look like fibromyalgia, in another like Parkinson’s and in another, the symptoms may be mostly cognitive. Lyme disease is, therefore, very commonly misdiagnosed. Lyme is most often associated with a tick […]
February 17, 2014
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