Resources

CanLyme: “Lyme disease is on the rise in Canada, yet diagnostics, treatment and public awareness are largely inadequate. The Canadian Lyme Disease Foundation (CanLyme) is dedicated to raising awareness and promoting Lyme Disease research, education and treatment”.

– includes news, videos, Lyme stories and support groups.

ILADS: International Lyme and Associated Diseases Society

Case study: Psychiatrist tells the story about her chronic poor health, her Lyme diagnosis, and symptoms she now recognizes in her patients

LymeMaze: Another Canadian Lyme site with information on test interpretation, finding a Lyme Literate MD, and treatment

Lyme Research site: Lyme and Tick-Borne Diseases Research Center at Columbia University Medical Centre

Lyme Controversies: explanation of Lyme diagnosis controvery

Australian site on interpreting tests: helpful information on interpretation of Western Blot (IGeneX) test results

The New Yorker: the Lyme Wars: July 1, 2013 by Michael Specter. “The Lyme-disease infection rate is growing.  So is the battle over how to treat it.”

Books:

Why Can’t I Get Better? Solving the Mystery of Lyme and Chronic Disease: November 2013 by Dr Richard Horowitz. “Through his years of working with more than 12,000 Lyme disease patients—many of whom had been sick for years and had failed many treatments before they even came to see him—Dr. Richard Horowitz has developed a new way of looking at the complex factors that embody this disease. – See more “

Reversing Chronic Lyme Disease:  June 2013 by Craig Bruner.  A patient collects information on the nature of Lyme disease and its co-infections, and assists in developing a treatment plan to disrupt the calcified biofilm, kill the bacteria and assist with toxicity reactions.

Beyond Lyme Disease: Healing the Underlying Causes of Chronic Illness in People with Borreliosis and Co-Infections. 2012 by Connie Strasheim, with foreword by Lee Cowden M.D.

Insights Into Lyme Disease Treatment: 13 Lyme-Literate Health Care Practitioners Share Their Healing Strategies. 2009 by Connie Strasheim, with foreword by Maureen McShane M.D.