What Is “Lyme Anxiety?”

Leonard Sigal, MD, clinical professor and former chief of the Division of Rheumatology at Robert Wood Johnson UMDNJ Medical School, explains the term “Lyme anxiety” and its associated with a chronic Lyme disease diagnosis.

[ookipuki]

THIS WAS ONLY 2 YEARS AGO????

*WAKE UP PEOPLE* TAKE THIS SERIOUSLY! IT'S VERY VERY VERY SERIOUS 😠😡

[greatnews]

Said from someone who never had Lyme anxiety, he’s full of crock!

[Shewolfen]

not a good video. I thought this would be about 'anxiety like' biological symptoms associated with Lyme infection (that can be misdiagnosed as phycologically induced anxiety), symptoms of CNS disfunction such as heart palpatations, tremor, etc. This man is talking about something else, which its valid not to assume something is JUST Lyme and the need to not panic and rule out other conditions. But Lyme shouldn't be passed off either because you find additional contributing conditions. His response seems very flippant! People are seriously ill, tortured and desparate for help! Or course they are to the point of hysteria when they have doctors telling them nothing is wrong!

[l.c.]

This is not an I L A DS doctor, so to be expected! I just hope that people researching Lyme realize there's a huge difference between an ILADS doctor and an Infectious disease control doctor - two completely different schools of thought, treatment, and especially training.

[lisasdayoff]

I don't have hysteria. I don't think I'm not going to be here to watch my children grow up. I think I feel and I need to feel better and all the things match. They match the things from the CDC now you tell me why they're wrong

[TruthCures]

This guy should be in prison. See the Lyme Cryme movie at YouTube.com/c/TruthCures

[MRatna]

This is depressing, disappointing, arrogant, condescending…. The person who comes in with an erythma migrans has ‘done some research’ but the patient concerned about chronic Lyme heard it 'from someone at the grocery store checkout’ or 'saw it on the internet'. Are there no physical findings? Nothing you can point to? Not all diseases come with something so apparent as a bullseye rash. Very few do actually. Many cases of acute lyme never produce the hallmark rash.

I can absolutely understand the need for physical evidence. Learn to really read a Western Blot test (and learn about the history of how they’ve been produced). Consider a PCR test. You don’t have to be Dr House.

One highly respected ID doctor dismissed the results of my western blot test because he didn’t think much of the lab. Fair enough. When I suggested that we run it through another lab he refused because he didn’t believe in chronic Lyme. By my way of thinking ‘belief’ should have no place in science. If you wish to practice evidence based medicine you must first be willing to consider new evidence. Only then will we be able to come up with more definitive tests and more effective treatments.

[sandrap]

When days after tick removal your life as you knew it ceases to exist, when every waking moment you are reminded that your brain & body are battling some powerful invading organism(s) thats winning & taking over, when medical professionals shrug & treat you like you are a hypochondriac or even worse, that you are just trying to get pain medicine, when days drag on into months with no relief in sight from the constant muscle twitching, bone/muscle pain, fatigue, blurry vision, hearing impairment, headache, when 2 different antibiotics don't work & you have given up all hope that your arms & legs will ever feel or function normal again, yet still praying that you will wake up, when you able to sleep, from this nightmare, then you can go ahead & label me as having lyme anxiety.