It's Not "Summer Flu" ... And Other Lies Doctors Tell You About Lyme.

May 12, 2026

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May is Lyme Disease Awareness month.

Let’s celebrate by debunking some of the lies medical professionals tell people about Lyme disease (Borrelia burgdorferi), which impacts more than 600,000 people per year in the U.S. — and this is just for surveillance cases reported to the CDC, so the real number is likely much higher

1. “Lyme disease is hard to get / rare / not in this area.”

Reality: Cases have been reported in all 50 states. Lyme is endemic in the Northeast, Upper Midwest, Mid-Atlantic and parts of West Coast.

2. “You need a bull’s-eye rash (erythema migrans) to have Lyme.”

Reality: Only about 20% of patients with an erythema migrans rash in the United States present with lesions that have the central clearing of a classic target ‘ring-within-a-ring’ or ‘bull’s eye’. Many have no rash or atypical ones. Diagnosis can be clinical in endemic areas with compatible symptoms.

3. “If you don’t remember a tick bite, it can’t be Lyme.”

Reality: Nymphal ticks are tiny and many bites go unnoticed, and spring is when nymphal ticks are most active. They are really small — smaller than the head of a pin — so it can be difficult to detect them. Lack of recalled bite does not rule it out.

4. “The standard blood test is reliable and rules out Lyme if negative.”

Reality: Two-tier testing (ELISA + Western blot) misses many early cases since antibodies take weeks to develop, and can produce both false negatives and positives. Clinical diagnosis is key in early/acute cases. Specialized or “Lyme-literate” tests can yield important results, especially once the disease is fully disseminated, but don't expect your regular doctor to know about and/or offer these tests.

5. “You've got the summer flu.”

Reality: If you're experiencing myalgias, arthralgias, vomiting, headaches, vertigo, and even cardiovascular instability anytime from now through the fall, consider that these symptoms could have been caused by a tick bite. It's most likely not the "summer flu" but it could be a rickettsial illness.

6. “A short course of antibiotics (10–30 days) always cures Lyme.”

Reality: Treatment often requires a minimum of at least six weeks (not a single prophylactic dose or a few weeks of doxycycline as the CDC suggests), and that goes even for early detection. It could take more than a year of treatment for a late stage infection and/or if co-infections are present. Naturopathic support plays a vital role in helping the body recover from the infection, supporting the immune system, and managing inflammation.

7. “There is no such thing as chronic Lyme disease / persistent infection.”

Reality: Persistent symptoms (e.g., fatigue, pain, cognitive issues) are real, similar to post-COVID or other post-infectious syndromes, can be debilitating, and impact more than a third of Lyme patients. Debate continues on whether this results from residual inflammation, autoimmune response, or persistent infection. However a long list of research suggests persistent infection.

8. “Your symptoms are all in your head / psychosomatic / depression/anxiety.”

Reality: Lyme is a neurological disease, bacteria driven, multisystem, immunosuppressive, and wreaks havoc on your brain, nervous system and other organs. Many Lyme sufferers are "misdiagnosed as bipolar or schizophrenic and then institutionalized" when they are actually suffering from Lyme encephalitis. There's not exactly a "blood test" to confirm depression, and unfortunately too many doctors seem eager to hand out SSRIs before considering other potential causes of psychiatric conditions.

9. “Mothers can't transmit Lyme disease to their unborn children.”

Reality: A new peer-reviewed article in Frontiers in Medicine points to observational research demonstrating that Lyme spirochetes can be transmitted from a mother to her unborn child; the scientists are requesting recognition by both the CDC and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for mother-to-child transmission.

10. "Lyme disease is not a bioweapon."

Reality: Declassified documents link the U.S. bioweapons program to Lyme disease outbreaks, and show the military released 282,800 radioactive ticks and suppressed co-infection research for 40 years. This includes evidence the government's Plum Island facility “frequently conducted its experiments out of doors” and that “deer from Lyme regularly swam to Plum Island, and local birds flew there to feed on insects,” creating direct pathways for laboratory pathogens to spread.

Conclusion

Untreated or disseminated Lyme can affect your nerves, heart, joints, and brain (neuroborreliosis), causing more than 430 different conditions — some of which can be fatal. Unfortunately, doctors don’t always tell you (or even know) when a condition could have been caused by a tick bite. That means it’s up to you to educate yourself about the potential for Lyme — aka the “great imitator” — to be the source of your mysterious or ongoing medical problems.

Conditions / Co-Infections associated with Lyme Disease

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1 month ago

After ‘COVID’, who trusts the medical establishment anymore ?! By the way, what created the Look-At-Me-See-How-Nice-I-Am Syndrome ? It is destroying our country. On a massive scale, it allowed our country to be overrun with illegal aliens !!! Lie-berals are liable to lie ! Truth is endangered.

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