The CDC Reports 476,000 New Lyme Cases a Year — Only 35,000 Are Actually Diagnosed #shorts

Did you know chronic Lyme disease isn't real? And there's actually no Lyme disease in Central Virginia where I'm from. That's what I was told in 2007 by a local infectious disease doctor when I saw my very first case of Lyme— cat Lyme disease. I'd been in the military for 4 years, didn't see the Medical College of Virginia for the 7 years I was there doing my education, traveled around the world, went to Ecuador, and eventually ended up back in Richmond. And saw a person with a rash after a tick bite, didn't quite know what to do. And I was told by the infectious disease doctor, this is not a thing. Yet the CDC says there's about 476,000 new cases every year of Lyme disease in our country. To put this in perspective, that's more cases than breast cancer, which is about 300,000 a year. However, only 35,000 of that 476,000 cases are actually diagnosed. What's the point? There are many diseases, illnesses that are common, commonly overlooked, but are mystery. We don't know what they are, etc., etc., that in our standard care way of thinking, we miss them all the time. And Lyme disease is one of those. So if you're someone who had Lyme disease, the diagnosis was missed, it took years to get diagnosed, share below. We have a ton of resources on Lyme disease on our website, blogs. We've done actually a lot of podcasts on this. This— we actually deal a lot with it here in Central Virginia. And over the last, you know, since 2007, I've had to kind of become a Lyme disease expert because there's nowhere else for my patients to go. So I'd love to hear your story about Lyme. Have you dealt with it in your journey? How did you get back to health and healing? Because that's ultimately what we're back about, is getting people on the road to healing and health. Take care. We'll talk to you soon.