04/21/2025
🔥🙁ALERT- Office closed today 🔥😔
This is apparently the year that keeps on giving. As I’ve told several of you, I have been battling Lyme disease the past several months. It took a while to figure out, but I began the treatment/doxycycline. Overall, it’s going as well as can be expected. Today, however, it finally got the best of me and I needed the day to rest.
While many people feel the need to hide or not disclose personal health information (which is their right that I respect), I feel as a healthcare provider if I can use it to help people why not. 
Firstly, Lyme disease is a bacterial infection caused by Borrelia burgdorferi, transmitted primarily through the bite of infected black-legged ticks (often called deer ticks).
Early symptoms (3–30 days after bite):
• Erythema migrans (bull’s-eye rash) at the bite site
• Fatigue
• Fever, chills
• Headache
• Muscle and joint aches
• Swollen lymph nodes
Mid-stage symptoms (weeks to months later):
• Multiple rashes
• Facial palsy (Bell’s palsy)
• Migratory joint pain, especially knees
• Nerve pain, numbness, or tingling
• Heart palpitations or Lyme carditis
• Dizziness or shortness of breath
If left untreated, it can advance to life-threatening conditions as it attacks your nervous system.
This is why I feel it’s one of those classic do everything you can examples in healthcare. I strongly recommend the necessary medications (in this case doxycycline for 30 days), but also highly recommend helping your body be at its best. This of course includes Chiropractic adjustments, light exercise (like walking, if tolerated), gut healthy foods like Kiefer/probiotics (ideally not within several hours before or after the antibiotic), and of course, plenty of rest and hydration.
Lastly, FWIW, I never found a tick on me. This is estimated to happen in approximately 50 to 70% of all lyme cases. In my near 20 years of dealing with tens of thousands of people, I find the most common things people with lyme bring to me are unexplained joint pain, (especially in the weight-bearing joints like knees) and achiness in the fingers. A Hallmark sign is that it tends to be transient or inconsistent, meaning it can come and go for no apparent reason. If you have any of these things or know people that do, especially in the New England area where lime is very prevalent, it can’t hurt to go and request both an ELISA test and a western blot test to confirm. 
Hope this helps and y’all have a great day 🙏😊
