After Decades of Dismissal, Chronic Lyme Disease Is Now Recognized

Patients with persistent Lyme symptoms face medical limbo as federal officials and researchers debate causes, treatment, and what to call the condition.
After Decades of Dismissal, Chronic Lyme Disease Is Now Recognized
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“Like a human hockey puck”—that’s how Nikki Schultek describes a year spent ricocheting between specialists in Connecticut, each focused on one piece of her deteriorating health—bladder pain, neurological symptoms, joint pain—while missing the whole picture.

“I really don’t fault the clinicians,” she told The Epoch Times. “The training hones them to be experts in a domain.”

Cara Michelle Miller
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Cara Michelle Miller is a health reporter for The Epoch Times. She covers both health news and in-depth features on emerging health issues. Prior to taking up writing, she taught at the Pacific College of Health and Science in NYC for 12 years and led communication seminars for engineering students at The Cooper Union.