It Takes All Of Us To Change The Face Of Lyme Disease

Jeanne

Jeanne

We need to keep educating!

Francesca Sales

Francesca Sales

AWARENESS is KEY!

Brandi Dean

Brandi Dean

This is great! Thank you so much for getting the word out! I've been fighting Lyme for 7 months now. Everyone needs to be more informed on what Lyme disease can do and how it should be treated. Thank you so much ILADS!

Lizzie Neal

Lizzie Neal

Thank you ILADS for all you are doing to get the word out to the public and educating physicians on the daunting realities of Lyme disease.

Laurie Pierce Lincoln

Laurie Pierce Lincoln

I've been living with Lyme and coinfections for more than 10 years. What we need is lyme literate doctors and public. This knowledge saves lives and gives hope to many hopeless and hurting people.

Michelle Gulka

Michelle Gulka

Fantastic for Lyme Disease to finally be recognized as a real illness! Thanks so much for helping other people get the help they need!

Ingrid McAdam

Ingrid McAdam

Thanks for all your hard work...Nova Scotia, Canada. My message: We are dying... Santa can YOU just ask the Dr's to help us?

Linda Lehman w/daughter Kelly

Linda Lehman w/ daughter Kelly

Grateful to be alive...and holding a vision of recovery for all! Thank you ILADS for all you do. Awareness and education are key!

Kelly Lehman

Kelly Lehman

For those of us who have been questioned, told we were crazy, been misdiagnosed and disrespected, I am beyond ecstatic that lyme is finally starting to really come to the forefront. It has been, and continues to be, truly the hardest and most amazing journey of my life and I am so happy that this illness is finally starting to get the respect is has deserved. For those who have lost their lives to this disease you have not died in vain. You have helped in paving the way towards prevention, appropriate treatment and most important, the spreading of awareness about lyme disease.

Kim Straughn

Kim Straughn

I praise God for this organization. Every human being that is sick with a disease deserves to be heard, understood and supported into recovery. Thank You for all you are doing to help those of us with LYME DISEASE!!!

Dr. Barbara Weitkus

Dr. Barbara Weitkus

Since 2003 I have approximately 300 children treated consistently as a pediatrician, individually and in the long term. Chronic persistent Lyme and Associated Diseases , which are also present in children, are highly underestimated and the most undiagnosed, incorrectly or not therapied diseases. Physicians from all disciplines are invited to participate in the study and treatment of this disease.

Barbara Montrond

Barbara Montrond

Been sick for so long.... Maybe we will get treatment after all!! Thank you so much!

Gail Mckee

Gail Mckee

I've had Lyme disease since 2009,It can be really debilitating and exhausting!Please be aware that Lyme is for real. We need everyone to be aware of this disease.

Barbara Hunter

Barbara Hunter

I like the message!

Carol McTavish

Carol McTavish

I look at this photo and think of the time before Lyme Disease when I could hike and work and not have pain. Here's to looking at life through a glass half full and Hope. There's always hope.

Dorothy Ferrandino Jakab

Dorothy Ferrandino Jakab

I remember being bitten in the mountains of Italy when I was little and have had "issues" since. It was only that I come to the realization with a new tick bite in 2007 that I found to have had Lyme Disease all these years. I was very ill and with the help of my LLD, I am better now. Now that I am treated, I can enjoy my life with my husband and daughter Isabella that you see pictured. A big giant "thank you" to my LLD AND his staff for helping me gain my life back; it was a long few years and a long road but well worth it. I love them dearly.

Nancy Moitrier

Nancy Moitrier

We need more people to understand our struggles. We need acknowledgement, we need a CURE!

Chris Teubner

Chris Teubner

The only reason I am alive today is because of long term treatment of antibiotics. Thank you to those few Doctors that grasp this illness.

Jayne Shamon

Jayne Shamon

Although oftentimes we are told you look so good most days we feel so sick we don't know how long we can go on like this. whenever I go to see my LYME LITERATE doctor I look at the eyes of the other patients and I see myself, it always shows in the eyes...help us find a cure and fight for the same rights allowed to those with other diseases. I have had Lyme since 1975 when I developed a rash all over my body in New Hampshire, and was not diagnosed until 1997 when hospitalized for intense vertigo, this disease has taken jobs, relationships, friendships and my will to live many times, we need you too,,,thank you for your support.

Kenneth Mercure

Kenneth Mercure

Lyme Disease has been hanging over my shoulder for nearly 18 years and change needs to happen if people who are suffering from this horrible disease are ever going to be treated equally by the medical profession and allowed access to proper treatment without being denied by the insurance companies. Thank you ILADS, for all that you do. It means to the world to all of us!!

Michele A Reed

Michele A Reed

Peak of my life in 2003. Bulls Eye Rash in 2004. Misdiagnosed until 2006...still being treated 2011. What I want most in life: A good night's rest without pain...priceless!

MARCIA IVEY SNEAD

MARCIA IVEY SNEAD

FINALLY THOSE OF US WHO LIVE AND SUFFER WITH THIS DEADLY DISEASE ARE BEING RECOGNIZED THANK GOD!!

Cindy Mitchell

Cindy Mitchell

Thanks ILADS for all your work getting LYME Disease in the public eye.

Nancy Brooks

Nancy Brooks

I have had Lyme for 14 years, finally diagnosed in 2008. I am happy to see your organization is alerting the public about Lyme disease. This will provide awsreness so more people will get educated. Thank you

Christian

Christian

Please help for a better understanding.

Patricia & Jon Montag

Patricia & Jon Montag

Awesome idea to spread the word of Lyme and associated diseases. Thank you!!

Jennifer Brillantes

Jennifer Brillantes

I am thankful that awareness is finally growing about this debilitating and life altering disease that affect so many all around the world

Michelle Seay

Michelle Seay

Thanks for getting the word out! We are the face of Lyme Disease.

Shelley Mack

Shelley Mack

I am so happy you are doing this campaign. I have chronic lyme and have been through hell the last 3 years. I am just starting to feel like a normal person again. Thanks!

Deborah Salvant

Deborah Salvant

I suffered with many problems for nine years, including loss of vision in my right eye. I was finally diagnosed with have RMSF but, it has done much damage to my organs. I am now an advocate with my local support group. My grandaughter, sister, four friends and two in-laws have Lyme Disease. THANK YOU for helping to bring awareness to people, I DO believe the estimates that say that an estimated one in ten people in America have some form of tick related disease!

Diane Huntington

Diane Huntington

It is so encouraging to see Lyme getting the attention it deserves. I have been misdiagnosed with numerous diseases until I finally went to see a LLMD. Although I just started treatment, I can now function almost like my old self!

Rebekah Knieper

Rebekah Knieper

We need this here in Germany!!!!

Nickki Honeycutt

Nickki Honeycutt

I have been dignosed with Chronic Lyme Disease, so has my husband and two out of three children. Everyday presents a challenge to get through work, school and daily life. The financial impact because of Lyme disease on my family is overwhelming.

Matthew Curo

Matthew Curo

Lyme and co-infections has significantly changed my whole life. I was a student, in college and doing well, and working. Cycling was a passion of mine, as well as jogging and hiking. This condition can totally derail a person. There needs to be heightened awareness, on this very deadly, and hard to treat illness!

Chris Powell

Chris Powell

what a great way to bring awareness.

Sylvia R.

Sylvia R.

After five years of unbelievable suffering, 20 physicians consulted in two states and thousands of hours spent on personal research and testing. I was finally diagnosed 2.5 months ago. My delay in diagnosis has made a devastating impact on my life. Thank you for for creating much needed awareness of chronic Lyme disease. This disease does really exist in the southeastern US! Physicians in Georgia and Florida need to be educated on the facts and be given specific training and freedom to treat chronic lyme patients properly, so we do not have to pay to travel to the northeast to see a qualified Lyme Literate physician.

Amber Chapman

Amber Chapman

Much gratitude for bringing awareness to the hidden epidemic of Chronic Lyme Disease! I'm heart-broken that my disease could have been caught in 2005 when I first contracted it by way of a deer tick in Connecticut. I was tested for Lyme by the top infectious disease doctor in Chicago, surely someone you can trust. Yet he had to adhere to a governing body's guidelines/criteria and said I didn’t have it when I really did. In 2006 I was tested again by a neurologist: same story. Doctors are afraid to go against the guidelines of the Infectious Disease Society of America (IDSA) as they could lose their licenses. Why the doctors just didn't go ahead and treat me I'll never know. I just wish I had known then what I know now. I'm hopeful that I will make a full recovery and will live to prevent the needless suffering of others. It would mean the world to me if you would please help me spread the word!

Ana Castaneda

Ana Castaneda

You guys are doing such an AMAZING job on raising awareness about Lyme. It's extremely difficult for patients as it is to have doctors telling you you're crazy.. or have nothing at all...Please keep it up.. its so inspiring. My grandma, my mom and I will definitely work on raising awareness in Mexico.

Liz Schmitz

Liz Schmitz

What a terrific way to encourage the public to become educated about Lyme disease! Thanks and keep up the great work, ILADS!

M Wittnebert

M Wittnebert

Thank you for this....maybe someone will finally lisyen!