Most Lyme patients have to go through hell and high water to get a diagnosis.

Shortly afterward, state inspectors visited his office, he said, and took files of Lyme patients.

Dr. Asch has been working on a long-term follow-up of Lyme patients from Westchester.

And how about helping disabled Lyme patients get disability payments, help with tasks of daily living and transportation to their doctors?

He was the first well-known Lyme patient in Finland.

Lyme patients battle daily with their own bodies, doubting physicians, uncertain futures, inadequate medications and unsupportive families, friends and employers.

Patient-advocate groups say a new law is needed to stop the financial devastation Lyme patients face because of the cost of home intravenous treatment.

He pointed to the absence of published studies showing benefits from the use of long-term antibiotics in large numbers by Lyme patients.

The portrayal of Lyme patients as hysterics is a tired, fallacious narrative that appears with great frequency in the pages of The Times.

One study shows some acute-phase seronegative Lyme patients have antibodies bound up in these complexes.