How Does Lyme Affect One’s Eyes? If you join any Lyme disease or tick borne illness forum, you are likely to see patients complaining about their eyes or vision. It seems that these are the common complaints related to vision…
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Treating Vision Problems caused by Lyme Disease with Antibiotics and Steroids
Written by Dr John Drulle: “I have used steroids in Lyme patients, but only in very selected circumstances. In patients who have presented with eye involvement with rapidly deteriorating vision, such as optic neuritis or uveitis, the combination of high…
Lyme Disease Symptoms and Stages
The following symptoms were excerpted from Diagnostic Hints And Treatment Guidelines For Lyme And Other Tick Borne Illnesses, by Joseph J. Burrascano Jr., M.D. (Fifteenth Edition 2008). Borrelia (Borreliosis, neuroborreliosis; also known as Lyme Disease) Spread primarily though the bite of…
Bizarre Symptoms of the Eyes with Lyme Disease
If you experience cloudy vision, light sensitivity, height or depth instability, image delay, moving object illusion, floaters, hallucinations, or textual bombardment…it could possibly be caused by Lyme Disease. Please read full article here.
Vision Symptoms from Lyme Disease
This list taken from: Lyme Research Alliance Eye, Vision: Double or blurry vision, vision changes Wandering or lazy eye Conjunctivitis (pink eye) Oversensitivity to light Eye pain or swelling around eyes Floaters/spots in the line of sight Red eyes See…
Ophthalmic Aspects of Lyme Disease Overview of Lyme Disease from Medscape
Ophthalmic Aspects of Lyme Disease Overview of Lyme Disease Author: Gerald W Zaidman, MD; Chief Editor: Hampton Roy Sr, MD Lyme disease is the most common arthropod-related disease in the United States, Europe, and portions of Japan. The disease is transmitted…