Blog Archives - Lyme Disease UK

Aaron O’Connell runs the Llanelli Half Marathon

On 24th September this year, Aaron O’Connell will be taking part in the Llanelli Half Marathon to raise awareness and funds for Lyme Disease UK. Aaron’s younger sister has unfortunately suffered with Lyme disease for many years through her teenage years. I want to spread awareness is because I have […]

The Ripple Effect – A Wife Reflects on her Husband’s Journey with Lyme Disease

Who would have thought completing a Personal Independence Payment (PIP) application form could be so emotive? Currently reeling from the depth of feeling I am stirring up I feel compelled to scribble down my ramblings in an attempt to find some clarity. Up until now I thought I was handling […]

Deborah Bircham close up photo of her face with a tree and grass in the background

My Lyme Story: Deborah Bircham

In March 2018, I had just started the job of my dreams and was feeling on top of the world. I had been working in woodlands all over the country for around 6 months, and just landed a brilliant new role which I was ecstatic about, and then I suddenly […]

Photo of Lyme disease patient, Vicky Hamlin, sitting in a medical setting with an IV in her arm and looking unhappy

My Lyme Story: Vicky Hamlin

Prior to 2016 I was fit, healthy, very active and worked long hours in a career I loved. I did charity events including running the London Marathon and cycling from London to Paris. In 2016, I had an amazing year away travelling – I climbed Machu Picchu, swam in the […]

My Lyme Story: Sophie and Gabriella Dahlmann

In the summer of 2017 whilst pregnant with Gabriella, I was, as we later found out, bitten by a tick. At the time I experienced ongoing flu-like symptoms and didn’t notice a bull’s-eye rash. When I saw one of the GPs at my surgery, I was told what I had […]

Guest Blog – ‘What makes viruses tick?’ Project

At the MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research, we are undertaking a new project ‘What makes viruses tick?’. This project aims to raise awareness and offer information on ticks and tick-borne diseases in Scotland. Ticks and the diseases they transmit have become an increasing concern in recent years for […]

Tick warning attached to single tree in woodland

Awareness Talks

Our awareness talks are popular as ever and we’ve had some great interactions throughout 2022. In collaboration with Botanic Protect, we were invited to give a talk to the Woodland Trust in March. Over one hundred people attended this virtual event where awareness about what Lyme disease is, prevention of […]

My Lyme Story: Lori Chisnall

I was a healthy, young 47-year-old enjoying life. A party animal, I was always first on the dance floor and last to leave until one morning I awoke with every bone and muscle hurting, an intense, deep crushing pain. Months went by without improvement, in fact I got worse. My […]

My Lyme Story: Monia-Allah T Al-Haidary

I have been going to the doctors for two years now with various symptoms. Brain fog, dizziness, light-headedness, and, as charmingly scrawled on my notes time and time again, TATT (tired all the time). From October 2020, at the height of the pandemic, I had a urinary tract infection followed […]

My Lyme Story: Katharine Rhodes

The first symptom I can recall is the drop in my energy levels around 2014/15. I stopped wanting to do the things I liked so I went to my GP and had different tests, but everything returned normal. The fatigue slowly got worse. In 2017/18 further symptoms appeared. The first […]

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