Welcome — Start Here Before Going Anywhere Else

What to Expect on This Page: A simple overview of the core concepts every Lyme patient should understand, with links to deeper guides as they publish. Feel free to return here any time you need clarity or direction.

If you are newly diagnosed, frustrated by dismissal, relapsing after progress, or still searching for answers despite years of symptoms, this is the place where clarity begins. Healing from Lyme disease is not linear, and recovery rarely happens without first understanding what you are actually up against. That understanding starts here.

Lyme disease is not simply an infection. It is a complex, multi-system illness that behaves very differently from how it is commonly presented in conventional medicine. Most patients receive partial explanations at best or are told outright misinformation that leaves them confused, invalidated, or questioning their own reality. The truth is that Lyme does not follow the tidy rules that medical models expect, and because of this, patients are often left to figure out the bigger picture on their own.

This is why so many people go years without answers. They are rarely told why testing fails, why symptoms appear unrelated or migrate throughout the body, or why two people with Lyme can look entirely different from one another. They are not informed about why relapses occur long after treatment, why the immune system breaks down, or why mold exposure, trauma, stress, and co-infections can drastically change the course of illness.

The result is that patients often blame themselves, assume they are doing something wrong, or believe they are “difficult cases,” when in reality they were never given an accurate framework to make sense of their experience.

The Foundations Library exists to change that. These core teachings give you the language and structure to understand your illness, advocate for yourself with confidence, interpret what your body is doing, and navigate your healing without feeling lost or ashamed. Each article within this library expands on a key concept that most Lyme patients are never taught—yet desperately need to make sense of their symptoms, treatment responses, emotional landscape, and long-term recovery trajectory.

Everything else on Lyme Advise builds from what you learn here. Once you understand these foundational truths, symptom explanations become clearer, treatment responses make more sense, the emotional toll feels less personal, and the path forward becomes more navigable. You are not broken, dramatic, or imagining things—your body is communicating based on disruption, infection dynamics, immune collapse patterns, and environmental interaction.

These pages are not theory. They are lived, clinical, and community-validated realities shaped by thousands of patients, years of clinical observation, and the experiences of practitioners who actually treat complex Lyme disease and co-infections.

Start here, move through these pieces at your own pace, and return to them whenever you need grounding. As you read, you may find yourself thinking, “Why did no doctor ever explain this to me?” You are not alone in that reaction—almost every patient we support has said the same thing.

This time, you are not being left to figure it out on your own. You have a map.