It’s hard to believe that just a decade ago, the online Lyme world looked very different from today. Facebook and Twitter were in their infancy. (At that time, there wasn’t even a “like” button on Facebook!)

Instagram and Pinterest hadn’t been invented. There was no community of Lyme patients on any social media platform. There were online Lyme support groups, but they were designed for privacy, not for sharing content widely.

The general news media rarely mentioned Lyme disease. And when they did, they typically echoed the IDSA/CDC viewpoint, with no room for alternate voices.

Sure, websites–including ours–gave general information about Lyme disease and related topics.

But no single online destination existed where a person could find breaking news about Lyme disease. Nowhere to learn about pending legislation, political developments, new research and treatments, book reviews, patient experiences and the like.

Such a news hub was sorely needed.

The Lyme version of the Huffington Post
There was at this time a fairly new idea floating around the internet—something called a “blog.”

And a new-ish website called the Huffington Post made a name for itself by pulling together blogs from many different sources on a variety of topics. Which got us thinking….

What if we created our own online destination for Lyme-related news and offered our own blogs? Privately, we described this as “the Lyme version of the Huffington Post.” It seemed like an idea whose time had come.

Thus, in January 2009, we launched LymeDisease.org’s blogs. And I’m proud to say, they are still going strong.

Over the last decade, we’ve posted more than 2100 separate items. All with the goal of informing and empowering Lyme patients and their advocates.

News
Some content we draw from other sources. So, if a newspaper, TV or radio station offers noteworthy coverage of Lyme disease, we’ll point you to it. For example:

From Fox5NY:

You can watch award-winning “Lyme and Reason” TV show here.

More at this link: https://www.lymedisease.org/10-years-lyme-blogs/
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Many Blessings,
CrystalRiver