IV Ozone Therapy for Chronically Ill Patients: A look inside Emily’s newest treatment
Hi Friends in the Fight, Your support during the last few years has been essential to my journey towards feeling Mighty Well for myself. In honor of how far my body has come in the past year, I wanted to share with the Mighty Well community the treatments that have helped me heal and take […]
Justin Bieber: Ramsay Hunt Syndrome
Just a couple of years ago, Justin Bieber shared that he was battling Lyme disease. It was rough, but he was able to take the time and treatments needed to heal. He used his platform to advocate about Lyme, even making a documentary about his experience battling mental illness, Epstein Barr, and chronic Lyme. Justin […]
Emily’s Care Team Tips
As we explored building up a care team last month, I wanted to take this opportunity to dive into a few of the treatment plans, therapies, and healing modalities that put my chronic illness stemming from Tick Borne Illness in full remission in 2022. I wanted to share these tips with you in case it aids you […]
Pregnant, Sick, and Quarantined
No matter who you are or where in the world you live, this year has been one of a kind. I feel incredibly fortunate that not all of the changes I’ve experienced have been negative — I spent much of this year pregnant and feeling remarkably well (for me)! If all goes well, I will […]
Mighty Close to Home: Featuring Tori and Lulu Piskin
The relationship between patients and caregivers can be wonderful, challenging, and complex. Many of us feel the need to down play our illness for fear of making others uncomfortable, or avoid the topic all together, even though it plays such a prominent role in our lives. Perhaps if we started sharing more, it would become […]
Accounting For General Biases in Medicine
I will never forget coming home from summer camp when I was twelve. I felt so tired, but chalked it up to not sleeping enough as camp drew to an end. A few days later my body, especially my joints, ached. I was used to some pain (thanks to EDS) and shrugged it off. Then […]
Lyme Disease Awareness in a COVID Pandemic
If you were to develop a sore throat and fever this week, complete with aches and chills, your first thought would likely be COVID-19. Your doctor might tell you to stay home and quarantine unless things got worse. And they’d be right to do so! Yet these symptoms, all too familiar in our world of flu outbreaks […]
Finding Solace in the Outdoors: Interview with Chloe from More than Lyme
Mental health experts are urging us to get outdoors during this pandemic. As with everything else the virus has brought, this recommendation can be complicated for the chronic illness community. I believe that it’s so important for our mental health to get out into nature! Yet going outside really can feel daunting for a number […]
Life with Lyme: Conversations with Lisa Cipkar
Last week, Mighty Well CEO Emily Levy sat down with Lisa Cipkar, founder of Abundant Life and Wellness, for another conversation in our Friends in the Fight Interview series. Tune in below to watch Emily and Lisa discuss life with Lyme disease and Lisa’s experience as both a patient and practitioner. Thank you Lisa for […]
Understanding Physicians’ Perspectives
As chronic patients, we are acutely aware of the strain that can creep into patient-physician relationships. You can try everything in an appointment — being quiet and polite, assertive and confident, well-informed and prepared… and still end up feeling that something went wrong. Every negative experience with doctors who don’t listen or believe our stories, […]
Global Lyme Alliance 5th Annual Gala
Our friends and partners at Global Lyme Alliance hosted their 5th Annual New York City Gala at Cipriani last night, attracting celebrities, patients, scientists and Friends in the Fight to raise awareness and funds to find a cure for tick-borne disease. Celebrity guests included Yolanda Hadid, Senator Richard Blumenthal, PGA champion Jimmy Walker, Dr. Oz, […]
Meet Hanna Muir – A New Mighty Well Ambassador!
Earlier this summer we launched the new Mighty Well Ambassador Program, which brings together a community of people in the chronic illness space — from patients to caregivers — who want to help spread awareness about theirs and others’ experiences. Hanna Muir is one of the amazing advocates who has recently joined the program, and we […]