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Lyme Disease and Tick-Borne Co-Infections
Migrating symptoms, good weeks and terrible weeks, and a negative test that closed the conversation.
Lyme Rarely Travels Alone
Tick-borne illness is one of the most commonly missed drivers of complex chronic symptoms. Many patients never saw a tick, never had a rash, and were tested once with a screening panel that came back negative.
Co-infections are the rule rather than the exception. A single tick can transmit more than one organism, and the co-infections often drive symptoms that Lyme treatment alone does not resolve.
Dr. Goldstein works with patients navigating persistent tick-borne illness using a root-cause framework: assess the infectious burden, assess the terrain that is allowing it to persist, and support both.
“Lyme-literate” describes a clinical approach recognized within the Lyme community. It is not a board certification and is not presented as one.
Patterns That Raise the Question
What We Assess
Tick-Borne Infection
Borrelia and the common co-infections, evaluated clinically alongside appropriate specialty testing rather than on a single screening result.
Immune Function
Whether the immune system is able to respond at all. Chronic infection both depends on and worsens immune dysregulation.
Inflammation Load
Persistent inflammatory activity is what produces much of the day-to-day symptom burden in chronic tick-borne illness.
Detoxification Capacity
How well the body clears the byproducts of treatment. This determines how well treatment is tolerated.
Co-Occurring Mold Exposure
Mold and biotoxin exposure frequently coexists with tick-borne illness and will stall progress if it is not identified.
Hormone and Mitochondrial Status
The systems that determine whether you have the reserve to get well.
Many patients never saw a tick, never had a rash, and were tested once with a screening panel that came back negative.
In Their Own Words
One patient learned on testing that he had an infection nobody had looked for. One family was treated for Lyme disease and co-infections.
“Dr. Goldstein is an amazing, caring and knowledgeable doctor. She takes the necessary steps to fix my family at the root cause. I will forever be grateful to her for helping us thrive as a family and get rid of nasty Lyme disease and co infections that took so much away from my family.”
Dillon Kuhlman
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These are real patients sharing their own experiences, published with their permission. Individual results vary depending on your condition, your history and how long it has been present. Nothing here is a promise of a particular outcome, and this page is educational rather than medical advice.
Terrain and Organism, Together
Treating the organism without supporting the terrain tends to produce short-lived improvement and poor tolerance. Care here addresses both: immune support, inflammation, drainage and detoxification pathways, and the underlying capacity of the body to recover.
Advanced therapeutic modalities are integrated when clinically appropriate, including intravenous ozone therapy and other supportive therapies, always as part of a personalized plan rather than as standalone treatment.
Pacing matters. Plans are sequenced so that treatment is tolerable and progress is sustainable.
Frequently Asked Questions
Not on its own. Standard screening has known limitations, particularly later in the course of illness. Clinical history and symptom pattern are weighted alongside testing.
Other organisms transmitted by the same tick. They commonly drive symptoms that persist after Lyme has been treated, which is why they are assessed rather than assumed absent.
Dr. Goldstein is a licensed California naturopathic doctor with prescriptive authority and prescribes when clinically appropriate. The plan is built around the individual case, not a fixed protocol.
Relapse commonly points to an unaddressed co-infection, an unaddressed environmental exposure such as mold, or a terrain that was never supported enough to hold the gains. All three are part of the evaluation here.
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