Tick Boot Camp

Tick Boot Camp’s guest today is Lindsey Lozoskie . She is a 21-year-old college student from Virginia. Ms. Lozoskie first started to experience the symptoms of a tick disease during the summer of 2015, right before her senior year of high school. Suddenly, she didn’t feel like she was in her own body and developed thyroid problems and POTS. As a result of her health issues, Ms. Lozoskie began to f...

Tick Boot Camp’s guest today is Karen Maloney . She was 18 when she started to experience the symptoms of a tick disease. After a seemingly quick diagnosis and treatment with 30 days of Doxycycline, Ms. Maloney thought she would never have to think about Lyme again. Unfortunately, she was exposed to mold and her symptoms returned. By 2018, she was at her worst. Currently, Ms. Maloney is combatting...

Tick Boot Camp’s guest today is April Nill-Boitano. She is the president of Tick Wise Education , a nonprofit that educates children and adults on tick bite prevention. Ms. Nill-Boitano has been bitten by ticks three times, and experienced sinus symptoms, rashes, and hives that only worsened as she got older. She received many misdiagnoses and wasn’t taken seriously by the medical community. After...

Tick Boot Camp’s guest today is Emma Mellblom . She is a 31-year-old woman from Sweden. Ms. Mellblom was training to become a police officer when she was adversely affected by the symptoms of a tick disease in 2012. She experienced nausea, flu-like symptoms, and joint aches. She was finally diagnosed with Lyme five years later. If you would like to learn more about how Emma Mellblom is using her t...

Tick Boot Camp’s guest today is Signe Jensen . She is a 29-year-old fitness and health influencer from Denmark. In 2011, Ms. Jensen fell off of her bike and was severely concussed. Then, in 2013, she was bitten by a tick and developed a bullseye rash. She was given 10 days of antibiotics. Soon, she had flu-like symptoms, hair loss, and menstrual irregularities. Ms. Jensen finally received a positi...

Tick Boot Camp’s guest today is Anna Strezelczyk . Anna Strezelczyk is a 29-year-old IT professional from Poland. At the age of 7, she was bitten by a tick. Afterward, she started to experience health problems, and was always sick growing up. As she got older, she started to have trouble walking, breathing, and speaking. She also had numerous hospital stays before being diagnosed with Lyme at the...

Tick Boot Camp’s guest today is Ashley Belanger . Ashley Belanger is a young woman from Minnesota. In her early 20s, she began to experience the symptoms of a tick disease. She had migraines that would last for months, hair loss, extreme fatigue, and night sweats. At its worst, she would walk into a room and forget why she was there. After 10 years and no diagnosis, Ashley Belanger decided to give...

Tick Boot Camp’s guest today is Ivan Ramirez . Ivan Ramirez is a 26- year-old professional dirt bike racer from Mexico. In 2015, he was on top of the racing world, he had won the Hare & Hound National Championship, and had many sponsors including Oakley, Red Bull and KTM. Then, he had a crash while practicing, and felt weak and dizzy when he attempted to return to training. He visited countles...

Tick Boot Camp’s guest today is Nolan Fernandez . Nolan Fernandez is a microbiologist from Pittsfield, Massachusetts. He dedicated his educational career to researching ticks and has been bitten by ticks over 1000 times. As a result, he has many tips on avoiding ticks and protecting yourself from tick diseases. He also discusses genetically modified mice, Deet, permethrin and utilizing ticks as bi...

Tick Boot Camp’s guest today is Emma Franklin . Emma Franklin is a young woman from England who first started experiencing the symptoms of a tick disease when she was just 11 years old. As her symptoms progressed, she lost close friends, family members, and romantic partners. By the age of 20, she was completely bedridden and in a semi-conscious state where she couldn’t move her arms or legs. She...

Tick Boot Camp’s guest today is Shona Curley . Shona Curley is a 45-year-old woman from San Francisco. In 2014, she was bitten by a tick, but told by her doctors not to worry unless she developed a fever or rash. One year later, she began to experience constant flu-like symptoms, spent weeks in bed, and was forced to miss out on her young children’s lives. She eventually made an appointment with a...

Tick Boot Camp’s guest today is Rayanne Dooley . Rayanne Dooley is a 21-year-old woman from Ireland. In September 2018, she started experiencing flu-like symptoms which her doctors dismissed as anxiety. Her family also dismissed the severity of her illness and she struggled to stay in school. A woman from a Facebook group mentioned to Rayanne Dooley that she should get tested for Lyme Disease, and...

Tick Boot Camp’s guest today is Brandi Dean . Brandi Dean is the founder and president of Ride Out Lyme , and founder and advisory board member of the Dean Center for Tick Borne Illness . After finishing a four-year tour in the Coast Guard, she began to feel the symptoms of a tick disease. At its worst, Brandi Dean would have to take her son to school in a taxi, because she was incapable of drivin...

Tick Boot Camp’s guest today is Sara Brunner . Sara Brunner is a clinical dietician from Ontario, Canada. In 2014, she was bitten by a tick and started experiencing flu-like symptoms. She was still suffering two years later and had an unsuccessful trip to the Mayo Clinic. The night of the trip, her husband conducted his own research pertaining to his wife’s illness, and Lyme Disease repeatedly cam...

Tick Boot Camp’s guest today is Dr. Nicola Ducharme . Dr. Ducharme is a Naturopathic Doctor trained in Australia and the US. She is also the author of several books on Lyme Disease and has developed online Lyme Disease training programs . Early in her career, Dr. Ducharme recognized that many of her patients with Autism had sick mothers. She theorized that the mothers may have Lyme Disease and cou...

Tick Boot Camp’s guests today is Stefanie Smit . Stefanie Smit is a 38-year-old woman from Atlanta, Georgia. In 2016, her Lyme Disease symptoms began to interfere with her everyday life and her ability to be present as a mother and a wife. Her diagnostic and healing journey began after she was failed by 17 medical doctors. As a result of the transformation caused by her Lyme Disease experience, sh...

Tick Boot Camp’s guest today is Dr. Lindsay Vose . Lindsay Vose is a 24-year-old woman from Enfield, Connecticut. In 2013, during her freshman year at college, her Lyme disease symptoms became so severe she could no longer exercise, and her brain fog made it difficult to study for exams. Her diagnosis and healing journey began after she began to treat with a naturopath. In May, Lindsay earned her...

Tick Boot Camp’s guests today is Brooke Stoddard . Brooke is a 39-year-old resident of New York City, New York. In 2010, Brooke's Lyme Disease symptoms became career threatening: brain fog made it difficult to find words to complete sentences and occasionally he would have a conversation with a co-worker and realize that he couldn't remember their name. Over the past 6 years, Brooke has treated wi...

Tick Boot Camp’s guests today are Richard I Horowitz, MD and Savi Glowe . Dr. Horowitz is a Board Certified Internist in private practice in Hyde Park, New York. He is the medical director of the Hudson Valley Healing Arts Center and the author of two best selling Lyme Disease books: “ Why Can’t I Get Better? ” and “ How Can I Get Better? ” Savi Glowe is the Director of Operations at the Icahn Sch...

Tick Boot Camp’s guests today is the dynamic Cassidy Colbert . Despite suffering from Chronic Lyme Disease for over one-third of her young life, Ms. Colbert is very accomplished. She is a student, officer in a leading Lyme Disease education foundation , a Lyme educator, lecturer, blogger and teen Lyme Disease support group administrator. In the summers of 2018 and 2019, Ms. Colbert traveled the Un...

Tick Boot Camp’s guests today are Lillian and Meredith Park, a mother-daughter duo from the northern suburbs of Chicago. Meredith Park has been sick since her late teens, when she started to feel extreme fatigue, severe headaches, and anxiety. Meredith received various misdiagnoses ranging from bipolar disorder to MS. It wasn’t until her daughter, Lillian, was born that Ms. Park figured out the tr...

Tick Boot Camp’s guests today is Michaela Sheranko . Michaela Sheranko is a 25-year-old woman from Massachusetts. She is a creative spirit with an interest in various art forms including music and film. She is also a social media manager and the founder of the Lyme not-for-profit “I love the way you Lyme.” If you would like to learn more about how Michaela Sheranko pursued her Lyme Disease treatme...

Tick Boot Camp’s guest today is Getine Taylor from Bloomfield, New Jersey. Ms. Taylor lived a normal life until five years ago, when she started to feel sick after running a Super Spartan race. She had extreme fatigue, severe headaches, anxiety attacks, and pain all over her body. Her symptoms progressed even further, and her family started to suffer. She even began passing out in front of her dau...

Tick Boot Camp’s guest today is Taylor deRegt . Taylor deRegt is a 28-year-old woman from Carmel Valley, California. After overcoming chronic Lyme Disease that plagued her childhood, she developed dual careers as an event planner and a professional rodeo athlete. Unfortunately, illness caused by a second tick bite forced her to shelve her dual career paths. If you would like to know more about how...

Tick Boot Camp’s guests today is Jeanette Blackwood . Jeanette Blackwood is a 57-year-old native of Colorado now residing in Southern California. After discovering, removing and disposing of a large tick, she began to suffer flu and increasingly debilitating symptoms including vertigo, memory loss, balance issues and paranoia. After divorcing her husband, leaving her church, losing her ability to...