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Podcast: Tick Boot Camp
Episode: ChroniLyme - an interview with Christèle Dumas-Gonnet
Description: Christèle Dumas-Gonnet is the 48-year-old co-founder of ChroniLyme, a patient advocacy association dedicated to improving diagnosis and treatment of chronic Lyme disease, based in Lyon, France. She is also a member of the European Lyme patient engagement collective PREFACE (Patient Resource Facilitator Europe).
Shortly before the end of her university studies, she began to suffer from fatigue, aches, pains, and âa white fog that prevented [her] from concentratingâ. For the next 20 years, her health slowly and steadily declined requiring her to seek treatment from âdozens of doctorsâ and hospitals.
In 2014, she was hospitalized for âleft side p...