This film is so important, I feel it should be a part of school curriculum in areas of the country plagued with lyme disease. The AMA, which was founded by pharmaceutical companies, needs a complete overhaul in its corruption.

Excellent, very informatve!!!

Is it chronic Lyme disease(s) or a neurological disorder possibly caused by the infection? What is apparently happening according to this mostly convincing documentary is that (1) some people get a chronic form of Lyme disease and, (2) the insurance companies don't want to pay for the long-term treatment required, and (3) their method for avoiding the costs is to deny the disease exists. (4) Additionally, the sufferers are accused of faking it or having it all in their heads. Furthermore, doctors who treat (and apparently cure) patients with chronic Lyme disease are threatened with losing their medical licenses because the medical establishment believes that the long-term use of intravenous antibiotics (as seen in this film) is harmful. If all of this is true then this is a national disgrace of a criminal nature. However, according to the article in Wikipedia, "Chronic Lyme disease is a generally unrecognised diagnosis that encompasses 'a broad array of illnesses or symptom complexes for which there is no reproducible or convincing scientific evidence of any relationship to B. burgdorferi infection.'" One of the citations that Wikipedia gives is an article in The New England Journal of Medicine. The documentary shows several persons who were bitten by a tick or ticks and contracted Lyme disease but continued to have horrendous symptoms months or years after they should have been cured. Then these same persons are treated with intravenous antibiotics over months or years and then become free of symptoms. At issue here is did the antibiotics cure them? And if so, what was it that was cured? My belief is twofold (1) that the infectious agent Borrelia burgdorferi disrupted or compromised the immune system of these people so badly that it took months or years for their bodies to recover, and (2) the infectious agent was able to hide from the immune system in biofilms within the body for months or years. Consequently, in the first case, the antibiotics did not cure them. The passage of time and perhaps love and good life style choices did. In the second case gradually the antibiotics may have cured the disease. In other cases the immune system may be keeping the bacteria at bay. By the way, the disease caused by Borrelia burgdorferi is only one of many similar diseases caused by tick bites throughout the world. Consequently, when doctors are not able to find the Lyme disease agent in a chronically sick person it may be the case they are looking for the wrong bug. I invite the reader to see the recent Australian documentary "Our Battle Ongoing: Lyme Disease in Australia" (2017) for more information. There is also an "Under Out Skin 2: Emergence" documentary from 2015 that brings the viewer more up to date. Interested people should also read relevant literature on the Web and reach your own conclusions. As far as this documentary goes, it is very well done, nicely edited, clearly presented and seemingly fair, but alarming. Perhaps a subject like chronic Lyme disease IS alarming and should be treated as such. I hope that this documentary will encourage more research so that we can understand what happens to the relatively few people who get "chronic Lyme disease" and find a cure that spares them months and years of pain and suffering. --Dennis Littrell, author of "The World Is Not as We Think It Is"

Exceptionally well done documentary on Lyme Disease--the in's and out's. It is a must watch if you are suffering from or know someone who is suffering from any chronic illness (or if you use or have ever used your health care system). This documentary follows several M.D.'s, people with Lyme, and the underlying mysteries that keep it from being properly diagnosed and treated. The follow up, "Under Our Skin 2: Emergence," contains updates on the people involved and progress being made with diagnosis and treatment of Lyme in the U.S.

Seen it and it was an EYE OPENER

that is freaky that insurance company / money can shut down an entire system to prevent people from getting better.. and those doctors that make money from patents or grants are a shame for the scientific community.. another beautiful example of how the US health system is fucked up!

This is a movie everyone should see. You need to be aware of the signs of Lyme disease and made aware of how saturated the US is with infected ticks, which are in every state. Lymes disease can also be pasted from mother to child in the womb as well as from man to woman or vis versa like a sexually transmitted disease.

For myself as someone who has chronic Lyme Disease, this documentary was soul wrenching.

A rather bleak look at those who suffer from Lyme Disease, its origins and some controversial treatment that has the medical world in conflict. I found it interesting and informative. I really had no idea how much these people suffer. It will make me think twice about wearing shorts in the bush...

lyme disease is terrifying.

Having suffered with Lyme disease for the past 11 years I was so taken by this film and hope that many take it serious. Having been denied treatment until I could hardly speak. Jerking and given so many different diagnosis it was not until I was able to show my MD that I knew what I was talking about and 7 months more suffering with inability to walk, pain, slurred speech. Was the medication I need prescribed. A very truthful documentary.

Really good. Really heartbreaking. Really good reason to stay indoors...

The movie unfortunately is one-sided and ignores many facts. Some of these facts is that patients have died because they were placed on long-term antibiotics. Some doctors in fact went to jail for injecting patients with chemicals that have been banned from the US for longer than 50 years because of their toxicity. The film doesn't disclose a clear fact that all these patients with post-Lyme disease have no evidence at all of the bacteria. The very few labs that test for the bacteria use methods that are accustomed to be positive in 90% of cases. Owners of these labs are health-care workers involved in treating the patients who think have Lyme disease. A large group of these patients (120 of them) with this syndrome who wanted to be treated for Lyme disease had their sputum, urine, blood and cerebrospinal fluid examined for the Lyme disease bacteria and it didn't show in ANY of them. I don't think these patients are faking their symptoms, but it's not caused by Lyme disease.

I hate that my friend is going through this...very insightful!

It's the nurse in me that draws me to watch things like this. I never knew there was such controversy surrounding Lyme disease. Somewhat thought provoking - could Lyme disease be the cause of Alzheimers and other diseases? Is it psychosomatic? Was it responsible for the death of Jimmy Hoffa? (Ok, last question I made up.) One problem about watching it - gave me the heebie jeebies for days after.

Horrible stuff...makes me not want to go outside. But it's good to be informed.

WHOA! Had NO idea just how brutal Lyme Disease is! SCARY STUFF! Scarier still is how politicized treatment has become, as insurance companies try to evade treating their customers. A real must-watch. My heart goes out to anyone with this disease. NOTE TO SELF: Check legs more often while hiking!!!!

A must watch for everyone.

Every one should see this film for your loved ones and yourself! And I mean this with every fiber of my being. Please see this. No, it may not be fun due to the dire subject matter and slow pacing, so take breaks as needed. Also, it is significantly but not exclusively one-sided. Regardless, it is worth watching because it is emotionally charged, very relevant, and does do a good job of provoking thought and self-research into several potentially revolutionary medical issues. <Spoiler alert> These include five broad topics: * Acute, long-term, congenital, and post Lyme disease causes, prevalence, diagnosis, treatments, and outcomes; * "Unchecked conflicts in medical care" via patentable living organisms (37 minute mark); * Bacterial similarities with syphilis (43 minute mark); and potential underlying causers (in part or whole) for a host of 21st century neurologic degenerative diseases: Alzheimer's, Lou Gehrig's/ALS, Parkinson's, Multiple Sclerosis (44 minute mark) * One state attorney general's investigation (69 min mark) * Hint at sexual transmission (77 min mark) Again, take any breaks as needed in order to see the entire thing; absolutely intriguing statements sprinkled throughout until the very end. More info: Academic news aggregator http://www.sciencedaily.com/search/?keyword=lyme Plaques of Alzheimer's disease originate from cysts of Borrelia burgdorferi, the Lyme disease spirochete (2007) By: Alan B. MacDonald http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16675154 http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=2&ved=0CCMQFjAB&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.e-clipx.ch%2Flyme%2Fdocuments%2FAlzheimer_Plaques_Borrelia_Cysts_Med_Hypothesis_May_3.pdf&rct=j&q=plaques%20of%20alzheimer%27s%20disease%20originate%20from%20cysts%20of%20Borrelia%20burgdorferi%2C%20the%20Lyme%20disease%20spirochete&ei=4E3sTfbzDKr50gHZooC7AQ&usg=AFQjCNFBbwCDJ6Nd3wxa3nUeeRbx0luhiQ&sig2=XVryL3m7Ga3cJM2yKAGc9w&cad=rja

Well worth watching. I hadn't realized how much worse this disease has become.