LymeHQ · For caregivers

Designed for you. Not built for you yet.

You are usually the one holding the timeline, the appointments and the argument with the insurer — and there is no account on this platform that reflects that. This page says so plainly, and says what is genuinely yours today.

The honest position

There is no caregiver account, and none is scheduled. Delegated access is a parked design decision rather than a queued feature, and we would rather say that than put a date on it and miss. What follows is what has been decided about how it will work when it is built, and what exists today that is already yours.

01 · Today

The library is yours, and it always will be

Free, public, no account, and written to be handed to somebody.

A large part of what a caregiver needs is not access to a record — it is understanding the illness well enough to advocate in a twelve-minute appointment. All of that is public here, costs nothing, and asks for no email address. Several of these pages exist specifically because someone needed to send them to a family member who did not believe them.

Walk in with the record.

The visit is short. What you bring decides how far it gets.

What to take to a medical appointmentThese items are worth gathering before an appointment, each with an empty box to tick. Your symptom timeline — when it started and what changed. The tick itself, if you kept it, which carries the species and how long it was attached. Every test result, including the negative ones. What you have already tried, and what happened. Three questions written down, in order of what matters most. And someone with you, because fog and bad news both eat memory.SIX THINGS TO TAKEYour symptom timelineWhen it started, what changedThe tick, if you kept itSpecies and time attachedEvery test resultIncluding the negative onesWhat you have triedTreatments, and what happenedThree questions, writtenIn order of what matters mostSomeone with youFog and bad news both eat memory
  • An empty box — nothing here is ticked for you

You are the only person who has seen the whole thing. Bring it with you.

Nothing on this list is required. Bring what you have — a visit that covers less is not a visit you failed.

Preparation guidance only. Nothing on this drawing is a measured quantity, no item is a requirement of any appointment, and no clinical claim is made about any of them.

02 · The workaround, named as one

You can help someone use their own account

That is not delegated access, and calling it a feature would be dishonest.

Nothing stops you sitting with someone while they log a day, upload a lab result or add a clinician — and for a lot of households that is exactly what happens. But it means acting as them rather than for them. Everything recorded is recorded as theirs, the access log shows their account and not yours, and if the arrangement ever goes wrong there is no record of who actually did what.

That last part is the whole reason caregiver access has not been improvised. Adding a second person to an account is easy; making the record show someone acting on another person’s behalf, and keeping that distinction intact in a log that cannot be rewritten afterwards, is a design problem. Getting it wrong would quietly break the one guarantee the rest of the platform is built on.

03 · When it is built

What has already been decided

Recorded so it is not re-derived badly later.

  • Their own account with their own consent — not a shared login, and not a second password on somebody else’s record.
  • Acting on behalf of, never as. The distinction has to survive into the access log, which is append-only, so it has to be right the first time.
  • Granted by the patient and revocable by the patient, on the same footing as sharing with a clinician. Nobody else can create it.
  • Scoped rather than total. Helping with appointments and paperwork is a different thing from reading a private journal.

One thing that already includes you

Households are a real object here rather than a label. If a dog in the household tests positive on a routine tick-exposure test, everyone in that household is told — and no sharing switch gates it, because a household’s own warning is not something to charge for. It says where ticks are, never what anyone has.

What a positive dog test can and cannot say

A routine C6 antibody test at the annual vet visit.

What a positive canine C6 result tells a householdA dog living in this household had a routine C6 antibody test at its annual vet visit and the result was positive. Read in order: the dog met a tick carrying Lyme; so ticks carrying Lyme are present where this household lives; so it is worth mentioning to your own clinician at your next visit. What the result is evidence about is the ground around that home, and the evidence thins with distance from it. It says nothing about whether any person in the household is infected — dogs are simply tested every year, stay close to home, and cannot hide symptoms.CANINE C6 ANTIBODYYour dogknew first.Positive resultThe dog met a tickcarrying LymeSo ticks are herePresent where thishousehold livesWorth mentioningTo your own clinician,at your next visit
  • The household — the dog and the people in it
  • What the result is about: the ground around it

A dog and the people it lives with walk the same ground. A positive result is a fact about that ground, arrived at without anyone having had to notice anything.

Nothing here is a result for a person. What it gives you is one sentence worth saying out loud at your next appointment.

It says nothing about whether any person is infected. Dogs are tested yearly, stay close to home, and cannot hide symptoms.

Orientation only. Nothing on this drawing is a measurement — there is no rate here, no timeframe and no dose. It says what the alert itself says: where ticks are, never what anyone has. We test the real alert against that same limit on every build.

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