Hi Sarah
just to answer your question as to why Lyme and Shingles share this forum..... we are still a relatively new community and still growing in membership, we have some forums that are grouped together. As both Lyme disease and shingles are caused via infection by a microbe, albeit one bacterial and the other viral, yet both are microbial and so here for now. When any forum here at NeuroTalk is active, consideration is given to either splitting it into its own forum, or maybe a subforum of another, and you can always PM myself or any of the rest of the admin/mod team here with suggestions or post on the "Forum requests" thread on our Community and Forum Feedback board
http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/thread27824.html
welcome to NeuroTalk and all the best for 2008
Cheri