General Discussion
Lyme Disease
I got limes in the '80s they kept sending my lap results up to University of Madison but this was a long time ago results kept coming unconclusive
I was starting to high fevers I finally said is the treatment going to kill me they finally decided to throw the whole kitchen sink at me I the Rocky mountain spotted ticker treatment the the current treatment for lymes and antibiotics
I've been fine ever since
Yes Brent, I’m glad I was able to connect the dots and the rash showed up. Without that I’d probably not connect it to Lymes. It was timed so perfectly with that tetanus shot I’d have thought for sure that was it. Will see what the doc says but it seems like a certainty to me with basically every one of the classic symptoms. Even took a couple of Covid tests wondering if I ran in to that again.
W&W.
I don’t remember getting bit either, or having a bull’s-eye rash, I just continued to get worse and worse every year starting around 2009, until I was finally diagnosed in 2013.
Also, as time goes on, the center of the bull’s-eye goes away, and it can fill-in to just a shaded area, or just a circle with no bullseye in the middle.
About 40% of the folks with Lyme never pulled a tick off them, or noticed a rash.
Here are some pics of different variations of the Bullseye rash.
Also, the Elisha Lyme test (most common test for Lyme) misses about 37% of cases.
It can be a really scary deal for sure…
I think I’ve got it now, will call doc tomorrow. Went in for normal checkup last week and was due for a tetanus shot so I said yeah give it to me. The next day I have sore muscles, sore joints, headache, and chills. After looking up tetanus shot side effects, I assumed it was a reaction to the tetanus shot. Ibuprofen seems to fix the symptoms and I keep thinking eventually I’m going to get over the reaction to the shot. However fast forward 4 days and nothings changed. In the shower I notice a 4 inch not quite bullseye around what I thought was just a bug bite on my thigh a couple of weeks back. I thought that bite was odd because I didn’t remember getting bit, just noticed a welt one day. Now it all makes sense.
Some of the most awful things that ticks carry there are no tests for, diagnosis is clinical.
The average deer ticks carries 24 piroplasms other than Lyme to include some of the ones listed in the attached chart!
You can test negative for Lyme, but have something equally as nasty, with no test given to prove it…
Luckily Doxy kills most all of them!
Gets worse every year RC!
We have lone star ticks in WI now too, and they are the deer ticks nasty cousin.
Had my first deer tic of the year on me three weeks ago, there are loads in the southern part of the state.
Went 9 or 10 months undegnosed myself about 10 years ago. No fun, it kicked my hinie.
The one thing I do now is I really watch for the symptoms. I had them all the last time I just didn't realize it. Sore neck, pounding headache and so on. Oh and incredibly tired all the time. I have reumitoid arthritis and they confused it with that. There are differences.