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last night, i found a tiny black thing on my upper thigh. my husband pulled it off carefully with a tweezer.
it was so small, not moving; we couldnt tell for sure if it was a tick. Then it sort of popped and turned into a black smudge on a tissue with my blood all over it.
i was on abx 14 months, but have been off of them for two. i've been taking A-L and treating parasites with parastroy.
Finally, my question, should i ask my LLMD for a round of Doxy just in case, or do you think I am okay with just the A-L and parastroy?
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Pinelady
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I use HOT heat on my new bites asap...For several hours. I heat a wet towel in microwave to apply to bite site.
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- Re: Heat. It can draw out some things like pus from a wound . . . still . . .
a concern would be that heat would encourage any bacteria or viruses at the bite site to circulate into the blood stream much, much faster.
There is no temperature hot enough to kill spirochetes that will not damage human tissue. -
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Keebler
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- Debilyn,
I am not familiar with those items you are taking. IF they address cyst form, too, that would be important.
Hope you can talk Monday morning with your LLMD or his/her office manager.
For reference (although since you are taking some things this may not so much apply to you):
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thank you pine lady and keebler. i have a call into my LLMD.
will find out what he says tomorrow. Just really freaked out about another bite.
thanks for taking the time to reply.
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Pinelady
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Heat has worked quite effectively for me so it may be the combinations of infections the ticks are carrying and the gene sharing spirochetal prion proteins that contribute to Lyme and NOT just the spirochetes themselves as exhibited in figure 5 by the introduction of testosterone linked hormone pheromones. It is. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3656094/
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Tammy N.
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I'm not a big abx fan, but in the case of a new bite I would definitely take it just to be on the safe side. Whatever it was, it was sucking your blood and could have passed an infection on to you.
Sending good thoughts your way.
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I would. You already know what can happen if you were infected. I would rather be safe then sorry.
Have a magnifing glass handy so you can get a better look at whatever blood sucker got ya.
Probably the last think you want to have to do but wouldn't it give you piece of mind to treat just in case? Best wishes. DW
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