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Seeking desperately for a Lyme doctor in North eastern PA. Anyone who can take insurance if possible please! Willing to travel. I just need someone ASAP. So sick for recent tick bite (this week) thank you!
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Bartenderbonnie
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Welcome to Lymenet Bitbytick
This is urgent. Did you contact your primary ? Did you go to Urgent Care or E.R.? Did you save the tick ? Did you take a picture of tick? The more documentation the better.
Print this out and take to your primary, ER, or urgent care;
The sooner you get treatment the better the outcome. Doxycycline 200mg 2x daily is the usual prescriped dose. Main-stream Doctors are uneducated in Tick Borne Infections. They may prescripe you 1day's worth or 14 days worth of meds. You NEED 6 weeks of Doxy to eliminate infection in it's tracks. Seek treatment now through whoever takes your insurance along with printed out ILADS guidelines in the link I posted.
You can request a LLMD through ILADS (International Lyme and Associated Disease Society) here;
There is a message box where you can ask for a LLMD that accepts insurance. Most LLMD's don't participate with insurances so get your finances in order, Lyme is expensive to treat. Hopefully you can nip it in the bud and not have to worry.
I will send you a private message.
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Yes I went to ER. They gave 21 days due to the bullseye rash. I never saw the tick so I could not save it. I have a picture of the bullseye for future reference. Is it possible the bullseye can be just Lyme alone??? I am taking some old abx I have called clindamyacin hoping to treat possible Babesia while I can before I am able to locate a doctor who is knowledgeable. Anything I can do I am grasping at straws.
I submitted to ILADS a doctor request and am hoping there are others on this board who see any doctor in pa they can share that accepts insurance. I will travel anywhere! I am the sole provider for my family. Thank you so much.
Thank you for your response.
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Bartenderbonnie
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According to the top LLMD's, co-infections are the norm, not the exception. Babesia has been seen in 40% of Lyme patients and Bartonella in 23% in Lyme patients at one LLMD's practice. Not to mention all the other co-infections, parasites, and mycroplasmas. A lot of Lyme meds can address some of these, but not all.
Can it be just Lyme alone, I guess it can be possible.
You are on the right track Bitbytick . . .keep going 💚
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