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Posted by loverell on :

I went on vacation in oct 2004 and became very sick in nov 2004, dx with lyme jan 2005....

i also went on vacation the same place 5 years ago never been sick in the past 5 yrs or really any in my life? is it possible i got it 5 years ago and it just showed up?
the reason i wonder is i have a 4 yr old daughter and it scares me to think if i had it then? she had never been sick, i find myself watchin every move she maks lately to see if anything is wrong. i feel like i am going crazy?

i did have a small bruise lookin rash to when i came back.

i feel like i want to test her just to make sure? can any one please give me some advice?

i also seem to have gotten aleast 20 symptons of lyme in less then a month is that possible for it to hit you that fast?

i see where people go for years, not knowing what they have, does everyone not get hit this hard or fast???????

Posted by duke77 (Member # 5051) on :

Lyme can lie assymptomatic or with a few minor symptoms and then something triggers it and it can hit hard.

That is what happened to me, in hind sight I had minor lyme symptoms for years before the dx. When it Lyme came, it came hard and there was no denying it the lyme was easy to diagnosis myself before going to the dr very textbook symptoms all of a sudden.

Posted by zipzip (Member # 6226) on :

it can come on very slow or very fast, depending on the strain and the strength of your immune system.

some people are bitten and are in bed in a week not being able to move. some people are bitten and never show any symptoms at all.

best of luck...

Posted by quic (Member # 5262) on :

My family was exposed Dec 2003/Jan 2004.

Wife got sick in Jan. Became paralyzed over the course of 2 minutes. I witnessed the whole thing.

Kids and I got sick in Feb. I woke up one morning at 2am with fever and ringing in my ears, tingling in my legs. Never been the same since.

We are all getting better, but its slow. I've been in treatment over a year.

I think it depends on the strain you are exposed to. Ours was very sudden, and mostly neurological problems. I've heard of people who have joint type issues. These seem to sometimes develop over a long period of time with (sometimes very long) periods of remission.

We camp every year in Southeast CT. My LLMD thinks that many times people are exposed and don't have any symptoms. Its when they are exposed multiple times or with other infections is when they get really sick. Almost like a booster shot, but in reverse.

- Mike

Posted by Linda LD (Member # 6663) on :

My doc says the same about multiple exposures.

As a child I was literally thrown out in the yard when i was a kid--it was nothing to pull a couple of ticks off a week. I remember having some LD symptoms but never told anyone. But I didn't get really sick until my pregnancies--although my thyroid wnet hyper in my teens and 20s and then hypo in my 30s--I didn't know my thyroid was screwed up--now think the LD is what "turned" that auto-immune on. Pregnancy started the ball rolling and then the thyroid, AEB, and LD really hit hard.

It's been a struggle every since.

Linda

Posted by long2bbetter (Member # 6792) on :

Lyme can hit hard and really fast.About 2-3 months after the rash,my husband's initial symptoms were mostly neurological, bad enough to disable him within a few months. Then the arthritis and joint pain started soon followed by all the other symptoms on the lyme symptom list. It was like a nightmare every day because we never knew what the next symptom would be or if the current symptoms would stop or be chronic. He is currently on abx but we know it will be a really slow road ahead.

Posted by pq (Member # 6886) on :

Bb was in my heart by day 2-3, and in my brain by day 4-5, after inadvertently snapping a single embedded tick, while 'petting' it,trying to feel in what direction its head was, since I couldn't see it. In retrospect, what I thought was a wart(I couldn't see it, but could feel it on the back of my leg), was a tick, embedded in my leg for 4-6 days, before I snapped it.
Rash on sternum by day day 2, and satellite rashes, including on my scalp by day 4 after the snap.
Also, in retrospect,before the snap, I noticed a subtle,slight, but distinct change in my 'mentation,' and thought it odd that I should be this way. Nothing explained it. Why am I this way? I had asked my self.
One thing about my 'mentation,' for lack of a better characterization, was the simultaneous attitude of a workhorse,'taking on the day,' and an odd "disinclination" to do it. Thats the paradox!

[This message has been edited by pq (edited 31 March 2005).]

Posted by hatsnscarfs (Member # 6562) on :

10 days after my bite I had ear & jaw pain and started getting brain fog. I couldn't stay awake driving and had trouble remembering where I was going.

I didn't recognize these as Lyme symptoms. I was looking for a bullseye rash, fever & joint pain but I didn't get any of those "classic" symptoms.

3 1/2 weeks after the bite I got Bell's Palsy and went rapidly downhill from there.

hatsnscarfs