Hello, hopefully someone can answer my question, could it be possible to get lyme arthritis in the caribbean through mosquitos maybe and would it be possible to show its full symptoms within one week only?? (OR after a full year, because I went twice). Does anyone have knowledge how many lyme patients there are in the (east)caribbean?? thank you for every answer
Posted by Jillybean (Member # 8071) on :
This is a very interesting question, and I will be anxious to hear someone reply.
I was just diagnosed last August. They are assuming that a conracted Lyme 33+ years ago when I lived in PA (I now live in FL).
But with each duck I went to, they kept asking me, "Have you been traveling"? And the only place I had traveled in the last 8 years is to the eastern carribean (specifically the island of St. Johns, hiking through he woods),St, Maarten, St. Thomas, Mexico & the Bahamas.
Good luck, Jill
Posted by treepatrol (Member # 4117) on :
Ocular disease in Caribbean patients with serologic evidence of Lyme borreliosis.
Winward KE, Smith JL.
Department of Ophthalmology, Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, University of Miami School of Medicine, Florida 33101.
Four patients from Caribbean and Central American countries with ocular disease and serologic evidence of Lyme borreliosis are discussed. To our knowledge this is the first report of Lyme disease from this geographic area. Two patients exhibited ocular inflammatory disease, and two patients developed optic neuropathy. A brief discussion of Lyme borreliosis, its serologic diagnosis, and its treatment is presented.
Lyme disease in Central America (Extrapolated Incidence ) Belize 100 Guatemala 5,250 Nicaragua 1,970
Lyme disease in Caribbean (Extrapolated Incidence ) Puerto Rico 1,433
Lyme disease in South America (Extrapolated Incidence ) Brazil 67,684 Chile 5,817 Colombia 15,555 Paraguay 2,276 Peru 10,126 Venezuela 9,197
Well you get the idea.
Posted by duke77 (Member # 5051) on :
I went to St. Thomas, St. Johns and St. Maarten a few weeks before my symptoms got out of hand and I realized it was Lyme. I also got bit by a brown recluse a month before the trip. I went camping a week before the trip to St. Thomas so there are too many varibles to deal with.
Posted by treepatrol (Member # 4117) on :
quote:Originally posted by duke77: I went to St. Thomas, St. Johns and St. Maarten a few weeks before my symptoms got out of hand and I realized it was Lyme. I also got bit by a brown recluse a month before the trip. I went camping a week before the trip to St. Thomas so there are too many varibles to deal with.
Did you see the recluce after it bit you?
Posted by Banks (Member # 8894) on :
thanks all! i thought its not known there, well a mistake! like duke said, it got really 'out of hand' after one week in Barbados only, on the other hand I was fine the whole year until the holidays. i did see ticks half a year before in the forest in germany but I did not notice any on me, it must be one of these two opportunities where I got the disease... Posted by char (Member # 8315) on :
NOOOO! Please no!
Posted by duke77 (Member # 5051) on :
quote: Did you see the recluce after it bit you?
Yes, after he bit me he crawled out of my golf shoe. I got lucky he bit the top of my foot with very little flesh. I did get a red jagged shallow crater the size of a quarter that took 3 months to heal completely.
Posted by jo3 (Member # 6317) on :
My tick was speaking Spanish! I was bit in Acapulco,Mx about 8 years ago and have been on treatment now for a year and a half.
Who'd a know that walking from a house to the pool through a wooded area would cause so many years of illness.
I started feeling very nauseous and thought I had amoebas- very common in Mexico.
A friend told me to take some meds and the "rash' came out a little while later- I thought I was just allergic to the anti-parsitic!
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