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Posted by MarsyNY (Member # 7766) on :

To my horror I discovered a tick on my arm several hours ago. I thought I carefully removed it but it was still embedded.

Panicked I went to the Emergency Room of a local hospital ( in a highly endemic area) Took out the remainder of what he called mouthparts. I have a small raised circle.

The treatment is Doxycycline which I cannot take and they would not give me anything else.

Does anyone know what else might be effective to cover myself? I on amoxicillin and thought I would do 2000mg day for 2 weeks.

[ 10-10-2009, 12:03 PM: Message edited by: MarsyNY ]

Posted by bettyg (Member # 6147) on :

so sorry to read this.

i think you did the right thing about amoxy in my non-medical opinion.

hopefully others with medical experience will come along, and they would NOT give you anything else!! sheesh [tsk]