A friend of mine had a tick attached to her a few years ago. She had me pull it off and I missed the head. She went straight to the doctor's and they helped her pull it out and gave ZERO antibiotics.
Has anyone ever had a spot like this at the site of the bite -- years later??? http://free-e-mom.com/images/red-spot-2.jpg That pic is today - the bite was at least 3 years ago! The red spot is a little raised... you can't see that in the pic.
She has all over pain, depression, neuropathy, bumps on shins, heart palpatations, sensitivity to light and noise, fevers off and on, major brain fog... and much more.
She had to stop working as a nurse because of pain... she is really struggling.
Since my son got sick and I have learned so much about lyme... I have been telling her that her symptoms could be lyme, sending her info that relates to her illness and she gets it. She and I are both sure she has lyme and probably at least Bartonella.
She has been going from doctor to doctor trying to get a Western Blot... but no one will order it. They say she couldn't have lyme.
I finally found an adult LLMD close by and she has called for an appointment.
Posted by Carol in PA (Member # 5338) on :
Yes, those symptoms do look like Lyme. Actually, some of them look like low magnesium...depression, heart palpitations, sensitivity to light and noise.
Do you have access to LED light therapy? That might heal the lesion left after the tick bite.
Things to reduce inflammation may help your friend too. Fish oil with high EPA, systemic enzyme therapy.
Carol
Posted by momlyme (Member # 27775) on :
Thanks Carol - I gave her some mag oil... not sure if she is using it so I will ask.
I don't have LED light therapy, nor have I ever looked into it. Where would one get that?
I will suggest fish oil - is there one that has higher EPA than others?
I don't know anything about systemic enzyme therapy... is this a protocol or a single supplement?
Posted by map1131 (Member # 2022) on :
Yes, I had a tick bite (this was years after being ill from other tick bites) in '05 that looked like that pic.
That bite would itch and burn. I'd use ointment on it and peroxide. The bite would disappear completely. Three weeks later it was a bite again.
This went on for several months. On a cycle, no doubt about it. I believe that bite was a Big dose of bartonella. Bartonella sx became the front runner. Bone pain in large bones on arms and legs.
GI issues that I still have horrible flares with. Horrible headaches, soles of feet pain.
Pam
Posted by momlyme (Member # 27775) on :
Pam - that makes perfect sense. I was thinking Bartonella too.
That seems to be a lot of her symptoms... bottom of the feet pain and bone pain. She is having trouble convincing the doctor of the intensity of the pain she is in. I believe her... because I have seen what this has done to my son.
I think she has headaches too.
Posted by momlyme (Member # 27775) on :
Anyone else have a red spot at site of tick bite... or any red spot that looks like this? (see link)
Posted by RESOLVED. (Member # 24991) on :
That looks very much like what I have on my leg. I just answered a post about whether or not ticks always fall off. I believe mine somehow got imbedded in my leg and never fell off. I live in Florida and my skin is very tan year-round, so it doesn't look quite as red....but it really looks just like that.
When I first got this bump thing, it looked dark in the middle and I thought it was an ingrown hair or something. I tried to mess with it, and then I got really sick and forgot about it. The dark part eventually went away and I was left with a slightly raised red spot like that one. It seems to get less and less raised all the time. Who knows what these stupid ticks do after they bite us!!??? Posted by froggy (Member # 31052) on :
This is Laura, the friend Heather is speaking of. I just registered to lymenet and wanted to say that I have not been diagnosed with Lyme, but the doctors say the pain I have is "in my head" and my back pain "shouldnt hurt- it is normal degenerative disc". Everything I see on here is so familiar to what I am going through!! My feet hurt terribly and I seem to be getting worse. We all have stress, but come on! The doctors are making it worse for me. Is this going to post?
Posted by momlyme (Member # 27775) on :
Hi Laura! Welcome to Lymenet!
Glad you found your way on to the board.
You are right. What you are experiencing is not all in your head... it is not "normal"
You ARE going to get in to see a lyme literate doctor (LLMD). In the meantime... keep taking the mag. oil, the fish oil...
any other suggestions?
Posted by imitchy (Member # 30719) on :
Hi, I'm in NY too, is the doc you are going to see the same as the one listed in the PM we generally receive when we sign up here?
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