Must have come in on shoes...I'm taking 200mg of minocycline a day. Is that going to be enough of a "just in case" dose, or do I need to call the doc and ask for more/something else (Doxy)?
Posted by hiker53 (Member # 6046) on :
I'd probably up the dose or ask for doxy 200 mg twice a day (400 mg total)
Posted by Marnie (Member # 773) on :
Minocycline is GREAT - far better than doxy, IMO.
If you know the exact bite location (tiny red mark?)...open a capsule of activated charcoal (carefully) and sprinkle it on a wet gauze 2x2. Cover the wet gauze with plastic wrap and use paper tape to hold it in place.
The wet gauze will help the skin absorb the activated charcoal to neutralize toxins. Okay...actually reducing the inflammatory cytokines is critical. Bb counts on our response to help it invade.
Leave it in place for 24 hours. The skin in the area will be black and it will wear off in time, but if you want, you can use OxyClean solution to bleach it out and return your skin to its normal color.
I did the above very quickly for a serious insect bite/sting. I didn't see the insect, but really felt it and I am very allergic.
I suggest using some tick repellents - I spray my clothing and gear with Orange Guard - essential oil from oranges, can find it in health food stores and online in concentrate form, TKO Orange. Put a tiny bit in a spray bottle and fill with water. Also can put essential oils on your skin.
Do anything to make yourself unappetizing to ticks and bugs!
PS Will have to do a little research on recipes for making tick soup...
Posted by dal123 (Member # 6313) on :
300 mg minocycline for three months will be a big help!
Posted by Brussels (Member # 13480) on :
So we're not the only ones to get ticks from inside our house!
I think what happens is that they go on the clothes, and if you change clothes before they bite you, they drop looking for another victim...
We often find ticks in the bathroom, where we change clothes.
We found them once in our couch. My theory is that it climbed on my husband clothes, but as he repels ticks, they drop somewhere in the house too. For some reason, he was never bitten (except this year, he got his first bite too).
Have you ever tried to brush a tick off a cloth? Even skin? It is almost impossible. They keep very much in place.
The creature attaches to the tissue or skin that no matter how strong you try to rub it off, it will stay!!
I can only make them change their minds and drop when I kill them....
They do not simply fall from shoes, skin or clothes. They decide to drop somewhere for a reason...
Anyway, don't desperate. I've been bitten 6 times only THIS YEAR. All fully attached.
What I do: I use any killer oil (like peppermint, oregano, whatever you have that is strong) on the bite, many times a day.
When I was neurotic, I still attached a slice of garlic on the bite to go to bed. I learned that with a dr. K's practioner.
So the garlic acted during the night. Garlic does kill a lot, so at least, the local bite is disinfected this way.
I do think the local bite keeps pathogens concentrated. Killing there is a first thing. Bullseye rashes start from the bite, usually.
Now I don't do that anymore as I know my ticks are free of borrelia (don't laugh: the treatment was given by my lyme doc, it's homeopathic made from borrelia burg!), so I only have to fight coinfections, if they are in the tick.
Fortunately, coinfections alone are much weaker than coinfections WITH borrelia. Usually, my body gets rid of them easily (as I no longer have lyme). Usually, but not always.
I would take doxy (or mino, as others sugges), if I had no other medicine, just in case.
Today, I don't take abx anymore, but as I said, I no longer have lyme. DUring lyme, I avoided abx too, but I had many other ways of testing and killing infections.
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