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nancyM
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I am a horticulturist by profession and actively work in gardens almost daily where about once a month my husband removes a deer tick that has attached to my body.

I have never seen an obvious rash. I am also 42 years old and have been in this profession for many years laboring hard and fast with any task necessary to be performed.

I am also(or had been)a rather athletic and passionate excerciser.


For approximately three years now I have been going to my general practitioner complaining of joint pains here, joint pains there.

None of the pains seem to correlate to any particular work or excercise recently performed. I am familiar with tired muscles from excercise and I am familiar with strains that I do get occasionally from certain work performed.

The random aches and sharp pains appear for a while in one location on and off. The pains tend to change location without rhyme or reason.

For the past year and a half I have been experiencing excruciating headaches, of which over the counter aspirins and medications do not cure.

The headaches can last two and occasionally even three days. I have been prescribed Maxalt to releive the headaches.

I have been getting hives one or two per day and then they dissappear, only to reappear again a week or three later. I have attempted to correlate the hives to food, or clothing or environment with no clear connection determined.

Just last week I started feeling tingling sensations in my arms at random times and even thought I was feeling it my face. Bizarre.


About four weeks ago, I again had a tick attached, my husband removed it (they are always stuck on, not just sitting there, as I do find them crawling on me occasionally while in the field too)

I didn't think too much about it, but on Saturday and Sunday I had become so ill with what seemed to be a cold, sniffles, body aches in the neck

I thought I would be feeling the cold for a week but Monday(Labor Day) I woke up feeling perfectly fine.

I went to the Dr and she has now put me on Doxycycline. Four days after I was really feeling the neck pains.

I am baffled as I have had numerous blood tests over the past few years. I do accept that I have worked hard, tough labor for 20 years creating gardens and moving things too heavy (probably) for a woman of my stature.

I operate a Fine Gardening Business with my husband which is a VERY big strain on mentally and physically.

Is my body reacting to stress, years of hard work, years of hard core excercize or Lyme Disease?

I am puzzled as I do not eat red meat(is this the problem?), I avoid junk food mostly, eat as much organic as is available, eat lots of raw and homegrown produce...

I am frustrated and sad as this is becoming a real challenge for my desire to be active in my daily life.

I hope this info is helpful and not too much. I look forward to hearing from you soon!

nancy M Posts: 2 | From: annapolis, maryland | Registered: Sep 2008 | IP: Logged

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