There are couples who have the disease, but it is hard to distinguish whether they both received a tick bite or it was passed.

However, we do know that the lyme bacteria has been found in vaginal fluid, semen, urine, blood and breast milk.

I guess the best thing to do is, be aware there is that possibility. If the uninfected partner wants to use protection, go for it! If not, I would guess there may be some risk to that....my hubby has made his choice (which I won't disclose here )...based on the assumption that there are differing views on that issue!

I can look back now and notice symptoms years before I met my husband.

I lived in a house surrounded by ticks and indoor/outdoor animals/pet vermin. I played/studied in the woods behind our house for years. We had alot of deer in our yards/neighbors yards for years before our city started to build up and the deer stopped showing up.

I saw ticks on me, my clothing, in my bed, in the house, on the pets, etc. Our pets always had ticks and fleas on them. They slept in our house/certain pets in my own bed - but they spent most of their time outside.

Now (at this time) it doesn't suprise me I have Lyme - but back then noone ever worried about it - it was never a concern.

My husband was never in that type of environment and he is not an outdoorsy kind of person. Is it possible he did get bitten by a tick and doesn't know it? Maybe. But I think it's more probable he got it from me, especially when you look at the timeline of his symptoms.

I can go back to highschool when certain symptoms started to wax and wane. I ignored them as best I could as many teens/young adults probably do. I was scared and tried not to think about the symptoms I was having.

I started noticing a rash on the back of my head in 2000 that came and went (still to this day). I went to the doctor over and over again and they never found out what it was. I have now had it for a year - my LLMD thinks it's due to Lyme.

Just in the past 2 yrs did my Lyme get bad enough (more symptoms I've never had before and the symptoms that had waxed and waned for years became extremely aggressive) for me to know something was wrong and I started looking for an answer.

Only a year ago, my husband starting showing similar symptoms as me (but not as bad). He never had any kind of symptom before this time, whereas, I ignored symptoms for years.

He has tested positive, I still have never tested positive.

My LLMD believes it is sexually transmitted.

If you can possibly pass it on to a fetus and it has been found in breast milk, why wouldn't it be sexually transmitted?

I just wonder if the co-infections can be sexually transmitted. If Lyme possible is, why wouldn't co-infections also?

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Three months after we became intimate he was diagnosed with lyme...no coinfections though..

Dr. S in CA believes that I probably gave it to him...He says to use condoms as this disease is so rotten that surely we wouldn't want to take the risk of giving it to anyone that we love.

My daughter is 18 and was diagnosed in November with lyme, babesia and ehrlichia....Dr. S. had a private chat with her about her new diagnosis being even more of a reason to use condoms....plus, she wouldn't want to add any STD on top of the tick borne bugs...( I was glad not to have been in the room for this little chat!)

Lots of reasons to be very careful...No definitive yes or no answers, but the scale tips heavily toward using condoms to protect our partners.