5dana8
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My father pulled an embedded tick from his chest 3-4 weeks ago. My brother told me there was a rash but my father says it was just from the tweezer trying to dig the head out. This is not the first tick he has pulled off himself recently. More like the 4th or 5th one.
I got an e-mail from him today & he writes what his doc told him..." since the tick attachment was 3-4 weeks ago, the doxy med would do no good. I am scheduled for a test since you need to wait 4 to 6 weeks for it to be valid"
I sent him alot of information over the years but am not sure he has read them. I have sent him the article 18 reasons why you can have lyme & still test negative.
I have said to him recently why take any chances, just ask for & take the doxy. He is in DE. There was an article in my local paper and a map showing DE in 2005 to be one of the top worst endemic states to date (map 2005)
What more can I do? I get the feeling he is not really wanting to talk much more about this. I am very concerned & worried about him.
Please does anyone have any short easy to read article that might counter the mis-information his duck is telling him? "That since the tick attachment was 3-4 weeks ago the doxy med would do no good"
thanks in advance Dana
ps: He got a dog a year ago & was pulling ticks off his dogs with his hands. I told him to use tweezer but to no avail. This was about the same time my brother told me in confidence that he has noticed my that my father was having some memory problems.
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I think this whole situation that people face from there local docs totally is insane.
Now you have to wait up to 6 weeks to just get tested? That is if your local duck will even agree to run any tests or admitt there may be lyme Disease in their state.
Once you get the ELSIA first ...which is 70% inaccurte & then if you are lucky enough to get a positive then you have to wait to get the WB results back.
Now you are talking about 2 months at the very least, to wait to even consider treating with abx. 2 months is plenty of time for LD to become chronic. This is a crime a sin & totally crazy.
I would bet my life that Bush didn't have to run this rat maze.
Things have got to change on the local level of the GP's. They are the first line of defense a patient will go to see.
gerrrrrrrr
Thanks for letting me vent. Dana
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"This waiting 2 months approach" is very dangerous.
But I think the real truth is, this ducks & all the other ducks are covering their a$$.
Now try to follow me...sorry if I am good at being concise today:
The duck said the following: "Since the tick attchment was 3 to 4 weeks already the doxy med would be no good"
So you wait at least 2 months to get the test results back. And if you are lucky enough to test positve with their inaccurate test...magically now the doxy will do some good.
Is there any sence to this?
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Dana, I'm so sorry this is happening to your father, it is so frustrating to watch our families listen to the mis-information given out by ducks! And to see them suffer as a result is even more painful.
One would think our families would know better.
My niece is 13, and returned last week from summer camp in NY with an attached tick. Her duck will do nothing, not even a test, just watch for symptoms. And of course, her parents trust this duck implicitly. Anything I say just lends itself to their perception of me as the crazy tick lady.
Arrrrggh!
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Dana,
I am sorry you are going through this. My elderly father was bitten a year ago (I was already four years into chronic Lyme/coinfections by this point). Despite my having been bitten here in San Diego and had not been believed by the doctors, they would not believe my dad either - with me standing there crying, as living proof!
Fortunately, my dad was willing to get on Doxy, even though we could only get a low dose from a doctor until I could get him in to see my LLMD hours away.
I got my dad into treatment five days after the rash. Even on low-dose Doxy he went downhill and was practically bedridden. However, after months on Doxy and other antibiotics at high Lyme doses, he improved and went into remission. He did relapse lightly recently, went back on meds, and is doing well.
Please use my dad as an example if it will motivate your dad.
Jill
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Me too, sorry about that. Unfortunately most people trust ducks and not chronic lyme sufferers!
If he changes his mind, there's always vet abx around to give try (even against his duck wills).
Or herbs (if he's more toward that alternative tx, you could suggest B's herbs?). Just an idea.
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Oh, Dana, I am right there with you. I am soooo frustrated right now with my parents that I could scream!
My mother had the bullseye rash several years ago, before the stuff about lyme came out in magazines and such, and has had SEVERAL tests which have ALL come back negative. So her duck says "you don't have it!" Then he said"but there is some whore down in Springfield that is telling people that they have lyme when they don't."
I have sent my dad all kinds of stuff from this site and others. So she gets another test to satisfy me, without telling me, and she so proudly tells me that this test is going to Kansas City. ARGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH!! I have told them Ignex over and over!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I don't know what else to do!!!!!!!!! She has gotten so bad healthwise but I just don't know what to do.
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quote:Originally posted by 5dana8: I think this whole situation that people face from there local docs totally is insane.
Now you have to wait up to 6 weeks to just get tested?
I know! Sometimes it does no good whatsoever to tell people to get tested because if they use one of those LOUSY labs or the ELISA, nothing's going to show up!
Keep pushing. Show him what has happened to the President. Ask him if he wants to end up like Pres Reagan. I think it's pretty obvious they both had/have lyme.
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