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I have a 13 year old son with a 3-4week 2-3cm discolouration with a pimple lesion inside. There was an outer area of darkening starting, so I though Lyme, and took him to Dr. I was told it was fungus infection, but now he has a distinct outer darker area approx 6-8 inches long and then the smaller area still on the inside, 2 distinct rashes. I'm not convinced with initial diagnosis or fungus or ringworm. I've seen that before, this is not scaly or rough. Can't get another appt for 1 week, would you push for more?
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I would immediately take pictures with a ruler or pencil next to it/them as well, make sure they are dated and if you cant date your camera then put a newspaper or notecard with the date on it as well in the pix
at least this way you will have it for future reference, if i had this i dont think i would have gone through as much as i have in getting a diagnosis
it could be as they say though, but a picture is worth a thousand words in case you cannot get in before it fades or goes away completely
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adamm
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Get to an LLMD ASAP! Your son's life depends on it.
Every Lyme patient has to put up with a million misdiagnoses.
google "under our skin" to get some sense of the
atrocity that is the covering-up of the Lyme epidemic.
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Did you see a tick? Not seeing one doesnt mean anything.
I agree aout the taking pictures of this rash. can you post a pic of the rash?? Any other symptoms?? I would want to have my kid on antibiotics for at least a month if it was a lyme rash. You dont want to wait a week for an appointment. I would go to the local ER and see about getting antibiotics ASAP.
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don't waste your time. even if you get a diagnosis, they will only give him 14-21 days of doxy, and that is not enough. the n he will end up chronic like us.
maybe if you get to a LLMD right away its not too late and he can still get cured
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