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Hello, I am new and freaked out... saw a tick last week and pulled it off...went to the cabinet and popped a doxycycline immediately went to doc next morning and got a prescription... thought I was fine till today I saw a Bullseye under both armpits!!! How can this be if I am on the Doxy??? Am I being re bitten.... my Doctor is a clown.. typical Family poo poo it away guy... what do I do I am in a state of panic?? Am at least ok if I am currently on the doxy... is the bullseye just a symptom the antibiotic doesn't affect or does this mean the drug is ineffective???
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The new book "The Lyme Disease Solution" by Singleton - see Amazon - might be in some of your local book stores. You might call to see. He's not too far from you - he's in Baltimore.
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* Can you take a digital photo in good light - both areas ? If you, can you get a friend to do so?
* It's Friday evening, but does your doctor take phone calls ?
See on Amazon: "Healing Lyme" by Buhner. He also has a web site: http://planetthrive.com Some LLMDs incorporate his research.
Good luck.
Really, this may feel like a freak out moment, but it's just a curve ball. It's something to note and there are ways to move on with success. You'll soon find out what those ways may be.
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Take a picture of it!!! Take one with your face in the pic, one closeup, and one with a newspaper date next to the rash.
You may need the proof later for insurance purposes... or to prove to another dr that you indeed had the bullseye.
A picture can be worth a thousand words.
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TuTu has a very good point. The rash may have appeared even without the doxy.
Great suggestion from her about identification of yourself and the date.
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I edited my posts above to delete my over-reaction after I found some notes I made when this came up for me a while back.
One of the leaders of a state lyme support group told me that she had heard of
"several people who - when beginning doxycycline - had the bulls-eye - or even several bulls-eye pop up -- even at sites other than the bite and even when they had not had a recent bite."
She said they continued treatment and the rashes eventually faded in a matter of a week or ten days. Remedies to minimize the herx reactions helped.
(In my case, the rash was unbearable and I could not continue. Most bulls-eye rashes do not burn or itch, I'm told.)
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All the confusion aside, you are very lucky that you are addressing this early on.
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Wow just got back in from going to the urgent care facility... Dr. there said it is odd to have similar sized rashes..peeling...under each armpit and no bullseye around where i actually removed a tick. She made several key points... Doxy is very irritating to the skin and it might be making me sensitive my deodorant, EM's don't peel like sunburn... EM's spread like a ripple effect ..they dont show up one day 7 inches in Diameter.. I am repeating what she said... the key for me is that the place where I removed the tick had no bullseye... THe fungal rash makes alot of sense since the armpit is a sweat gland area that purges antibiotics 10 fold from the body...regardless i am keeping a close eye and putting my Dog up for adoption!
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Cooper,
I'm glad you went to the doctor.
If the rash under your arms was not a bulls-eye as you previously thought and it is peeling skin, well, then, the doctor may have made a good observation, especially since it's under both arms and you have been using anti-persp.
However, I'm not sure about all her statements.
An EM can show up all at once and they do not always have a ripple effect.
While a bulls-eye rash is always lyme, a lyme rash is not always a bulls-eye.
And a lyme EM rash does not always appear at the bite site.
Still, it is calming information in this case.
I hope you will still take the photos - even if you are documenting how a specific deodorant has reacted.
And, I hope you will seek out additional sources from the links above - as you continue your treatment. Since you pulled off an attached tick, you would still need to be evaluated for co-infections and possibly still get a lyme test.
Please read more about this to be sure all your bases are covered as this could be a very slim window of time to do everything correctly.
If you did contract lyme, you have a very good chance, so please take excellent care of yourself.
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Cooper,
If you post again, please make short paragraphs.
Most of us here can't read without lots of white space. It's just a big swirl of grey. You'll get more replies with more white space.
thanks.
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Please take pictures of all rashes, suspicious or not. This was very beneficial in my case when I presented them to my doc....he said they were classic bullseyes.
Best wishes to you.
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