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So I pulled the SECOND attached deer tick this year off of me 8 days ago, and sent it in for testing. The first tick had been negative for Lyme, babs, and bart via Clongen. I couldn't afford to do that much testing on this tick again, but am of course terrified of getting reinfected with everything after years of treatment.
Anyway, so I only tested this one for Lyme (via UMass testing) and not coinfections. It was thankfully negative, but now I'm regretting not testing it for more as I started having bart and babs symptoms that I haven't had for awhile.
I know bart is now more common in ticks in the NE than Lyme, but what about statistics on babesia? Does anyone know how often babs occurs in NE ticks without Lyme?
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For whatever it's worth, I was recently at a lyme presentation and the speaker, a very good PA, said that they do not even test ticks anymore for lyme since essentially they empty everything out when they transmit.
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