If your doctor was willing to prescribe 28 days of doxy after a tick bite and you saved the tick, would you get it tested for lyme only (not coinfections)?
Posted by Bartenderbonnie (Member # 49177) on :
Yes terv, get it tested. It could be another piece to this nightmare jigsaw puzzle. And because testing is now FREE in many states.
Posted by Lymetoo (Member # 743) on :
I would get it tested, but DO KNOW that the test could come back falsely negative. I had that happen to me.
Posted by terv (Member # 29410) on :
I ask because a person on facebook said that it wasn't useful and just a revenue stream.
If the doctor is willing to prescribe the doxy, does the tick testing (for lyme only and no other tick stuff) help the patient?
I could see it being beneficial if the person got it tested for the co-infections too but was wondering if she had a point.