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Topic: how many of you tested positive for rmsf?

nyjohn
LymeNet Contributor
Member # 15361

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got some results today,

positive for rmsf and mycoplasma in addition to my already positive lyme.

waiting on babs.
i hope it's negative, rmsf seems pretty scary.

i did a search and i don't seem to find much on rmsf...
i only assume that people here on this board do have it!

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Tincup
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Member # 5829

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I had it... two times so far. A couple others have had it also more than once.

Doxycycline should take care of it... and even if you can't tell you have it (no spots, etc)... it does need to be treated.

Glad you finally have some answers.

[Big Grin]

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nyjohn
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Member # 15361

posted

thanks tincup

wow i would have thought more people (than just a couple more) would have had it since it is apparently more rampant than we previously thought!

john

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princesslee
Member
Member # 12141

posted

My 19 yr old son has it, and so do about 4 other family members.

Just wondering....about the spots....can they be located in just one area? My son has red spots all over his scalp, but nowhere else.

He is currently taking doxy and biaxin alternately for lyme and RMSF, but his spots are still there.

Also, do the spots fade, get bright red, then fade again?

Thanks!

P.S. Our LLMD just started to test for RMSF in his patients as routine because they were told it wasn't in our area. He said that somewhere like 50% of his patients are testing positive for it.

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Dawnee
Unregistered

posted

Yep.. RMSF here as well as Mycoplasma. I don't ever recall any dots and I don't know when I got the RMSF... it was either in Arkansas when I was 10, or in Tennessee when I was 23 (I'm 30 now)

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