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About a year before I became very ill my husband and I travelled to Germany. At one point on our trip we travelled to a lodge in Tegernsee in the Bavarian Alps. We were deep in the wilderness and my husband and I hiked through the woods around the lodge.
After we came home I was tired more than usual. It was nothing like when my illness hit me really bad but I was unusually tired and required a short nap every day. We thought it was jet lag at first. When the fatigue remained my husband and I thought it was because I had just started taking Zoloft.
Anyway, nothing more came of the fatigue until we built our log home in Indiana on a heavily wooded lot. I was definitely exposed to ticks and had the rash and a quick decline in my health so I'm wondering if maybe I was bit in Germany and then was bit again and the combination led to a rapid deterioration.
Does anyone know anything about the European strains of Lyme? Can anyone shed some light on my theory? Maybe I'm just looking too much into a coincidence.
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Germany has lots of ticks. My sister in law was bit there. They actually vaccinate against Lyme I was told.
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Yes, Tegernsee is an area where you can get infected. Germany has a vaccination against meningitis caused by ticks, they say the severe form and they say it is not for the borrelia. I am not a doctor and do not understand the difference but know people who died from an acute lyme meningitis within a day.
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Yes, Tegernsee is an area where you can get infected. Germany has a vaccination against meningitis caused by ticks, they say the severe form and they say it is not for the borrelia. I am not a doctor and do not understand the difference but know people who died from an acute lyme meningitis within a day.
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I was speculating that maybe I picked up a milder form of Lyme in Germany or my body kind of fought it for awhile and then when I was bit and reinfected again with Lyme and cos in Indiana, maybe that's why I got so sick so fast.
I don't understand the dynamics of being re-infected and the different strain of Lyme so I am at a loss. Can anyone shed any light on this?
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