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I grew up in a place where ticks were very common. picked them off me all the time growing up but never got sick.
4 years ago I visited home and 2 weeks after my visit I crashed with acute lyme symptoms. Non tick, no bite, no rash. Not sure when I got the bite but that's the story.
3 weeks of doxy (textbook teatment) made it go away until it came back a year ago. 6 months of mystery and 6 months of treatment and I'm finally feeling close to normal.
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i NEVER DID! mine came from folk's live xmas tree 69; never saw it; never had bulls-eye.
used my daily journal to back track when i got sick! always SUB-ZERO IOWA; NO GARDENING; NO PETS ... eliminated all normal ways of getting ticks!
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Never did.
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hubby never saw the tick but had a hugh bulls-eye on the calf of his right leg....1 yr later he started getting sick....i told all the Drs about the bulls-eye and not one thought it was anything to worry about...but deep inside i knew maybe it was a tick....and 4 yrs later i was right we finally saw a Lyme Dr....Madge
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I sre don't and it's the reason I question this Lyme Dx every moment of every day.
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The only tick I remember pulling off of me was way back when I was 14 years old. I don't think I got LD back then. I became ill with LD at age 48. I was basically healthy until then.
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I don't recall a tick bite in my life, and am not an outdoors person *at all* the only time I am outside is walking to/from my vehicle!
I never had a bull's eye rash, either.
I grew up in Western New York, then lived in Philly, and now in Maryland, so I have been in endemic areas.
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NO bite, NO bullseye
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I don't recall a tick bite or a rash, however I am from rural PA and we always had bites of all sorts of things...chiggers, etc.
21 years ago when I got sick I don't think I would have recognized a tick.
-------------------- The fibromyalgia I've had for 32 years was an undiagnosed Lyme symptom.
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I don't remember a tick or bull's eye rash. I did get a bad flu in the summer when I moved into my apartment in NJ 12 or 13 years ago.
About 6 months later, I started getting Fibromyalgia type symptoms. They said I had Fibro... 9 years later, I got a clinical Lyme diagnosis.
Hard to say what it really is...
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No tickbite, no rash--- but i was out in the garden all the time in a wooded area with deer,mice, etc.
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Never saw a tick in real life ever. I got bit somewhere in Asia or Australia I think. No rash. Got odd symptoms of numbness and ciatica first and got really sick a year later in Cambodia.
I think it must have been a second bite at that time that was the tipping point.
I was trekking in the mountains in Laos and staying in villages with farm animals in close proximity. I think that was where the Bartonella infection was acquired.
That was almost 3 years ago now.
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Never grab or pick or soap or oil or matches them off without using right method. This tool works the best I have found.
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No bite, no rash. One year earlier, before symptoms hit, I had been on a brush-busting back country hiking trip (in a "non-endemic" area...hmmmm). My dad was on the same trip, no bite for him either, but he did notice some "weird" rashes several weeks after the trip. Both of us have Lyme and co's. TS
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No tick, no rash that I ever recall.
But I grew up in PA and was always out in the woods or mountains running around.
And in college I was in the Geology Cllub, so we were always out in the field doing all sorts of things.
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Same for me. I saw no tick. I do remember having some weird bug bites, but I'd been vacationing in South Carolina and I just figured it was from the different bugs down south (my first time down south).
I also got sick (flu-like, sore throat) and it was all downhill from there. I started making the flu connection more than a decade later when I really started educating myself on Lyme.
I had however seen the large ticks on our dog growing up. The dog died when he was 9 (he was an Australian Shepard, so surely had some 'time' left). He had arthritis for years, and he just kept getting sicker. My mom and I think now that he probably had Lyme.
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I remember the bite and rash but never saw it. It was under my pants at work. Now my question is did I pick it up walking my dog or did it go on my dog and then jump on me. Not like I would ever know because he is black. Showed my doctor and he said the rash was nothing and I never heard of lyme disease.
7 years later just started treating. I wonder how much I could have avoided if there was more Lyme Awareness back then as well as my doctor.
No one thinks its in Ohio but it is it is.
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Out of our family of 5 who all have it, only two of us had the rash. And just to note one was a type of bullseye but the other was just a mild round rash- could be mistaken for anything else. So all 5 of us have Lyme and multiple coinfections and only 2 saw the ticks too! I believe these things bite fast now and the bacteria is in their saliva glands (not so much the gut now). So the standard old myth that the tick has to be on you for over 24 hours is so outdated!!!!!
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