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Hi Everyone, I arrived home Friday morning from a trip to the Ozarks with a tick in each ankle.
I'd been helping with some horses (I had not planned to be out), and went back in after a few minutes to put on pants, socks and shoes instead of my shorts and sandals.
This was on Wednesday and I found the first tick on Friday morning, (doc didn't even check the second foot, much less offer prophylactic treatment).
The ER doctor said to just wait to see if I develop symptoms. The second one was found on Saturday (48 and 72 hours embedded).
Thanks to God and all of you who write it out, I learned of what I needed & went to a Walgreens Clinic and got care that surpassed what the ER doc and even my own doc was willing to do.
The nurse practitioner gave me 200mg of Doxycycline Monday (yestereday) at 2:30 pm. She even knew what I needed before I asked!
Now, it's Tuesday and the 36 hour bite is blistered. Can anyone here ease my mind?
I SO want to scrape by with a close call and a lesson learned and nothing more. Any insights are greatly appreciated.
I'm so sorry I didn't know how to make this easier to read.
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WEll i would say that one dose of doxy isnt going to do much for you unfortuantely. You should be on at least 300mg doxy 2x a day for 4-6 weeks!!! I would find a LLMD in seeking a doctor.
good luck. take pictures of the bites!!
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Right, you should be on 200 mg. twice daily for 4-6 weeks. I would be concerned and would get treatment.
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take pictures, and make sure a doctor (or go back to nurse) sees the sore, and have them write that in your medical chart. that way, if you have problems later, you have some evidence.
You should find an LLMD and make appointment regardless. You need 4-6 weeks of 200mg doxy 2 x a day. Research shows that taking antibiotics for shorter time frames can cause you to come up negative on tests, but not whipe out the disease
Tuleremia (also transmitted by ticks) can cause a sore to develop around the tick bite area.
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Nope--200 mg/day doesn absolutely nothign for Lyme. You need 400, and you should really continue with it for 3 months after all of your symptoms resolve. Do whatever it takes to get enough doxy such that you can do this, and then educate yourself about the disease and get to an LLMD. The CDC's been lying about this disease since day 1, so most docs know nothing about it.
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This explains the medical politics around lyme WHY you need an ILADS-educated or ILADS-member LLMD (and there are also some ILADS-member LL NDs (naturopathic doctors):
You should also be evaluated for coinfections. Not all tests are great in that regard, either, but a good LLMD can evaluate you and then guide you in testing. One of the top labs is:
"With most infections, your immune system first forms IgM antibodies, then in about 2 to 4 weeks, you see IgG antibodies. In some infections, IgG antibodies may be detectable for years.
Because Borrelia burgdorferi is a chronic persistent infection that may last for decades, you would think patients with chronic symptoms would have positive IgG Western blots.
But actually, more IgM blots are positive in chronic borreliosis than IgG. Every time Borrelia burgdorferi reproduces itself, it may stimulate the immune system to form new IgM antibodies.
Some patients have both IgG and IgM blots positive. But if either the IgG or IgM blot is positive, overall it is a positive result.
Response to antibiotics is the same if either is positive, or both. Some antibodies against the borrelia are given more significance if they are IgG versus IgM, or vice versa.
Since this is a chronic persistent infection, this does not make a lot of sense to me. A newly formed Borrelia burgdorferi should have the same antigen parts as the previous bacteria that produced it.
But anyway, from my clinical experience, these borrelia associated bands usually predict a clinical change in symptoms with antibiotics, regardless of whether they are IgG or IgM." ===========
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I detailed as much as I could of the things I NEVER knew before it happened to me (I drove 350 miles with a deer tick in each ankle). I OUTED the ISDA too.
At the bottom I added a much deserved thank you to the people of LymeNet, and a mention/promotion of the movie, "Under Our Skin".
My husband and I watched all of the trailers this weekend, and I cried. I can't *believe* this is America!
I will still feel like I won the lottery if I don't get sick. I will still be forever in your debt.
I will do my part to advance the cause the the awareness of Lyme Disease. You ALL have me forever!
I WILL see the movie. I will tell everyone I know to go too. I will bring tissue!
I am Grateful I am angry! ...that our government would DO this to the people! I LOVE every one of you for what you do!
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I went to Ellington....And my cousin's home, but Mom drove, so I can't remember the town! LOL
Um...All my doc was willing to give was 100mg tabs two teimes per day. IT took SO much just to get this far.
I'm tired (note as implied in my blog) that I wasn't in perfect health when I got bitten.
This could hurt me during any muscle ache/fatigue phases of Lyme(should they arise), as I have a spinal stenosis that is blamed for causing this in my legs for years. Yikes.
I think I'm stuck with the 200mg per day and Lotsa Prayer.
Isn't Missouri About the MOST beautiful thing you've ever SEEN???!??
I've seen every part of California, and it can't hold a candle to the peace and beauty of
Missouri. Only reason I'm careful how often I say this on the web or show pics is because I never want to see California'S fate (overcrowding and overpricing) visited upon anyone else.
Did ya see my blog? Did ya like it?? I hope SOMEONE reads it. I've never blogged before now, so I don't know how it all works out for people to find it. www.tickedoffliterally.blogspot.com
Actualy I did read 90 Minutes in Heaven! I've panicked when ever near trucks ever since. IN fact, I drove by night to MO so I would be among fewer on the road! Funny you should ask!
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