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Topic: New Maine Member Seeking Lyme Literate MD

JimT
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Member # 16315

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I live in southern coastal maine where tics are plentiful.

History - I was out and about in woods/ back of our home several weeks ago and may have been exposed to tics and infected.

Symptoms started flu-like 7/3/08 with fever. Tylenol brought it down.

Symptoms returned 7/9 and now include swollen neck glands, fatigue, some fever and as of 2 days ago stabbing neck lower jaw pain that comes in short frequent bursts lasting 2-3 seconds each for an hour opr 2 at a time. Really painful but tylenol or advil relieve and the pain might stop for 2-3 hours. Running over an hour today and no symptoms during the run, but on stopping -it's back. Dopamine affect?

Saw weekend MD at clinic 7/12 and expressed my concern that this, despite what my reg docs office said it was (a virus) last week, could well be Lyme Dis. He agreed that it could be...He prescribed 21 days of Doxycycline, take 1 100 mg cap 2 x per day, or 200 mg's per day total. Also a blood test (Western blot I think) to be done this comning week and if the test is negative I can stop the Doxy.

Since leaving the Docs offfice yesterday and starting to immerse myself in what's out there on this condition (as you can see, I am VERY new to this) I realized that the weekend clinic's advice does not sound like most Lyme groups would recommend for testing and/ or treatment.

(1) Can someone recommend a southern Maine (Portland) area doctor?
(2) Should the dosage be 400 mgs of Doxy per day x later of 4-6 weeks or 4 weeks symptom-free?
(3) What specifically should I have for a test?- Can you attached link, etc on this?

Thank you for your time and good luck to everyone who has this disease. Keep the faith.

Jim

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shazdancer
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Jim, check your private messages.

-- Shaz

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KS
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pm sent...

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