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I am in Tallahassee, Florida, and good chance I have lyme disease. Briefly, I traveled to upstate New York this summer during June and while up there all of a sudden I noticed on my leg a bright red cirlce probably slightly larger than a quarter, it did not burn, itch or anything just BRIGHT RED. I have allergies and am overly sensitive to things, so I thought I must have brushed up against something and just had a reaction over the next couple of weeks, it went away. I spent the month of August in upstate NY again and when I got back on September 4th, after getting out of the shower I broke out in a rash on my chest and back, while drying off my legs I noticed the red mark was back as bright as before. I went to my doctor and one nurse practioner looked at me and said classic case of lyme disease, another came in and said no it is not, no bulls eye, I asked to get the blood test and the blood test says I have lyme disease. I went to an infectious disease specialist who looked at the blood work and said he doesn't think I am as infected as I thought. He mentioned Western Blot, IGG and IGM etc.... I walked out totally confused.
From about when I went to the doctor to now, my only symptoms are archy joints, one day my knee will be sore, next day ankles, even my toes. Yesterday I felt great no soreness at all, today my ankles are midly achy again.
I am attaching a copy of the picture of the red mark:
Also here is a link to a pdf of my blood work results:
I found an article online tonight about the area I was in while in NY. I walked around the lake they mentioned in the article multiple times with my dad too:
I have been on antibiotics for two weeks, 100mg doxycycline twice a day for the past two weeks.
Posts: 9 | From Tallahassee, Florida | Registered: Oct 2008
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Hey I grew up in Syracuse, used to go to Green Lakes all the time. Anyways, I'm sure someone will be along to tell you about your test results. You will learn very quickly that this is a very controversial disease and most doctors will tell you that you don't have it. Look up underourskin.com and watch the trailer. Good luck, Sara
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See what Stressed Out said about finding a lyme doc in Florida. It is (mistakenly, I believe) in this thread which has nothing to do with Florida:
That's the message I've been hearing too. I know people who live in Florida flying to Maryland for their lyme treatment.
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