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If your doctor was willing to prescribe 28 days of doxy after a tick bite and you saved the tick, would you get it tested for lyme only (not coinfections)?
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Bartenderbonnie
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Yes terv, get it tested. It could be another piece to this nightmare jigsaw puzzle. And because testing is now FREE in many states.
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I ask because a person on facebook said that it wasn't useful and just a revenue stream.
If the doctor is willing to prescribe the doxy, does the tick testing (for lyme only and no other tick stuff) help the patient?
I could see it being beneficial if the person got it tested for the co-infections too but was wondering if she had a point.
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