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Our daughter had a tick bite at the age of 6 that hospitalized her. The bite was on her scalp, so we wouldn't have seen the rash. In the following 7-8 months she had mysterious oval rashes on other parts of her body(along with other symptoms). It still took almost 6 years to get a diagnosis of Lyme and Bartonella!
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I do remember the bite, although I am not sure I wasn't bitten prior to that incident. I do not remember the rash or flu like symptoms.
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I contracted Lyme Disease in the spring of 1983 while I was vacationing in Hackensack, Minnesota. I received my very first western blot and diagnosis in July, 2004.
Yes, classic bull's eye. I remember the rash on the top of my foot like it was yesterday. Doctors thought the rash was a spider bite. From what I've read here the spider bite is a pretty common theme.
It didn't take very long for the rash to bloom -- it covered the top of my foot and extended down along the sides. Some time later a red streak developed and it ran from the top of my foot all the way up to my knee. I hobbled around the entire summer with my swollen foot. The rash didn't hurt at first, but my sandals/shoes rubbed it until it was inflamed and swollen. The rash would heal, I'd wear shoes and it would break open again. When it healed the center had a persistent tiny peak, and it itched intensely.
Some time after the rash cleared, my big toenail fell off. There were no signs of infection or trauma to the toenail. It simply plinked off as I was getting dressed one morning.
21 years later and I have a bony? lump where the center of the rash was. The skin is discolored near the center -- it looks like a mole or a large freckle.
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I believe I've had at least three bites. I had a rash once. It had a red center, pink encircling it, and white encircling that. I saw an fairly LL MD, but she didn't think it was a Lyme rash. Well, I did take a stupid risk walking through tall grass in flared jeans. The rash was on a leg, and I seemed to get sicker afterwards. Doesn't take a rocket scientist, huh?
I vaguely seem to recall seeing something small and black on a leg once, scratching it, and bleeding.
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Welcome to Lymenet! I have been here a week and the people/angels on this forum have been VERY helpful and kind! Lots of Love spreading around, too!
I don't recall a tick bite. I don't recall a rash. But my life was so complicated I could have had all of the above and not noticed!
I did have Epstein-Barr in the 80's and other infectious diseases and a brown recluse spider bite that seemed to thrown me for a loop! Fibromyalgia and fatigue became MUCH worse after the spider bite!
I suspected Lyme 3 years ago but found no one to test me and did not pursue it.
Had emergency hospitalization with infectious colitis from shrimp and asked for Lyme test.
Was told by the MD that he honestly did not know where to send the test to get accurate results. So, I waited and in April '04 had an abscess at the site of the 4 year old spider bite and a dental abscess. Asked for a Lyme test and it was positive from MD Lab and also from Bowen Lab BUT Western Blot from Lab Corp was negative...
So, guess I needed to vent, too! So MANY of us KNEW we had it... JUST COULD NOT GET THE TESTS WE NEEDED and some got the tests and STILL were not treated properly!
Whatever you are experiencing you have some VERY INFORMED people here who can advise you!
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I don't ever recall being bitten or having a rash.
I've had ticks on me though.
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When I was 12, I had a bug bite on my neck. A red circular rash developed around the bite, and I had a headache and chills. I still remember the kids making fun of me in school...it was too big to cover with a scarf.
This was in 1986. My mom took me to the ER, and they said I was having an allergic reaction. A dermatologist said the same thing.
1 year later, there was an article in the New York Times about Lyme. My mom recognized the rash as what I had immediately.
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I was 21 when I developed infectious mono and got chronic fatigue that has never left me 34 yrs. later.
After I married at age 25, my husband and friends rented a cabin by the lake. One night we watched fireworks & I got bite galore by "chiggers", sp? The next day my entire body was covered, but we DO NOT remember seeing any type of a bulls eye.
I have never seen a tick on me in 34 yrs.
7 yrs. ago I began having mysterious rashes on my elbows, chest, tummy, knees, thighs, etc. I went to my regular dr. galore plus skin drs. where I had 4 BIOPSIES done....ALL NEGATIVE "UNKNOWN BUG BITE"! Yeh, right!
twice I had a 2x4" patch of skin on my back gone and they biopsied w/that stupid response above! It's reoccured every since every 4-6 wks.
I was dx 7-12-04; 34 yrs. after the fact ... late state lyme! How disgusting NO ONE ever ordered a lyme test.
Also they sent ELISA to Mayo Clinic; negative.
Had western blot IGG & IGM done by IGX, California....positive for 7/16 and 11/16!
Clinic then sent WB again this time to Mayo Clnic ... NEGATIVE ON 2 AND 5 BANDS ONLY vs. 16 bands Calif. does! Betty G., Iowa
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