School me on Lyme Disease

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Originally Posted By: oilpsi2high
I found this pimple-like mark on my stomach area


I'd get my x-acto knife and dig the tick out (if it was me)
 
I had it in the mid 80's. Tests were pretty new and not very accurate. A local EMT had gotten it and was teaching my course and got me in to her specialist after I noticed I was having arthritis like symptoms in my hands among couple other issues. Immediately put me on Tetracycline. 2 days latter much better but except for side affects.
Get pretty concerned about ticks around here with 3 dogs
 
Originally Posted By: oilpsi2high
Fingers crossed I get seen by a hot nurse!


Don't let them tell you the tests are negative and send you home, as mentioned early treatment is crucial.

Insist on a course of antibiotics ASAP just to be on the safe side. Doxycycline is one, been around long time and is safe.
 
Lyme test is not conclusive.
Go on antibiotics now.
A tick bite combined with flu-like symptoms is alarm enough.
A bulls-eye is not always present.

Go to a physician thoroughly versed in tick borne illnesses because the current standard anti-biotic treatment is insufficient. Lyme specialists who deal with this daily are doubling the standard dosage. GP's are not aware of this.

Just saw you are in CO. Lyme is not found very often in CO, it is more typical for other tick borne illnesses but they still require antibiotics. I have had 3 tick illnesses in 5 years.

If you ever remove a tick then save it for identification purposes.
 
http://underourskin.com/#home-underourskin

Great documentary on the effects of this disease, unfortunately its not very well known and the approved procedure to treat it isnt very good at all. Most doctors that prescribe an extra round of anti biotics or try their own methods have been blacklisted or had their medical licenses revoked. Find a Lyme specific doctor in your area and use them, they will be much better prepared to fight this off. Some people have lost motor skills, one poor girl was a ballerina dancer and is now in a wheel chair. My friend has had it for over 6 years now and is still dealing with symptoms, even after 3 rounds of the typical anti biotic treatments.
 
Originally Posted By: Audios
http://underourskin.com/#home-underourskin

Great documentary on the effects of this disease, unfortunately its not very well known and the approved procedure to treat it isnt very good at all. Most doctors that prescribe an extra round of anti biotics or try their own methods have been blacklisted or had their medical licenses revoked. Find a Lyme specific doctor in your area and use them, they will be much better prepared to fight this off. Some people have lost motor skills, one poor girl was a ballerina dancer and is now in a wheel chair. My friend has had it for over 6 years now and is still dealing with symptoms, even after 3 rounds of the typical anti biotic treatments.


This is spot on and well informed advice.
 
A few years ago I removed a tick from under my armpit and brought it to my doctor.
He didn't even bother testing it but rather gave me a prescription for doxycycline....I never had any problems afterwards. Take the antibiotic as either a cure or a prophylactic.
 
So the doc might not even know I have it?

I'll prob be seen by a nurse. My regular doc is on vacation this week now that I think about it.

Still seems like a waste of time!
 
Even more rare, but don't overlook your mouse incident and hantavirus: https://www.cdc.gov/hantavirus/hps/symptoms.html

"Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome advances through two distinct stages. In the first stage, you may experience flu-like signs and symptoms that may include:

Fever and chills
Headaches and muscle aches
Vomiting, diarrhea or abdominal pain "

Did you i.d. any of your caught mice as deer mice? Have you been cleaning out old areas with lots of mouse droppings, stirring up the dust??
 
Definitely deer mice. I vacuumed the entire house like a week ago.

I'm in NY. Five cases of hantavirus since 1995. I highly doubt it's that. No breathing issues either.
 
A time wasting "thing I heard", anyone?

My mother set her arm on a picnic table on the east side of the Hudson River in sight of the Tappan Zee Bridge.
She got bit by something and got Lyme disease. Diagnosed and treated by a good Lyme doctor.

I found a tick after it had burrowed into a personal part of my thigh, dug it out with an exacto knife and did nothing. I had been in the Adirondack Mountains.

We heard later that ticks from sub-divided land are corralled by development and become inbred. They transmit disease.
Upstate, free ticks are not inbred and acquire diseases less frequently.

I was a total jack @zz for not seeking treatment even though I didn't get ill. I figured a tick that deeply imbedded in my meat would've been there long enough for disease to have evidenced itself and I felt OK.

Never again will I do that especially since the early treatment is so easy. You don't want what my mother went through.
 
The advice to go to a Lyme doctor is wise. My wife had Lyme 4 years ago. Our family doctor put her on 2 weeks of antiboitics which was enough to ease her pain, but it didn't kill it and she got sick again. It took a lot longer to treat the second time and she now has continued joint pain that may never go away and could advance into arthritis. And that is after seeing a specialist. Go to the doctor, get 4 weeks of meds and don't take no for an answer.

Also, bullseye bites are not a good indicator. As has been pointed out, people can get Lyme without one and you can get the bullseye and not get Lyme.

In addition, there is no scientific evidence for transmission through mosquitoes, fleas, lice, etc. If you get sick from one of those bites, it is something other than Lyme.

Good luck, friend!
 
I'm more worried about the hantavirus right now rather than the lyme. The fact that I believe a mouse was in my bed is suspect enough.
 
I know all about the bullseye rash. It means: go get a 28 day course of doxycycline. It is a spirochete bacteria , kin to syphilis. I dig them out and usually leave their jaws in. Treatment for that is making a hole, letting a hard scab form and then pulling it off . If you dug the hole deep enough,the tick remains will be in the scab.I have done this several times since April.Prevention is easy. Blouse your pant cuff into your socks. I have a pair of old boots that I spray hornet killer on. 2% Permethrin works great and is less bad for you. I found some lemon grass spray (whatever) and used that a few times seems to work. Remove your clothes immediately and take a shower. Keeping the lawn short and garlic spray seem to work. I have a shallow well and I try not to use too many long chain molecules.
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Originally Posted By: oilpsi2high
Definitely deer mice. I vacuumed the entire house like a week ago.

I'm in NY. Five cases of hantavirus since 1995. I highly doubt it's that. No breathing issues either.


Not hanta in your region. That is a SW concern.

If it was you are already dead.
 
I feel fine now. Slightly tired but I also haven't been exercising like normal.

Still worried about that mouse virus though, especially living in the Adk Mountains. That really freaks me out and I probably won't sleep at all tonight.

Maybe it's time to move back to suburbia. LOL
 
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