Was diagnosed with it today.The fever,the headache,the neck/back and joint pain are almost unbearable.I would not wish this upon anyone,I literally feel like the walking dead.

That sucks. Hopefully the meds kick in. If you need any help let me know.
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Yeah it stinks. Hope you have a quick recovery. I have found that the meds cause a dramatic improvement pretty quickly. My 11 year old is on them now. Buggers are everywhere in the woods this year.

Dude, that sucks, hope it mends quick

I have so many aches and pains I'd think I have it but doc assures me otherwise.

Sorry to hear that,my Sister,Brother in law and there dog all have it.
Talk about a miserable house.

I wish you well if ya need anything drop me a line i'm not to far from you.

I just finished my round of antibiotics...

Get on the "doxycycline" you will feel drastically better within the day... just stay out of the sun.

Thanks everyone.The other half works out of the house so I'm well taken care of.

Get on the "doxycycline" you will feel drastically better within the day... just stay out of the sun.

That's what was prescribed.The high fever and the insane headache just literally started going away just now,now maybe I can get some much needed sleep.The past three days have been hell.

I know one thing:if I'm doing anything outdoors the repellent will be used.I will not go through this again!

How much Doxy did they put you on? If less than 4 weeks I would be adamant about getting a full course.

Hope you feel better. Lyme does suck
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Get well soon, does seem.likeca bad tick year,found a few crawling on me Monday, none attached today, I haven't been outside all day, I was moving machinery with the forklift indoors, felt something on my neck crawling, damn tick..they are everywhere.
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For tick repellant, research "sawyer permethrin"

It is not meant for skin... it is a clothing treatment that repels
ticks . it stays on clothing even after 5 washes. I spray the hell out of my
pants and shirt that I wear when mowing the lawn or when I am crawling through the woods.

Bart, I thought 3 weeks was a full dose? thats what I got

Bart, I thought 3 weeks was a full dose? thats what I got

That's also what I got.

That's also what I got.

Think my kid was put on 14 days of doxy.

I tried repel tick defense with picardin this year and the ticks crawled up my pants like there was nothing there. They definitely freaked when I got them with a direct spray. Permethrins from here on out.
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If you just put a triple dose of Frontline on the back of your neck, you should be good
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Screw the flu shot..... they need to produce a tick-repelling
anti-lyme vaccine... I'll take a triple dose

Screw the flu shot..... they need to produce a tick-repelling
anti-lyme vaccine... I'll take a triple dose

It’s coming.
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I feel for you bud, ticks are the devil...

I've had lymes about 6 times now over the past 15 years. Crawling through the woods trout fishing will do that to you.

3 years ago I got ehrlichiosis, which is similar to lymes but on a whole other level. You do not know pain until you are throwing up and #^&#^&#^&#^&ting yourself at the same time, while sweating to death with a 104 degree fever.

I had a fun ER / hospital visit before they figured out what I had. Lost like 2 months of my life, and I consider myself lucky...

and oh yeah, that tick / erlich gave me the ALPHA gal allergy, AKA red meat allergy. I can't eat any animal born from live birth for the next 5-8 years.....

#^&#^&#^&#^& ticks

I feel for you bud, ticks are the devil...

3 years ago I got ehrlichiosis, which is similar to lymes but on a whole other level. You do not know pain until you are throwing up and #^&#^&#^&#^&ting yourself at the same time, while sweating to death with a 104 degree fever.

I had bacterial meninjitis 36yrs ago when I was 14,very similar symptoms to your ehrlichiosis.To find out I had it I had to have 4 spinal taps and that was a pain beyond any pain I've ever experienced,even when compared to broken bones because I knew it was coming.There was permanent damage from the meninjitis that will last my lifetime.

The lyme wasn't as bad as that but its the worst I've felt in the past 36yrs from an illness.

I tried repel tick defense with picardin this year and the ticks crawled up my pants like there was nothing there. They definitely freaked when I got them with a direct spray. Permethrins from here on out.
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I've been thinking about that.I've had reactions to deet so I use a highly concentrated picaridin spray.Time to get some permethrin.

Screw the flu shot..... they need to produce a tick-repelling
anti-lyme vaccine... I'll take a triple dose

IIRC someone came up with one about 10 years ago, it was FDA approved and they started to market it, but then it just disappeared. I wonder what happened?

It didn't repel ticks but it cured any tick that bit you that was carrying the Lyme virus.

IIRC someone came up with one about 10 years ago, it was FDA approved and they started to market it, but then it just disappeared. I wonder what happened?

It didn't repel ticks but it cured any tick that bit you that was carrying the Lyme virus.
Pheizer somd a lot of antibiotics. ;)

Also, a patient cured is a patient lost.
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Pheizer somd a lot of antibiotics. ;)

Also, a patient cured is a patient lost.
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You ain't kiddin!

Its insane to think of what could be cured if it were not for the almighty buck.

Got myself some permethrin today and soaked a set of work cloths and set of grass cutting/fishing cloths.Between that and picaradin for the skin I'll be damned if I ever get another tick or mosquito on me.I won't go through this again hopefully.

You ain't kiddin!

Its insane to think of what could be cured if it were not for the almighty buck.

Perpetual war would be a nice thing to cure.
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Perpetual war would be a nice thing to cure.
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Unfortunately there will never be a cure for the human condition other than extinction.We are our own best enemy.

Disease we all can work on and at least make life better in the here and now.

A good friend has been diagnosed with lyme. He has known something was wrong for a while before docs said he has lyme. He is on meds now but has said he gets a feeling like he has a sunburn on his face and neck also tinitus in ears. Anyone else have these symptoms?

A good friend has been diagnosed with lyme. He has known something was wrong for a while before docs said he has lyme. He is on meds now but has said he gets a feeling like he has a sunburn on his face and neck also tinitus in ears. Anyone else have these symptoms?

I can't say much about the tinitus part as I had before I got lyme.

Has your friend been out in the sun?Doxycycline can make you very sensitive to the sun according to my doc.

I will ask him

I can't say much about the tinitus part as I had before I got lyme.

Has your friend been out in the sun?Doxycycline can make you very sensitive to the sun according to my doc.

Sun and doxycycline only affects some people but the only way you know is to try.
It didn’t affect me
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For tick repellant, research "sawyer permethrin"

It is not meant for skin... it is a clothing treatment that repels
ticks . it stays on clothing even after 5 washes. I spray the hell out of my
pants and shirt that I wear when mowing the lawn or when I am crawling through the woods.

I definitely spray my clothes for garden work. In fact, I’ve spoken to linemen working the field and not only do they use permethrin, but the Grid will wash and treat their work clothes for them - more cost effective than sick leave.
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Does anyone know where to purchase stronger permethrin ?
I only have the pump spray bottle of sawyer .

I want ticks dying at my feet as i walk!

https://store.doyourownpestcontrol.com/permethrin-sfr-insecticide-qt?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI27ffqcnN4gIVCr3ACh0l_gIYEAQYA iABEgKnofD_BwE

I am not responsible if you die. :)

https://store.doyourownpestcontrol.com/permethrin-sfr-insecticide-qt?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI27ffqcnN4gIVCr3ACh0l_gIYEAQYA iABEgKnofD_BwE

I am not responsible if you die. :)

A friend of mine buys that. He soaks cotton balls in it and then stuffs the cotton balls in old paper towel tubes around his 5 acre yard in stone wall holes, under his shed, and any other dry places. Mice take the cotton balls and make nests with the cotton balls which then kill all the ticks that the mice carry. Mice are the true Lyme disease carrier. Deer get a bad wrap.
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A friend of mine buys that. He soaks cotton balls in it and then stuffs the cotton balls in old paper towel tubes around his 5 acre yard in stone wall holes, under his shed, and any other dry places. Mice take the cotton balls and make nests with the cotton balls which then kill all the ticks that the mice carry. Mice are the true Lyme disease carrier. Deer get a bad wrap.
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Chipmunks too.And I know I have them on my property.

Monomoy Island is the best place to get lime that I know of.
Free range chickens are the best tick hunters I know.
Not one tick last year. Thanks chickens

Bart, I thought 3 weeks was a full dose? thats what I got

Sorry, I think that's considered a full dose and that's what I got as well, but I have a friend who has chronic Lyme and she was very adamant about getting 4 weeks. I still don't feel right a year later. I had post Lyme syndrome. Scary stuff.

Hope you're feeling better, Basswipe

A good friend has been diagnosed with lyme. He has known something was wrong for a while before docs said he has lyme. He is on meds now but has said he gets a feeling like he has a sunburn on his face and neck also tinitus in ears. Anyone else have these symptoms?

Yes and yes.

I had them when on the Doxy as any form of prolonged light exposure can really do a number on you. I kept boat fishing while on a full course. Stupid.

I still get those symptoms as, like I stated in my post above, I had/have post Lyme syndrome.

Post Lyme = Lyme.
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Post Lyme = Lyme.
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Not the same. PLD goes away...eventually
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First day back at work,made it 7hrs and was done and I my mean done.All I was doing was brushing final trim-coat...couldn't possibly be any easier for what I do and I was wiped out.

Not the same. PLD goes away...eventually
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Post Lyme is what most Lyme illiterate Dr's call ACTIVE lyme that has not been fully eradicated. It's a BS term since they refuse to accept that some Lyme patients do not respond the way they expect them to.

There is a #^&#^&#^&#^& ton of politics involved in the treatment of Lyme. Depending which side of the argument you are on...

On the extremes:
1. Some say it's Big Pharma money driving the BS guidlines. (plenty of evidence here)

2. Others say it's unscrupulous Dr's taking advantage of patients with expensive unproven treatments for a disease that is no longer active (likely equal amt of evidence here...)

I WILL tell you my wife has been sick for the better part of 15 years with tickborne related illness. She's has more good days then bad now, but for over a decade she was completely dabilitated.

Post Lyme? No F'ng way.

Lyme disease is such a serious and aggressive problem, yet they keeping pushing and pushing the B-S flu shot... the flu goes away on its own in a week...
something about the way they push the flu shot so damn hard makes me suspicious about it and thats why I wont go near it... Do I think it's a trojan horse
for something else they want us to get ? who knows... I dont put anything past them... But Lyme disease seems to be a much more serious issue than a week long flu, yet you hear nothing about it. makes you wonder wtf is going on

I can't say much about the tinitus part as I had before I got lyme.

Has your friend been out in the sun?Doxycycline can make you very sensitive to the sun according to my doc.

Happened to my son when he was on doxy for something else. Top layer of skin peeled off his sunburned hands.

I'm staying out of the sun until I'm off the Doxy.Can't wait as it also makes me very nauseous when I take my morning dose,I'm not a big breakfast person but I have to force myself to eat or I'm going to get sick.

Two things that are still bothering me are the constant tiredness and elevated heart rate.