Lyme disease....
 

Ain't no joke.
Just got diagnosed FOR THE 3rd time in my life. WTF ?!?

I have a huge bullseye on my calf. If anyone wants to see it for educational purposes I can post a picture of it when it was really bad and what it looks like after a couple weeks.

If you see the bull's eye, you got it early - that's the good news. I just pulled off a deer tick last night, one which had just begun to dig in. I likely got it up while picking berries earlier in the day. I'll monitor the area and take careful note of how I feel.

Yes please post picks

i got bitten by a tick 2 weeks ago... for 4 days I was achy, fever, exhausted, sweaty chills... got tested, and despite having all symptoms came back negative. only felt better after starting doxycyclene . I have to get tested again since I may not have built up any antibodies when tested, so i might be positive.

Just took the last pill last night... side effect is nasty sunburn, even with layers and layers of 50 spf sunblock. tick bites are no joke.

Please show the tick bite if you can nebe.

get well.

OK heres some pics...

First pic is about 4 days after i though something was wrong.. No bullseye, just angry. I thought it was a staff infection from poison ivy, because i had poison ivy on my ankle at the time.

2nd pic is showing a slight bullseye. I took the picture because i wanted to track this.. i thought the bullseye would become more pronounced. It did not and it just faded to a pink color..

3rd picture is my leg today at the DR's office... the pink had spread a lot and i figured it wasn't going away and only getting worse.

The DR said i did the right thing by waiting a while as people will come in immediately after being a tick bite and want antibiotics.

Hope this helps someone in the future.....

3rd pic wouldn't post for some reason, so i just took another.

Block Is tick or local Nebe?

Nasty looking infection . . . I bet the affected area was hot and firm to touch. Been there. Besides the sun sensitivity doxycyclene makes me miserably nauseous.

That sucks
damn those little buggers
Lymes is nothing to take lightly

I'm 98 % sure it was a block island tick
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Same for me too.

you have really hairy legs :shocked: maybe that helps those little fockers latch on to you(?)

so did you remove a tick from that spot NEBE?
it takes either 36 hours or 3 days for the tick to
infect you i just recently read in mother Earth news.

the spot you show looks exactly like a spider bite i got
on my thigh / buttocks region and it was a real fast mover
after sitting in a chase lounge in a grassy area.

i never saw a tick or removed a tick so i decided it must
have been a spider bite.

if i were you............. i would cleanse your liver with lemonade
begin taking echinacea herb with golden seal combo (great stuff )
1000 mg of vitamin C twice a day... green tea immune system booster.
heal up fast there Nebe...

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i never saw a tick or removed a tick so i decided it must
have been a spider bite.
.[/QUOTE]

I have never found anyone who can absolutely verify a bite from a spider. From some looking into it, confirmed spider bites are incredibly rare. Tick nymphs are so small that they are incredibly easy to miss prior to getting knocked off, scratched off, our falling off engorged.
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nymphs dont carry the disease
i think the article said
but don't quote me on that- lol

yep wicked small heres 3 . . .

just read in a tech journal
how scientists have successfully modified our T-cells
to kick some serious (disease) ass

yup, that's what I thought until I got Lyme disease from one

I never saw a tick, so it had to have bit me and then stayed on me for a while and fallen off. Nymphs can carry Lyme if they have been in contact with a mouse or a deer that had Lyme. Animals are the host. The tick is the carrier.
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My dog just tested positive for Lyme yesterday. He gets 120 doxycycline pills. I get 14. Lol
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I'm familiar with a situation where a RI woman died from Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, an evident failure on the part of a local medical group. Her dog, however, was properly diagnosed with the same infection and cured by a veterinarian.

I had lyme last year from a tick I never saw, but the timeline
correlated with a few days I fished on Block.

I fished block then two weeks later I was on block again. Just as I
arrived on Block for the second session.... I developed flu like
symptoms, extreme energy loss, aches...etc....

Then after 4 days of what I thought was a stomach virus....I had a
reaction was similar to your calf but on my foot in between my big
toe and middle toe. It was not a bullseye but an angry rash. I just
assumed it was something related to a low immune system and some
funk from marching around in my neoprene petri dish.

On my way home my foot swelled up like a balloon. I went straight
to the doctor, who looked at it once and diagnosed it as lyme.

What was interesting....I didn't have any classic bulls eyes until the
day after I took the anitbotics. It was like a magic trick, I woke up
the next morning covered with bulls eyes. So many, I looked like a
dalmatian.

After tests confirmed they stated that I was two weeks into the
infection. This is where I suspect, that I picked it up in Block two
weeks earlier.

Considering this it sort of had me wondering how the disease spread
out there..rats on a ship....swimming deer....human or dog carriers.

It also has me thinking about my general drop in hygiene when I
binge fish. Lets face it....most of us walk the fringe of being wild
animals when we get out there. The tick could have been in my
wetsuit, waders, or booties. Those thing never really see any
conditions that would kill ticks. Maybe some tick shampoo will need
to get mixed into the wetsuit soak....or I need to go hippy and
envelope myself in a dense musk of some teatree Patchouli to repel
those hideous parasites.

you could take two of those fine mesh
white garlic clove bags and fill it
with strong smelling cedar wood chips.
then put them in your waders.

Mrs nebe made an amazing bug repellant from 9 different essential oils that are suspended in witch hazel. It works just as good as off spray and it smells like a hippy just walked by.
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Good luck Eben. Scary stuff.

You guys should put that into production in a small squeeze bottle with
two chambers...One with a bunker gel and the other with opium den
sauce.

Hahaha!!!!
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Apparently, I didn't monitor the tick bite alluded to in an earlier post carefully enough. Neither the tendonitis in my left elbow, the "summer cold" accompanied by a low-grade fever, the pain in my right knee, nor the jaw pain I've been experiencing for the last week and a half has been coincidental. The results are in and just as I suspected as of late, I have Lyme Disease.

Lyme disease is seriously un cool. Sorry to hear this #^&#^&#^&#^&. :(
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very sorry to hear that news #^&#^&#^&#^&
i have threads at S-B on how to ramp up your immune system
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