Lyme Disease
 

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.

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

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

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 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've been thinking about that.I've had reactions to deet so I use a highly concentrated picaridin spray.Time to get some permethrin.

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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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.

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.

lyme
 

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.

lyme
 

I will ask him

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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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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