Lyme disease, low BP, dehydration

[Swimmer]

One docter at my primary's office who treated me was very curious about a possible parasite that can be fairly common from the canal on down the cape. The wife was so stressed out this morning she was getting sympathy pains, so I got my ass up and went down stairs. Dave where do you think you were bitten by the tick? On the canal or somewhere else?

I actually took my temp. a few minutes ago and it was below 100. Good news. My pee is clearing up, so the doxy must start working pretty fast.

This may have started quite sometime ago and its just rearing its ugly friggin head. I was pissing blood for nine days and it stopped. Got to the doctor then for a checkup and basically found nothing in the blood test to indicate an infection, I receive appropriate folow-up referrals with Urologist, but at about the same time my neck started aching(which I thought was from getting into the tacoma as opposed to the ranger, and I never said anything. I thought I strained the muscles then and just took some asp. occassionally to help out. But that may infer an infection of sorts. So BP meds were indicated during that time. My primary was away, but the covering physician gave me fluid pill to start with. This may have help my dehydration get as bad as it did during the hot weather.

So anyway I go to the CDC site today and found the three parasites that that ER doctor ordered tests, plus the Lyme disease test, for and I find on that fits the bill for all of my symtoms. And the prior bleeding is part of the parasitic diseases presentation. The doxycycline seems to be beating the problem down at least for now, which may make my assumption wrong. The parasite I think I have says it has to be treated with something else.