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moonrockmushy
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Lyme disease reinfection & should I go to urgent care?
#21665520 - 05/11/15 02:11 PM (9 years, 9 days ago) |
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So I'm pretty sure I have Lyme disease again. I got bit like 2 weeks ago, then last weekend I got the weird sickness I tend to get, then yesterday I noticed a bullseye rash on my hand. I don't even know if it's affecting me or not anymore. I got my appetite back, but sometimes I feel pretty weird. I'm not sure and except when I was sick a couple days last week I have been exercising every day (and being careful as fuck not to get bit again!).
I called my doctor and they said they couldn't get me in until Saturday. I have an appointment on Tuesday (next week) to renew a prescription that I will have to go to either way, so I told them I would just wait and maybe go to urgent care before then. Honestly I'm kinda pissed that my doctor couldn't just see me tomorrow, look at the bit and rash and write me a course of a/b real quick. I think I'm gonna change my PCP soon.
I know most people here probably don't know, but maybe someone is in a medical field or has some experience with this, is waiting a week going to make the Lyme much harder to treat? Would it be foolish to wait? Before when I wasn't sure what the rash was I would wait weeks to months before getting treated (this is my fourth Lyme infection to my knowledge), and I never really suffered from it, but now I am kinda freaking out. My right side feels slightly sore, and I just always kinda have a creepy-crawly anxiety feeling.
This is a deer tick:

Look the fuck out, especially if Lyme (or other tick-borne diseases) is common in your area they are dirty fuckers. They are out. Don't get bit.
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Arctic W. Fox

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Re: Lyme disease reinfection & should I go to urgent care? [Re: moonrockmushy]
#21665537 - 05/11/15 02:15 PM (9 years, 9 days ago) |
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Daily garlic (fresh or pill) will keep these pests away.
If you have an animal that gets them, feed that animal buttered garlic bread and watch the ticks just fall off.
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moonrockmushy
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Re: Lyme disease reinfection & should I go to urgent care? [Re: Arctic W. Fox]
#21665651 - 05/11/15 02:47 PM (9 years, 9 days ago) |
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Thanks, I'll give that a try but I don't think it will help kill the lyme bacteria. Usually I get the antibiotics and the rash slowly disappears over a week or two.
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Re: Lyme disease reinfection & should I go to urgent care? [Re: moonrockmushy]
#21666648 - 05/11/15 06:26 PM (9 years, 8 days ago) |
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And just to share some semi-random information, I was reading reports last year that think Multiple Sclerosis may be connected to a previous tick bite, and that the medication for Lyme disease may be effective for treating MS.
Just some safety you may want to bounce off to your physician.
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moonrockmushy
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Re: Lyme disease reinfection & should I go to urgent care? [Re: Arctic W. Fox]
#21667013 - 05/11/15 07:47 PM (9 years, 8 days ago) |
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well the medication for Lyme disease is antibiotics, doxycycline and I think a few others if that is contraindicated or unavailable. MS is an autoimmune disease that can occur because of genetic predisposition as well as infections (viruses though from what I can find, where Lyme is a type of bacteria), so I don't see how antibiotics would help.
There are some of similarities, they both end in the immune system attacking itself through inflammation. Maybe you are talking about late stage symptom treatment, which I'm not that familiar with.
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