Lyme Disease
#31
Member
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Georgia
Posts: 83
I developed HBP from LymeD. Please everyone, insist your doctor test you and if he doesn't get another doctor. Unfortunately this tick bite can cause problems in any part of your body and organs. More reseach is desperately needed but too many doctors do not take it serious enough. Good luck to you all.
#34
Junior Member
Join Date: Jun 2011
Location: El Paso, TX
Posts: 142
you might want to ask your doctor to check you for erlichea(spelled as it sounds as I'm terrible at spelling) and rocky mountain spotted fever. both are carried by ticks and some ticks carry all 3. hope you recover quickly and without too many problems. :)
#36
Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: PA
Posts: 678
If you even think you've been bitten by a tick get to the doc or hospital/ER ASAP & insist they test & treat you. If they refuse go to a different doc and/or ER. If left go you can & will get Lyme disease. This is nothing to mess with as it can cause permenant nerve damage, organ damage, etc. You don't always get the rash or bulls eye either. Docs just don't take this serious enough.
#38
Super Member
Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: new hampshire
Posts: 1,550
Glad you were tested and not made to suffer and suffer without a diagnosis. That happened to a friend of ours. After 6 years of treatment. IVs every day for over a year...lost his job, almost lost his wife and then 3year old twinn girls. They never saw him as a well dad. He searched and found specialists in Lyme . He travelled every week to CT, Ins did not pay for the treatment he got there. thankfully he is halfway there.
So please check for those ticks...no matter what kind they are.
check in kids socks and shoes ours too.
So please check for those ticks...no matter what kind they are.
check in kids socks and shoes ours too.
#39
I am so sorry that you were attacked by a deer tick. That stinks. For me, I went to the hair dresser on Thursday and she found a (regular) tick in my hair. Yuk!!! I try to always wear a hat but didn't that week. So you are absolutely right. Be careful especially with children.
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