I was reinfected a couple of weeks ago, this time I saw the red ring around the bite. I am on antibiotics anyways, so I haven't done anything different. I often wonder how many times I have been reinfected and didn't know it. Jan
Hi Janemae..
I hear ya... I've retested positive a few times after long periods of testing lymeless. I and my doctor am never sure if it is a new bite or it is the chronic lyme reactivating itself..
Peace,
Aceofcups ( Charlie )
I often wonder the same thing about being reinfected and not knowing it. So sad to hear ya got it again.
So sorry to hear the ticks found ya again, Charlie!! I hope the doxy works for you and you don't have any problems.
I seem to be a magnet for all types of insects. If there's a spider or mosquito that wants to take a bite, they'll find me too.
*hugs*
Becky
Your not the only one! I was bitten again in 2004. I was sure it was a tick in the calve of my leg. I had to travel 6 hours (one way) to see my Lyme doctor. She told me there was NO tick in my leg. However, it kept getting red and irritated and seven months later, it festered. I was taking a hot bath and noticed it was extremely red and swollen. Not the typical bulls eye. I heated the end of a needle and cleaned the area with rubbing alcohol. I opened the top and squeezed as hard as I could. Guess What?? There was a tick in my leg. Seven months. I saved it and called an entomologist who was located about a half hour from me. He put it under his scope and it was a female deer tick. The sad thing was, I have Chronic Neurological Lyme and I was told if I got bit again by an infected tick and was not on a maitainance dosr of antibiotics, I could end up in a wheelchair.
I went three and a half years undiagnosed from my first bite and by the time I got help, I was bed ridden. My husband took me to PA to see a Lyme Specialist. He saved my life. Doctors who say, you can not die from a tick bite are out of their minds. My blood was so thick, they could hardly draw it through a needle. What little bit they did get would metastasize in the tube and they were unable to test it. My Lyme doctor said it was a miracle that I had not had a heart attack or a stroke. I have never, ever been so sick in all of my life. I finally did get diagnosed with Lyme, Babesiosis, Ehrlichiosis and Bartenella. Who knows what other strains these ticks are carrying that they do not even know about yet. I got off track..sorry, it happens all of the time...
When I was bitten the second time in 2004, I called the doctor who told me that it was NOT a tick in my leg. The secretary took my message and the doctor never returned my call. There was no way I could bring a neglect suit against her, because.....listen to this one...Because I already have several times.
It makes me irate to hear a doctor who knows very little about the disease, appear on the news and report to the public "their" knowledge of the disease", which is zero! For example, Just by telling people they will display a bulls eye is a farce! So, people get sick, and if they don't get a bulls eye, they think they are fine. Not always true and then, they do not get diagnosed in time. That one little misconception ruins lives!
It was suppose to be "because I already had Lyme disease. So it could not be proven that I did not transmit the disease to the tick!!
