Well after being sick with old fashioned flu symptoms, severe chills, just feeling terrible, multiple trips to my internist and at least $10,000.00 dollars worth of lab work, CAT Scans and X-rays, I finally broke out with a rash (looks like measles) and after consultation with infectious disease specialists at ECU Medical School, that is the diagnosis. I am now on Doxycycline (tetracycline), the drug of choice and hope to make a full recovery.

I took about $500.00 dollars worth of "high powered" antibiotics to no avail. Guess what 20 tablets of Doxycycline cost on my medicare supplement? $3.12!

Interesting facts: over one-half of cases are from the southeastern United States and NC leads all other states. As a matter of fact, NC and OK have the most reported cases.

Check for ticks everyday. I have probably been out less this spring than in most previous years. I don't have a dog, but as my wife says "It only takes ONE, walking to the mail box".

Keep me in your prayers for a full recovery.

medxam

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Doc Garrett
Dead Man's Doctor

I surely hope you pull through it soon! It don't sound like much fun at ALL!

rags

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RIP Shipmate

I tested positive for Lyme's in 2001. I took the entire battery of antibiotics immediately and have had no adverse, long term effects.

You can beat this medxam, and I'm sure you will....

I'll keep you in my prayers nonetheless....

Hope you are back in the pink very soon.

Drew

Prayers for your full and speedy recovery.

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Misty

hoping and praying for complete healing

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Soli Deo Gloria

A Good Regime of An-to-biatotics such as Tetracycline should do the trick.
Not a problem unless you let it go untreated.

Rule 303

spectracide that yard fast.we dont have hardly any tick problems because I treat the yard good.

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God save the SOUTH

I take tick bites very seriously. Last summer one of my neighbors, age 48, acquired Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever and died within 16 days of the initial tick bite.

Sounds like you caught yours in time for treatment, best wishes on a full recovery.

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i clicked on this, half expecting to see you were from n.c.! and you are!!! ticks are some nasty little beasts. they have to be loving this extreme heat wave, so far this spring.

best wishes for a speedy recovery!!!

Give me a grant, and I'll create a vaccine!

Even though there are ticks in SoCal, they don't seem to be the vector problem here to the extent they are elsewhere. Lyme Disease and RMSF show up in county disease reports, but rarely.

Come to think of it, I haven't seen a tick on an animal in over 20 years. Or on me, or that matter! And I live over a canyon with a lot of the usual wildlife--rabbits, squirrels, coyotes, bobcats and the like.

Wishing you a fast recovery. Sorry it took the docs so long to nail down the culprit and give you the drug that works.

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Not surprised N.C. has a high rate. I was TDY at Ft. Bragg for 10 days and got my first and last 2 ticks ever. You don't want to know WHERE.

Positive thoughts for a swift and full recovery, Medexam.

Here in Indiana, we have had a very wet Spring and the ticks are the worst I have ever seen.

Good luck to you and thanks for the reminder to "check every day."

Prayers sent for quick and complete healing. Several summers ago I spent a lot of time in central and eastern OK in the woods... overall 17 tick bites. When I came down with the sweats and chills, flu like symptoms I self diagnosed and went to the doc. It took me about 10 days to get over it with no effects... take it from me... you'll be fine.