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Old 11-27-2006 | 05:40 PM
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WBowhunt
 
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Default RE: ticks,ticks,ticks,what do you do? lyme disease????

Unfortunately I have had it, Last summer I started to feel really run down, but played it off to working to much and then acting like a teenager while playing with my kids, but then I noticed a small red rash on the back of my thigh. My wife finally convinced me to go see the Doc and after listening to my symptoms and then seeing the now rather large red rash on my leg. He immediately gave me a prescription of these giant horse pills I had to take for 10 days. He told me that it was good that I came in and that if caught early it is easy to get a hold of, but if you wait to long and it really gets a hold, it can be years of medications.
But on the good side, the rash went away and I started feeling better. But to be honest, I still don't feel like I am back to 100%. Maybe it is just a mental thing, but I seem to feel run down all the time and it has been a year, then again I do have two jobs and two small children, so it could have nothing to do with the lyme's from last year.
I never found a tick on my thigh, but the Doc said that it was most likely a deer tick and not one of the run of the mill wood ticks which is what is most commonly seen on our clothes. The deer ticks are tiny. about the size of a pin head. My only suggestion is if you find a tick on your skin, they say to pull it off and place it in a zip lock bag. write the date and location you found it on your body right on the bag and keep it for about a month. If during that time, you find a bullseye shaped rash or start having flu like symptoms or feel really whiped out all the time. Take the bag and yourself to the Doc and have them check it out.
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