I think everyone has read my recent post in the Off Season forum about my incident with a tick bite...
FeedThatGame has an excellent thread above and covers my symptoms that I had back in September. This is the God's honest truth, what I went through and experienced:
No recollection of a tick bite.
No sign of a tick bite (sometimes you don't get a rash).
About 2 days later I felt like I got hit by a Mack truck!
Horrible fever of 101.3 and just would NOT break.
Hot, cold, hot, cold, profuse sweating, chills. Repeat...
Doctors findings, blood work, lab results, etc...- White blood count - low.
- Platelets - low.
- Liver enzymes - elevated/very high.
- ...and a few other things I can't remember.
But seriously - the signs above, are vitally important.
WBC, Platelets, and Liver Enzymes. You got Lymes, or you got Anaplasmosis, or you got Ehrlichiosis (What I had), when these main 3 are all whacked out. Anaplasmosis and Ehrlichiosis are the minor variations of Lyme Disease... Full blown Lyme Disease will
{expletive} you up for months and months, if not an entire year!
Doxycycline - a major antibiotic that works. Everybody and their brother has taken Doxy. It'll stop it, but it won't kill it.
Zithromax (aka Z-Pack) - another major, powerful, antibiotic that works really well. This stuff kills ANYTHING you got! It killed the Ehrlichiosis and put me back on my feet about 2 weeks later. It also killed a slight sinus headache/infection at the same time!