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I think i might have lyme

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IT started off my back was sore and it was warm to the touch i thought spider maybe and then i looked in the mirror and saw something like the bullseye but im not sure. Should i go see the Doctor or not i probaly will though anyway.
 
Best of luck to you Bob! As wintermute stated, early detection is essential with Lyme Disease. Perhaps it's something less sinister, like ringworm, or a spider bite. -Matt-
 
I had something similar to that after hurricane charley, I assumed it was just a really bad pimple or mosquito bite at first. Turned into a necrotic staph infection with abscess within 3 days that covered a hand sized area of my left shoulder. First thing the doc asked when he saw it was "that looks like a shotgun wound". They weren't sure of the exact cause, could have been a spider bite, ingrown hair, infection from a small scratch. After the first day it was just really large and swollen, pretty sure if I had gone to the doc then they may have been able to just give me some anti-biotic or drain the abscess and saved me the 2500 dollar bill to operate on the wound. So yes, go now, whatever it is it's easier (and cheaper) to fix now rather than later.
 
yoda4561 said:
I had something similar to that after hurricane charley, I assumed it was just a really bad pimple or mosquito bite at first. Turned into a necrotic staph infection with abscess within 3 days that covered a hand sized area of my left shoulder. First thing the doc asked when he saw it was "that looks like a shotgun wound". They weren't sure of the exact cause, could have been a spider bite, ingrown hair, infection from a small scratch. After the first day it was just really large and swollen, pretty sure if I had gone to the doc then they may have been able to just give me some anti-biotic or drain the abscess and saved me the 2500 dollar bill to operate on the wound. So yes, go now, whatever it is it's easier (and cheaper) to fix now rather than later.
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Was it MRSA?
 
All I recall was the doc getting the lab results in and saying "well it's a benign staph infection not malignant". I don't remember him saying it was mrsa but I looked it up just now and it sounds about right. Mine really did look like a mosquito bite at first, then had a bullseye-like appearance which turned into what it did a couple days later. I've had other minor bites and stuff that started off the same way but they always went away after a few days so I didn't think to go to the doctor's right away. After the hurricane we were without power for a few days, and the running water wasn't supposed to be safe to drink but okay to shower with. I had been working in a room that had a broken window and soaked with rain and debris so there was probably all sorts of nasty bugs floating around.

Edit: okay after reading a bit more about mrsa I don't think that was it. They did put me on an IV drip for an hour with antibiotics but I think the doc mentioned it was a good thing that it wasn't a "more dangerous strain of staph".
 
I am gonna reiterate what was said........

IF YOU HAVE EVEN THE SLIGHTEST CONCERN ABOUT ANY BITE OR SORE GO TO THE DOCTOR ASAP!!!!!
 
Yep get to the Dr my dad was on deaths door turned out he had West Nile He also had some tick bite but haven’t got the results back yet there are 3 different types of tick transmitted disease now he is out of the hospital & dowing better now .
 
go to the doctor immediately - like now. go to the emergency room if you have to. demand antibiotics.

lyme is a serious disease. do not wait until tomorrow to get treatment. the sooner you get antibiotics into your bloodstream the better chance you have of killing it before it sets up in the anaerobic parts of your body where it's hard to root out.

"The organism that causes Lyme disease is a bacterium, Borrelia burgdorferi, which was cultured from the midgut of Ixodes ticks in the mid-1980s. It is shaped like a wave or helix and belongs to a whole class of bacteria that can be identified by this distinctive shape, the spirochetes, which include some other nasty human pathogens that can cause syphilis, tick-borne relapsing fever, dysentery, and leptospirosis."
 
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