Lyme disease left untreated

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dipbait

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Im bringing this up because I value the opinions and knowledge of the people on this forum. About twenty years ago a tick attached itself to my knee. A clasic red bullseye appeared at the bite location.I did not go to a MD. I had no symptoms and was in good health. For the past ten years I have gradually been getting easily fatigued , intolerant to heat and sweat profusely.I can hike in cool weather but once temps hit the 80s, i can only go a short time. I had a lot of test done last year because something is wrong. I know it. But nothing was found. I had forgotten about that tick bite years ago and did not bring it up to the doctor.

I know some of you guys have contacted lyme disease . Bushman for one. Does it sometimes take years for symptoms to develop? Does it sound like I may have chronic Lyme disease?

I will bring this up to the doc. next time I visit.
 
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Twenty years ago I didn't get as fatigued and wasn't as troubled by heat as I am now, and that's not Lyme, that's age. :)

But bring it up with the doctor. It can lie dormant for a long time, it can be a big problem, there are treatments.
 
I think its more than age.Im only 52. Last week I was watching an overwieght woman of about 60 mow some grass. I had sweat pouring off me just standing there and she wasnt sweating at all.
 
dipbait said:
I think its more than age.Im only 52. Last week I was watching an overwieght woman of about 60 mow some grass. I had sweat pouring off me just standing there and she wasnt sweating at all.
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Was probably a self-propelled mower ;)
 
dipbait said:
I know some of you guys have contacted lyme disease . Bushman for one. Does it sometimes take years for symptoms to develop? Does it sound like I may have chronic Lyme disease? .
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Dipbait, as I understand, and I have been doing a lot of reading on the subject :( it can lie dormant for a long time, doesn't mean it will, of course.


dipbait said:
I will bring this up to the doc. next time I visit.
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Do not screw around - get to the doctor ASAP - the sooner you get it looked after, the better off you'll be. In the U.S. they do the Western Blot test which is far more accurate than the test they do up here (ELISA). Lyme can kill you. In fact, a CEO of a well known winery up here (Magnotta Wines) died from Lyme, a few years back. You can read about it in the following link.

Here's a website with a ton of information. It's a Canadian website, but ticks don't need passports :(

Good luck, bro.

Doc
 
I've often wondered if I might have gotten it.
Where I used to backpack there were many times when I was walking through the trees and it just started raining ticks on me.
I've pulled hundreds of ticks off of me, easily.

I had a boss in Colorado that used to jog to work every day.
One day his lung collapsed and he went through months of doctors poking and prodding him to find out what his other issues were about.
Turns out he had lyme disease and didn't know it.
It caused all kinds of problems.
 
I am 24 and feel the same way you do now man!!!

Bring it up to the doctor and check yourself just in case...

EDIT: Actually I am 26... i don't know why i said 24 :D
 
That may be true. I did have the classic red bullseye rash at the site of the bite.From what Ive been reading thats the telltale sign. Im not a hypochrondiac and Im not just sweating a little. Ive had a lot of blood test done last year for thyroid problems and other things.Im in shape 6'2 and two hundred lbs. Something is wrong. I know that.
 
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even today many doctors miss the lymes . 2 yrs. back a teenager was misdianosed & developed severe problems from lymes. get to a good doc if lymes gets into the spinal column you can have major problems. there is another one out there carried only by ticks, it's called erichnosis caffensis or something like that. i was one of the 1st tex. guys to get it about 20 yrs. back & it nearly killed me . went from 175 to 145 lbs real quick & the texas health dept called me 5 months later after extensive tests in atlanta showed what it was. since then there have been quite a few fatalities. nurses & most docs did'nt know what i was talking about when it was mentioned.
 
Do NOT wait around on this! Bring this up to the doctor, now! Look for a specialist for testing, if your regular doctor is hesitant. Research on line.

One of my partners died in his late 40's. They found lyme, but too late.
 
dipbait....dont wait man. Get to a Doc.

It can lay dormant. If there is any chance you may have lyme, go get checked brother. Its the logical, and safe thing to do. Elimination of all possabilities before you just chalk it up to aging.

I hope you get to the bottom of this. In all my years of experiance in the medical field, when someone truely, and admitidly KNOWS something is wrong, usually there is..

Be well brother.
 
I had the bulleye's rash. I went to the DR the day after I found it. I never really got sick but my knees and leg muscles ached for three months. I was on antibiotics for four months and was asked to join a study. I did not. My neighbor went untreated for years and last summer he kept getting tired and had odd joint aches like I did so he went to the Dr and he he was on IV antibiotics for at least 3 months. He had a picc line. He feels better now but he was in ruff shape for a while. Lyme is an odd disease.
 
Forget waiting till next time you visit the doc.
DO IT NOW.

Granted, some of your symptoms can be attributed to aging as pointed out by Esav, however, there's no mistaking the symptoms as a whole and the bulls-eye around the tick bite seals the deal.
Make a Dr. appointment ASAP to get treatment started, please.
 
I was in Muskoka a few weeks back and had a bite on my side with dried blood right by it.
I wasn't sure about what had bit me but I had heard and read about Lyme disease, so I went to a doctor one week later, just to be sure.
Now I'm on an antibiotic called Doxycycline, actually just finished my dosage. So, I have to go back to the doc for another blood test. yay:grumpy:

Sidenote...Stay out of the sun while on these meds, makes you more prone to getting sun burnt.


Get it checked out. You'll feel better.
 
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I was in Muskoka a few weeks back and had a bite on my side with dried blood right by it.
I wasn't sure about what had bit me but I had heard and read about Lyme disease, so I went to a doctor one week later, just to be sure.
Now I'm on an antibiotic called Doxycycline, actually just finished my dosage. So, I have to go back to the doc for another blood test. yay:grumpy:

Sidenote...Stay out of the sun while on these meds, makes you more prone to getting sun burnt.


Get it checked out. You'll feel better.
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Since you were in Muskoka, I'm going to assume you're a fellow Canuck. If so, be advised our Lyme tests (ELISA) are not very accurate. Check out the website in my previous post in this thread.

Doc
 
You don't play with Lyme. Go see a specialist. Lyme gets misdiagnosed a lot for Fibromyalgia, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Rheumatoid Arthritis, and other diseases. The current test for Lyme aren't very reliable. False positives and false negatives are common. That's why the CDC recommends clinical diagnosis (diagnosis based on symptoms and medical history). There is a lot of misinformation about Lyme, even in the medical community, mostly because many doctors have never seen it. So if you can, go see a Lyme, Infectious diseases, or Internal Medicine specialist. What you are describing can be simply age, but it may not be. To be sure you need to see the doctor ASAP.

And yes, symptoms can take a while to show, some times years. I got exposed probably in '98 or '99, we are not sure since I never developed the "bulls Eye" rash. What we are now sure is that some symptoms (temporary problems concentrating and mild fatigue) started in 2001 but at the time we didn't realized it was Lyme and the doctors misdiagnosed it. Severe symptoms started in 2007. At my worse I was bedridden, had severe fatigue, sleep disorders, couldn't think clearly nor express myself coherently, lost my short term memory and didn't have access to a lot of information in long term memory (for example, I couldn't remember most of the information learned in my college and graduate education), had involuntary muscle movements, sensory information confusion (like tasting green, or feeling bugs walking over you), light sensitivity, joint and muscle pain, and irregular heart palpitations. Treatment is very effective, but can be expensive and takes time to work (especially if you have gone untreated for a long time) and if you wait too long, some symptoms can become permanent.
 
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