This is very interesting article I found, Enjoy.
http://jacksonville.com/lifestyles/health_and_fitness/2009-05-19/story/unf_professor_works_to_unlock_lyme_diseases_mysteries
50% of Lizards in South Carolina have Lyme Disease? Do this mean 50% of the population in the US has Lyme Disease or could have Lyme Disease? I think so.
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Perry, Thanks for sharing. I have two questions.
ReplyDeleteHere's background. I went to the mountains, May 12-17. I found two ticks attached May 18 and 20, one on either side of my torso, and removed them without instruction. By May 22, I had a fever, etc., and got on Doxycycline, a two week regime. That took the fever away in about two days, and the headache and joint aches have been receding. I do think I was bitten in 1979, a bull's eye rash on my index finger which the doctor refused to consider as a cause of my fever at that time. Because of long-term impairment from that time with no clue as to cause, I have learned to listen to my body and have gotten much stronger over the last five years. I nearly despair at the prospect of losing that gain. So I'm working everything I know this time around.
Two questions:
1) Is a two-week regime of Doxy usually enough? I know you can't tell for someone else, but do you have any comments? I'm nearly finished with the round. I'm depressed and paranoid so I hate to go longer on the medication, yet, is it your opinion that I should? And if so, what terminology or request would cause the doctor be open to a another prescription?
2) One bite site had the usual bull's eye rash. I scratched the head off the site several times before I decided what it was, have since applied aloe vera and not scratched it. The other site produced only a cyst at first, so the doctor hardly looked at it. But a few days after starting the Doxy, this site began itching like crazy and a small bull's eye rash has developed. This one I refuse to scratch the cap off and continue to apply aloe straight from the inside of the fresh leaf. The question is: Is it better to scratch the head off so the poison can escape and the aloe enter? or is this little blistery head the way the body tries to isolate the infection and thus I should try to let the body do its thing with as little irritation as possible?
Your opinion is valued. Thank you.