Well atomic ed, I didn't want to scare him to death, you got lucky with a good doctor , i went to 4 doctors before he had enough sense to check for for tick diseease's, it was a couple of years and i ended up completely debilated, even after the 6 mos of i/v antibiotic I still feel like I have been beaten with a stick most days, the good news is the blurred vision went away, and so did the slurred speach.This stuff is real ,but they act like your a nut if they dont see the rash or can verify the fever, i didnt want to make him paranoid , because the doctors will dismiss your symptoms. If you have sudden arthritis onset you should be checked !!
most ticks are harmless, however some carry rocky mountain fever or lyme disease, you will know in a month if you have either,rocky fever gives a fever so bad you hallucinate, lyme your joints hurt so bad you think you cant walk, if there is no rash i would not worry, always wear tick and bug spray,mosquitos are deadly now too,good luck
amen!Your deal sounds very similar to mine!!!Blows when most doc's dont even beleive in it and tell you nothing is wrong!!Well atomic ed, I didn't want to scare him to death, you got lucky with a good doctor , i went to 4 doctors before he had enough sense to check for for tick diseease's, it was a couple of years and i ended up completely debilated, even after the 6 mos of i/v antibiotic I still feel like I have been beaten with a stick most days, the good news is the blurred vision went away, and so did the slurred speach.This stuff is real ,but they act like your a nut if they dont see the rash or can verify the fever, i didnt want to make him paranoid , because the doctors will dismiss your symptoms. If you have sudden arthritis onset you should be checked !!
Hi, sorry to hear about the tick bite. I don't want to scare you or anything but..... Last year around this very time I was bitten by a tick in my own yard. Never saw one before nor had one on me. At the time I never knew I was bitten because sometimes ticks will bite you and then jump off and not stick around. This must have been what happened to me because I never could find one on me but I know I was bitten because unfortunately I became deathly sick from it. I did not know at the time but the tick that bit me had given me Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever. Initially I started to feel as if I was coming down with a cold or something. Same type of symptoms you usually get but then out of nowhere I started getting this terrible rash all over me. It was spreading by the hour all over my body and itchy like murder and hurt like fire ants at the same time. I started to worry about it and at the time chalked it up to being some kind of virus and was just waiting it to run its course.
However each day became harder and harder to tolerate the rash and by then I was feeling like I had zero energy to even get up or walk around at all. I am disabled and have had severe arthritis since I was 18 years old and now in my 40's, so alot of the aching joints and such are normal for me everyday anyway, but this was like I had never felt before. So I started researching my symptoms on the net and initially thought it might be Rocky Mountain Fever, but then read most people die fairly quickly from it without quick treatment of anti-biotics, Something like the first few days. By that time it had been a few weeks of me having it, so I figured it couldn't be that or I would be dead already. Well by the 4th week of this insanity, I decided to see a DR. which I told him what I had ruled out and that I was stumped as to what it could be. He said he wanted to test my blood for Lyme disease and Rocky Mountain anyway just to be sure.
Well a few days after they took my blood, the local pharmacy I go to calls me out of nowhere and says I must come there immediately and pick up this medicine my Dr; had called in right away and said I needed to start taking it right away. I started to freak out because I never heard back from the Dr. yet on my tests. Anyhow I ran down to the drug store and started taking the medicine right there in the parking lot. When I asked the pharmacist what it was for, he said it was for the Plague and a few other serious things which scared me even further but mentioned that my doctor didn't tell them my diagnosis just what medicine to give me.
Well that afternoon my Dr. office calls me and starts asking me how I am doing and if I am ok. The nurse on the phone sounded really concerned and asked me if I was still able to walk and stuff. I told her I was still the same. Well she then told me that my tests came back positive for Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever and that they were not sure why I had somehow made it through it without any treatment till now. They then gave me medicine for the next 2 months and a couple more blood tests and a visit to the infectious disease specialist who was also amazed I recovered after no treatment. I believe it was God who had saved me, especially when I read all the stories of what can happen. I was extremely lucky but, once you have this nasty thing, it takes a very very long time to recover. It has been a year now since I had it and I still do not have all my energy back. And I didn't have alot before that because of my disability.
Anyway, I didn't want to scare you but maybe warn you if you start getting a rash and feeling like your getting the flu, don't hesitate to go to the Dr. and have them test you for these things. It could kill you and quickly, if you are infected from that tick bite. Hopefully it was not an infected one. Always better safe than sorry and don't listen to people that say the tick has to be butting you for a certain length of time, Rocky Mountain is a bacteria and the second it bites you it transmits it, even if it never stays on you, like in my case.
Wishing you the best of luck that your bite was nothing to worry about but felt I needed to warn you in case you start getting symptoms.
..... So far so good see the Dr. this week see if he can do something,,,,, But the bite looks fine ..Hey, i just wanted to check with you and find out how you were doing? Hope all is well.
WOW, It looks like many here have had some serious problems with ticks! Here in Texas they are appetizers for the fire ants.
..... So far so good see the Dr. this week see if he can do something,,,,, But the bite looks fine ..