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Originally Posted by LivingOnTheCheap.
On our way up hiking again today, I complained of the bra I wore feeling pain in my armpit.
Oddly it wasn't tight ( a new bra) but kept feeling this pain. On Sunday we went hiking. I looked for ticks but found none.
Showered without my glasses as usual today and started pulling on the pain area. Skin was being stretched then snapped. I thought I was holding a thorn. Instead it was a tick. That's what has been knawing at me making me think it was an inside pain
Now I am worried about Lime Disease.
I kept the tick but wondered since it's been 6 days is there anything i can do to head off lime disease. My Doctor doesn't work weekends. And can the tick be examined for lime disease. It was put in a ziploc bag. The area where I pulled the tick off still hurts. Thanks
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Yes Go immediately to your Dr. they can test your blood ....then, Call and/or Take the tick to the Co. Extension service in your area, see if they can test it.
I got lyme desease back in 2000. I got it working under pine trees....digging in the dirt with moccasin type shoes....not protecting myself. Bats lived in those trees, unbeknownst to me at that time. Deer ticks aren't the only carriers from what I've learned. I had to find a Dr. that would give me the recommended 12 weeks of antibiotic....this was a controversial thing back then, and evidently still is.
I cannot remember the name of the antibiotic....but my daughter had searched the internet and found as much as she could on the disease, .....and it was highly recommended back then. Try searching for articles related to antibiotics to treat lyme disease....I'll try to see if I can find the name and if I do, I'll add it to your thread.
Even with that aggress antibiotic treatment it still took nearly 2 years to feel normal energy....It came back a lil at a time.
My first symtoms were flu like, and my joints stated cracking...when I'd get up, my knee cracked...this went on for almost a week....flu-ish, joint....noise, not really pain yet. I never had the bullseye rash. I went to the Dr. there, I was visiting my then fiancé..I tested positive for lyme.....His Dr. refused to treat me with the 12 weeks of antibiotics....I had to search for a Dr. and I took the info with me....I found a female country Dr. who worked with me....I believe after seeing how many people have had devastating decades of horrible lyme disease, that this Dr. saved my life.
I hope that you do not have it....but I know that the sooner you get tested and start treatment the better the outcome. Prayers for you.
ETA: Lemon grass Eucalyptus by Cutter is my go to skeeter/tick repellant. And, I'm very paranoid so I researched this thoroughly a few years ago. I no longer have the link saved, but a couple of years ago CDC recommended this as the strongest repellent that didn't have deet. So...research it yourselves...but I personally won't use anything else.
https://www.walmart.com/ip/Repel-Lem...10090302008005
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