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I am worried I have caught Lyme Disease

  • 30-09-2020 10:43pm
    #1
    Nqp15hhu
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,254 ✭✭✭


    I am concerned that I have got Lyme Disease.

    I regularly hike, about 3-4 days a week. The route transverses a forest and shrubs. I haven't hiked in two days, but last night I had a severe intense itch that felt like hives, it would not subside.

    I got showered earlier today and noticed that I had a bullseye shaped hive like spot. I thought of Lyme disease straight away and went to the GP. I have been given a prescription of 3 weeks of Doxycycline but i'm worried this is not enough.

    When I came home, I found a tick in my bed. So, this was definitely a tick bite.

    I have read up on this and do not have any symptoms yet. Aside from an itchy leg.

    What can I do about this? Should I be concerned? Will the medication get rid of the Lyme Disease? I am young and don't want to suffer with ill health.


Comments

  • #2
    Water John
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,808 ✭✭✭✭Water John


    Did the doc tell you what it might be? Check out cellulitis, I've got it from a fly bite.


  • #3
    Day Lewin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,694 ✭✭✭Day Lewin


    Can't say for sure but cellulitis is a real possibility. If it is, the antibiotics will fix it.


  • #4
    Nqp15hhu
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,254 ✭✭✭Nqp15hhu


    Water John wrote: »
    Did the doc tell you what it might be? Check out cellulitis, I've got it from a fly bite.

    The doctor suggested that it was erythema migrans.


  • #5
    Graces7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    I have had tick bites; they itch like crazy.

    And be assured that not all ticks carry Lyme.


  • #6
    iwillhtfu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,373 ✭✭✭iwillhtfu


    That doesn't look like a bullseye type rash more of a reaction to the bite. How did you manage to miss a tick there? They usually hang on for a couple of days.

    The chances of you catching lymes is quite low but take the prescription and hopefully you'll be grand. An imprtnant lesson learned about hiking in long grass etc and checking yourself over afterwards.


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  • #7
    Nqp15hhu
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,254 ✭✭✭Nqp15hhu


    Well here’s another photo from today for clarification. To me it looks like there is a light ring around the infection site.


  • #8
    Nqp15hhu
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,254 ✭✭✭Nqp15hhu


    Graces7 wrote: »
    I have had tick bites; they itch like crazy.

    And be assured that not all ticks carry Lyme.

    Well how do I know if it is Lyme or not?


  • #9
    danoriordan1402
    Registered Users Posts: 701 ✭✭✭danoriordan1402


    Would it be a horsefly bite - had one of them few weeks back and it looked similar, not sure if they are still about now however


  • #10
    antix80
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,419 ✭✭✭antix80


    Nqp15hhu wrote: »
    I got showered earlier today and noticed that I had a bullseye shaped hive like spot. I thought of Lyme disease straight away and went to the GP. I have been given a prescription of 3 weeks of Doxycycline but i'm worried this is not enough.

    You shouldn't worry. If the tick carried lyme disease the antibiotic will sort it out.


  • #11
    Duke of Url
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,662 ✭✭✭Duke of Url


    Nqp15hhu wrote: »
    Well how do I know if it is Lyme or not?

    Looks like a Tick bite alright

    Could also be a horse Fly bite


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  • #12
    babi-hrse
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 788 ✭✭✭babi-hrse


    Nqp15hhu wrote: »
    Well here’s another photo from today for clarification. To me it looks like there is a light ring around the infection site.

    I got exactly that working I've been told it's a spider bite.
    Tick bites have multiple rings all the same I'd like to get checked too. It itched and had goosebumps I was knackered and went to bed


  • #13
    Nqp15hhu
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,254 ✭✭✭Nqp15hhu


    iwillhtfu wrote: »
    That doesn't look like a bullseye type rash more of a reaction to the bite. How did you manage to miss a tick there? They usually hang on for a couple of days.

    The chances of you catching lymes is quite low but take the prescription and hopefully you'll be grand. An imprtnant lesson learned about hiking in long grass etc and checking yourself over afterwards.


    I don’t know. I didn’t think to check my leg. But rest assured I will be checking again if I go hiking anytime soon.

    Regarding Lyme Disease I’m not sure. I have read that you can test negative if you have it.


  • #14
    JimmyVik
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,367 ✭✭✭JimmyVik


    I got lyme disease.
    Got know when I got it first but the symptoms were terrible.
    Eventually the doc got me tested for Lyme disease and the test was negative.
    After another few months of not being able to fuigure out what was wrong with me he sent for another lyme test somewhere else.
    This time it was positive.
    I had some strong antibiotics for 3 weeks on three different occassions.
    The symptoms have been slowly fading now for about 3 years and id say its more or less gone. But its not a nice experience.
    So big dose of antibiotics now and make sure if it is there you get it now, because symptoms dont appear for years.


  • #15
    Nqp15hhu
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,254 ✭✭✭Nqp15hhu


    babi-hrse wrote: »
    I got exactly that working I've been told it's a spider bite.
    Tick bites have multiple rings all the same I'd like to get checked too. It itched and had goosebumps I was knackered and went to bed

    I don’t have any symptoms yet but would like to get this checked out.


  • #16
    Duke of Url
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,662 ✭✭✭Duke of Url


    Nqp15hhu wrote: »
    I don’t know. I didn’t think to check my leg. But rest assured I will be checking again if I go hiking anytime soon.

    Regarding Lyme Disease I’m not sure. I have read that you can test negative if you have it.

    Doxycycline is an Antibiotic used to treat Lyme Disease in early stages.


  • #17
    iwillhtfu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,373 ✭✭✭iwillhtfu


    Duke of Url wrote: »
    Doxycycline is an Antibiotic used to treat Lyme Disease in early stages.

    It's regularly given on suspicion of a tick bite. It looks like a horsefly bite to me but better to treat as a tick bite.


  • #18
    Nqp15hhu
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,254 ✭✭✭Nqp15hhu


    It is a tick bite. I found the tick in my bed.


  • #19
    babi-hrse
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 788 ✭✭✭babi-hrse


    Send a picture of it


  • #20
    Duke of Url
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,662 ✭✭✭Duke of Url


    Nqp15hhu wrote: »
    It is a tick bite. I found the tick in my bed.

    You shouldn’t worry so. You have been put on Doxycycline


  • #21
    Water John
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,808 ✭✭✭✭Water John


    babi-hrse wrote: »
    Send a picture of it

    There are only two pages in the thread, two pics up already, go and read.


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  • #22
    babi-hrse
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 788 ✭✭✭babi-hrse


    This was mine digging a hole by a bunch of cut down bushes on side of road had my arm against the ground found this on my arm later on


  • #23
    babi-hrse
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 788 ✭✭✭babi-hrse


    I meant the tick in his bed watery


  • #24
    Graces7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    Nqp15hhu wrote: »
    Well how do I know if it is Lyme or not?

    Ask your doctor to test for it. And as others have said since I posted, your GP has already covered that eventuality. You have a good GP there .


  • #25
    JustJoe7240
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,475 ✭✭✭JustJoe7240


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118356006#Comment_118356006

    This won't last very long



  • #26
    fritzelly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,678 ✭✭✭✭fritzelly


    What is this? Spam central?



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