Lyme

Hope you get better, and I hope Ontario Doctors step it up and get some sort of training for this.

I seriously wonder how many people have this and don't get properly diagnosed.

Did you find the tick while it was still on you? If so, did you have it tested? What do you mean by "Tick bites (mid October)"?

In the 2016 deer season I found a tick firmly embedded in my thigh in the morning before I was heading out to go deer hunting. I pulled it out and brought it to Ottawa Public Health the next day to have it tested. I heard back from them in FEBRUARY that the tick tested positive for Lyme. Because it was on me for less than 24 hours and was not fully engorged, and I was already on antibiotics at the time of the tick bite due to a lung infection, I was not too worried. But at the time of finding the tick, I have to say, I was pretty worried.

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Originally Posted by mosquito

It seems to be showing up more and more from what I read in outdoors articles and on the History channel show "Curse of Oak Island" the one brother was identified with it and it looked like it laid him out with exhaustion, aches and pains etc. (sort of like a flu) as well as the symptoms like the bite mark and from the show it looks like he was off his feet for weeks. Hope it is better soon. Remember you can catch it again (if I understand what I read right) so don't think you are immune if you start feeling like that again.

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A friend of mine got it four years ago and was hospitalized almost sixty times in one year ! He had every test available done on him when finally a specialist in the U.S.A diagnosed him and concluded he had Lyme. It was a living hell what he had to endure for the first year and still suffers bouts of it because it stays in your system in some cases. This past summer the symptoms hit him again and he had to go on another very expensive intravenous antibiotic His new family doctor concluded that almost 1 million dollars was spent on testing/drugs trying to figure out what he had ! Some of the people in the medical profession even concluded what he was experiencing was all in his mind ! Not every case is the same and if caught early most can have a relatively normal life. I wish you all the best Werner and a speedy recovery. Thoughts and prayers.

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Originally Posted by rf2

Did you find the tick while it was still on you? If so, did you have it tested? What do you mean by "Tick bites (mid October)"?

In the 2016 deer season Found a tick firmly embedded in my thigh in the morning before i was heading out to go deer hunting. I pulled it out an brought it to Ottawa Public Health the next day to have it tested. I heard back from them in FEBRUARY that the tick tested positive for Lyme. Because it was on me for less than 24 hours and was not fully engorged, and I was already on antibiotics at the time of the tick bite due to a lung infection, I was not too worried. But at the time of finding the tick, I have to say, I was pretty worried.

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I found the tick on me in mid-October - after the rash and some other symptoms had shown up.
In hind-sight, I'm pretty sure I already had lyme at that point. No - I didn't have the tick tested.
I didn't draw a connection between the tick bite and the previous rash.
Actually - I didn't connect any of the symptoms together until I started researching Lyme.
And I only started researching Lyme when I discovered the headache-neckpain-shoulderpain connection to Lyme.

I'm a typical middle aged guy - I don't worry too much about my health - or all these symptoms. Just figured it was part of getting old.
I only started looking into this after I was done deer hunting.

It's only recently that it is becoming common knowledge that ticks infected with the bacteria that causes Lyme disease are quite common in the Ottawa area. The regional health authorities recommend getting ticks that you find biting you tested, but it takes so long to get results that the testing is only useful for their tracking purposes. I think it's recommended to see your family doctor right away and start a course of antibiotics if you have been bitten by a tick .

Down here you can get test results in a couple days - if it takes so long up there another option you have is to send it to a laboratory here in the states and get a result over the phone in a couple days -

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Down here you can get test results in a couple days - if it takes so long up there another option you have is to send it to a laboratory here in the states and get a result over the phone in a couple days -

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Lyme disease is a really new thing up here.

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Originally Posted by Fox

Lyme disease is a really new thing up here.

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Gabe Magnotta of Magnotta Wines, died from Lyme Disease in 2009 , it was known long before that, but not yet considered as being epidemic.

It was first diagnosed in 1975 in Old Lyme Connecticut.

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Lyme disease is a really new thing up here.

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Not a new thing Fox, lets just say it was ignored by the medical community for many many years . Another friend of mine got Lyme disease well over 20 years ago and was misdiagnosed with MS. Even my other friend was told 4 years ago he had MS until he went to the U.S where he was diagnosed correctly. The clinic in the U.S receive hundreds of emails daily from Canadians that had been diagnosed as having MS when in fact they had Lyme.