Lyme Disease

[roadie gal]

You don't have to be in "Lyme country" to get Lyme's disease. It's all over the country (although much more prevalent in the northeast) and in Europe now too. In fact, I just saw a case of Lyme's in northwestern Nevada.

I agree with your doctor. Testing is more of a retrospective thing than a help in diagnosis.

If there is ANY chance that you were exposed it's much better to take the 3 weeks of doxy than to take the chance of ending up with the sequellae of long term Lyme's disease.

[skywalkerbeth]

Stay on the abx. Once you are off, I think it may take several weeks yet again before you should be tested. I understand the residual abx will mask the blood results.

I had it undiagnosed for almost 15 years. It took two years of really hard core abx and anti-malarials to finally get a negative titer count.

Interesting point I hadn't thought of... I feel pretty good but I just am not very fast. Neither hiking/walking nor biking... even if I'm in decent shape I'm no speedster and don't think I ever will be... it seems I've always been that way but when you consider I got bitten 22 years ago (when I started showing symptoms, even though no one at the time put two and two together) and I was pretty young then... who knows if this is all residual many years later!

Emily, sorry to hear about your problems. Are you still getting tested occasionally?

ps. How did you ever get the little buggers when you weren't out in the high grass/doing anything suspect? Were you riding under trees?

[goride]

ps. How did you ever get the little buggers when you weren't out in the high grass/doing anything suspect? Were you riding under trees?

Yes, there are some areas where the trees overhand both the trail and the road. Maybe that is where they came from. That would make sense.