Lyme Disease questions
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@lufins-dad said in Lyme Disease questions:
Your doctor should be willing to do so. If not, go to an urgent care. They will put you on it ASAP.
Better have an appointment. Otherwise they'll sit around smoking cigarettes and watch you die in the parking lot.
@catseye3 said in Lyme Disease questions:
@lufins-dad said in Lyme Disease questions:
Your doctor should be willing to do so. If not, go to an urgent care. They will put you on it ASAP.
Better have an appointment. Otherwise they'll sit around smoking cigarettes and watch you die in the parking lot.
Nah, urgent care is great for mild stuff like this. For serious problems, hell no.
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I hope you donât have Lyme. Good for you to be proactive about all that. How does one see a doctor in such short order?
@horace said in Lyme Disease questions:
I hope you donât have Lyme. Good for you to be proactive about all that. How does one see a doctor in such short order?
It's funky here. I got a next-day appointment, and there was no one in the waiting room.
My ophthalmologist requires 3-4 months advance scheduling. Used to be 3-4 weeks.
My doc sent the one-dose doxy to the wrong CVS, though, so I was trying to transfer it.
CVS 1 basically refused to fill it. They said it would take days. Everyone was working the clinic.
CVS 2 never answered their phone.
CVS 3 in the next county over could do it, no problem. There was nobody in there. -
My Lyme disease hit me very hard, mostly utter exhaustion. Scary that the doxy didnât seem to be working the first couple of weeks. In the end I have not experienced anything since, it seems like a lifetime ago.
@loki said in Lyme Disease questions:
My Lyme disease hit me very hard, mostly utter exhaustion. Scary that the doxy didnât seem to be working the first couple of weeks. In the end I have not experienced anything since, it seems like a lifetime ago.
Did it ever come back?
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@loki said in Lyme Disease questions:
My Lyme disease hit me very hard, mostly utter exhaustion. Scary that the doxy didnât seem to be working the first couple of weeks. In the end I have not experienced anything since, it seems like a lifetime ago.
Did it ever come back?
@aqua-letifer said in Lyme Disease questions:
@loki said in Lyme Disease questions:
My Lyme disease hit me very hard, mostly utter exhaustion. Scary that the doxy didnât seem to be working the first couple of weeks. In the end I have not experienced anything since, it seems like a lifetime ago.
Did it ever come back?
No. My recollection at the time was that there were three phases and if you got it in phase 1 you were absolutely fine, by phase 3 it was in you forever. I think phase 1 is many months so you are well within a safe period if all that still holds.
In fact I havenât thought about it in years until you mentioned it.
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@aqua-letifer said in Lyme Disease questions:
@loki said in Lyme Disease questions:
My Lyme disease hit me very hard, mostly utter exhaustion. Scary that the doxy didnât seem to be working the first couple of weeks. In the end I have not experienced anything since, it seems like a lifetime ago.
Did it ever come back?
No. My recollection at the time was that there were three phases and if you got it in phase 1 you were absolutely fine, by phase 3 it was in you forever. I think phase 1 is many months so you are well within a safe period if all that still holds.
In fact I havenât thought about it in years until you mentioned it.
@loki said in Lyme Disease questions:
My recollection at the time was that there were three phases and if you got it in phase 1 you were absolutely fine
Sorry? I'm not getting this. What do you mean by 'phases'? Phases the bug is in when it bites you, or something?
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@loki said in Lyme Disease questions:
My recollection at the time was that there were three phases and if you got it in phase 1 you were absolutely fine
Sorry? I'm not getting this. What do you mean by 'phases'? Phases the bug is in when it bites you, or something?
@catseye3 said in Lyme Disease questions:
@loki said in Lyme Disease questions:
My recollection at the time was that there were three phases and if you got it in phase 1 you were absolutely fine
Sorry? I'm not getting this. What do you mean by 'phases'? Phases the bug is in when it bites you, or something?
No, a timeline from when you got bit to when you do something about it.
You may or may not get acute Lyme. But wait too long, and you can get chronic Lyme, which is not so much an infection as it is a permanent autoimmune disorder.
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@catseye3 said in Lyme Disease questions:
@loki said in Lyme Disease questions:
My recollection at the time was that there were three phases and if you got it in phase 1 you were absolutely fine
Sorry? I'm not getting this. What do you mean by 'phases'? Phases the bug is in when it bites you, or something?
No, a timeline from when you got bit to when you do something about it.
You may or may not get acute Lyme. But wait too long, and you can get chronic Lyme, which is not so much an infection as it is a permanent autoimmune disorder.
@aqua-letifer said in Lyme Disease questions:
You may or may not get acute Lyme. But wait too long, and you can get chronic Lyme, which is not so much an infection as it is a permanent autoimmune disorder.
Ah . . . like malaria.
Bummer.
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I have a good friend who's daughter got the chronic version as they didn't catch it in time, and it's pretty awful. It's basically stopped her from being able to have a reasonable career.
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Sorry to hear this. I hope you don't get it. We used to have a vaccine for Lyme. We might get one again in a couple of years.
h/t Quirt @ wtf
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Getting a prescription was a serious pain in the ass, but I got one. Starting today.
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Well, fuck.
I've had some moderate problems with dizziness for the past two days. Haven't been able to shake it. When I lie down I'm pretty close to fine, but sitting or standing, I get pretty light-headed and my legs feel pretty wobbly.
Found the tick on Sunday, took an initial doxy dose on Wednesday, started the twice-daily 30-day program on Saturday night. I think I caught it early enough. Hope I did anyway.
This is gearing up to be a rather crappy month, but my main fear is that this doesn't go away after that and it's followed by worse shit.
My doctor's office is fucking worthless. Nurse Practitioner I initially spoke to was loathe to give me anything, and the doc I spoke to last week is absolutely convinced I have COVID. She wanted me to get properly tested at a facility that uses literally the same rapid tests we have here at home. I know that because I've gone there, asked what they used, and whether I could get the same kit for the house, which I can. So it's either go to the place and risk getting COVID to prove to a dipshit doctor I don't have COVID, or find a different doc. I'm going with option B.
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@mik said in Lyme Disease questions:
You need a new doctor, preferably outside that organization.
Ironically I had to deal with these quacks because last week my doc was on vacation.
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Yes, it's time to change docs.
Probably because I'm having a Cynical Day, I advise you to tell the new guy about your current symptoms before telling about all the business with the Lyme and the doxy. No need to telegraph him into a groove before you have to.
It's like, the patient relates all the symptoms of malaria and then says, "Do you think I have malaria, doc?" And the doc says, "Why, yes, I do think you have malaria! Pay on the way out, please."
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Sorry to hear about these worries Aqua.
Before changing health care providers, be sure to consult with your health care provider.
@horace said in Lyme Disease questions:
Sorry to hear about these worries Aqua.
Before changing health care providers, be sure to consult with your health care provider.
Thanks, Horace. Hangin' in there.
Been taking Dramamine for the loopiness. Seems to be helping somewhat?
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Aqua
Based on what I learned and what I went through I would not be concerned about long term issues. As I mentioned before it took me 3 weeks of being on the doxy before I felt any relief from absolute exhaustion. I really thought after 3 days of an antiobiotic I would be on the mend and I remember staring into my depleting bottle of Doxy thinking crap this is not working.
