[fiestyredhead331]

Anyone had it?

I have a bite mark on the outside of my knee which was really itchy a couple of days ago and now its developed a bruise around it and its tender to touch. Got an appointment with the GP today just to get it checked out.
I felt really strange last night when I went to bed, when I lay on my side I felt breathless but on my back was fine 

I've had hundreds of ticks before but never had a reaction like this, if it was a tick, I never found one at the time.

[SallyintNorth]

Someone recently posted some pics on Facebook of classic lyme disease bullseye lesions.

I'm sure they won't mind me reproducing one here:



Look here for the others.

[fiestyredhead331]

yep that looks like it except my bruise around it is darker, would take a pic but will spare you a pic of my milk bottle white leg at this time of day 

[Treud na Mara]

AB course, and make sure you complete it, should do the trick otherwise you could have months of illness!
I know you know about the completing the course thing but it really does matter. Lyme disease is a very nasty complaint.

[Lesley Silvester]

Looks nasty. Glad you have GP appointment quickly.

[fiestyredhead331]

ah well I've answered my own original question....I HAVE IT.....

2 week course of antibiotics and then we'll see if I present any other symptoms 

[Bionic]

   the antibiotics do the trick

[Fleecewife]

Ticks - horrid

I'm glad your doc took it seriously and you're on the antiBs straight away  . 

[fiestyredhead331]

thats a bonus of living in the country and having rural doctors I suppose, they take these things seriously but apparently the palpatations I had last night might not be connected to the Lyme disease so talking about doing a heart trace on me next...oh the joys!

[midtown]

Fast identification and antibiotics.
A good source of information can be found here; http://www.lymediseaseaction.org.uk/ and, if you've got a GP who won't acknowledge your concerns following a tick bite, it's worth shoving the website reference under their nose or, take yourself off to the nearest A & E department!

I urge everyone on this forum to take part in the HPA Tick Recording Scheme; http://www.hpa.org.uk/Topics/InfectiousDiseases/InfectionsAZ/Ticks/TickRecordingScheme/

[henchard]

ah well I've answered my own original question....I HAVE IT.....

2 week course of antibiotics and then we'll see if I present any other symptoms 

A course of antibiotics may be a wise precaution but a similar rash is not conclusive evidence of Lyme's disease.

see

http://www.lymediseaseaction.org.uk/about-lyme/faq/

There is a photo (Hopefully) of a rash I got below which was suspected of being Lymes disease (but was not). The whole complex story is on this very good forum about Lyme's disease

http://www.lymeneteurope.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=5019

[fiestyredhead331]

fascinating info

but as they say, even with blood tests they can't definitively diagnosis Lyme etc 

[SallyintNorth]

It's clearly worth treating as Lyme Disease if it might be, rather than not treating it because there's no definitive diagnosis.

Well done for getting to the doc quickly, and well done Doc for take prompt appropriate action 

Fingers crossed it isn't, or that the a/b's do the trick 

[FiB]

I did read recently that some are recommending longer course of abs (1 month) ....  Worth researching as lymes effects last years not months. Have a few friends with it.

[john and helen]

I still can't believe how many people are still using tweezers to get the tick out,
its the pressure on the ticks body that makes it vomit into your body, causing the lymes,

the tic-o-tool has got to be a, must have in the countryside medical bag surly