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karmicdragonflyWhen I had a week off a few weeks ago, I visited Poplar Forest, the second home of Thomas Jefferson. During that visit, I got bitten by a tick. I was driving out of the parking lot, felt something on my leg, pulled at it instinctively. When I held my hand up and realized it was a tick, I was like 'Ewww' and threw it out of the window!
Fast forward a few weeks...and the tick bite was not healing properly. And then one weekend, it turned into a blood blister...and I knew something was wrong.
Then, I started feeling 'bad'...nothing particularly specific...no fever that I knew of, no rash, just weird aches in odd places and a feeling of lethargy and feeling 'bad', and wanting to sleep a lot. I thought it could have been a sinus infection, but because of the tick bite's weird behavior, I went in to the urgent care facility and wanted a Lyme Disease test.
They did the Lyme Disease test, but also a test for Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever. And indeed, the second one came back positive!
I've been on antibiotics now a couple of days, and I feel SO MUCH BETTER! I don't think I realized how bad I really had been feeling because I now feel pretty great! I will be on Doxycycline for another 12 days of so. I'm very glad I went in for a test!
Fast forward a few weeks...and the tick bite was not healing properly. And then one weekend, it turned into a blood blister...and I knew something was wrong.
Then, I started feeling 'bad'...nothing particularly specific...no fever that I knew of, no rash, just weird aches in odd places and a feeling of lethargy and feeling 'bad', and wanting to sleep a lot. I thought it could have been a sinus infection, but because of the tick bite's weird behavior, I went in to the urgent care facility and wanted a Lyme Disease test.
They did the Lyme Disease test, but also a test for Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever. And indeed, the second one came back positive!
I've been on antibiotics now a couple of days, and I feel SO MUCH BETTER! I don't think I realized how bad I really had been feeling because I now feel pretty great! I will be on Doxycycline for another 12 days of so. I'm very glad I went in for a test!