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<blockquote data-quote="susiestar" data-source="post: 311969" data-attributes="member: 1233"><p>I agree that this may play a role, but I have a STRONG feeling getting a doctor to help is going to be difficult.</p><p></p><p>Here in OK it is not terribly uncommon for a tick to do this. We have ticks like the rest of the country sprayed a tick aphrodisiac by crop duster around here. I have had several ticks do this, esp if the jaws/mouth break off with-o releasing. The body just reacts to it like it is a foreign body and the sore is the normal reaction to something like that.</p><p></p><p>I have a call in to an entomologist I know (The blessings of an adopted Gpa who was a statistics guru and did ALL kinds of research with the bug dudes!) and he will call when he gets a chance. He will know, or will find out before he calls, if there are any similar reactions to an insect that would cause her symptoms.</p><p></p><p>I would be a lot more worried if I hadn't had this happen myself. Sadly, unless I can find concrete evidence that it caused something, the docs are going to take that symptom and say I am just searching for something to be wrong with her. been there done that with strange symptoms with Wiz and myself. </p><p></p><p>But I won't forget this, will get her to draw the bug and will search to see if I can find ANY sign that the bug could be related to her symptoms. I am NOT discounting it, but from experience the docs will use it to say it is just a one more sign that Mom is a hypochondriac. Docs did that with Wiz as a toddler when I KNEW something was wrong, and with me when my own health spiraled out of control. I had to MOVE to get a doctor to really LOOK at Wiz and not write his differences off to "mom wants attention". I cannot risk them discounting the severity of Jessie's symptoms and writing this all off as my imagination.</p><p></p><p>She has not ever taken clarinex. The only allergy medication she will take is benadryl - and that only rarely. She often prefers to just let it run its' course unless it is very very severe. </p><p></p><p>Thanks for ideas and thoughts and everything else. I AM keeping a log off all of this so that if I find any correlations I can use them to get help for her. but our docs like to grab onto one symptom that they feel is attention seeking or unrealistic and use it as "evidence" that a parent is looking for drama. I cannot take that risk with as debilitating as this problem is for Jessie. I will stick with the entomologists searching for bugs that can do all of this and let the docs focus on the doctoring - THEY will NOT see a connection. GRRRR.</p><p></p><p>You ladies are truly my sanity in a strange and sometimes frightening reality.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="susiestar, post: 311969, member: 1233"] I agree that this may play a role, but I have a STRONG feeling getting a doctor to help is going to be difficult. Here in OK it is not terribly uncommon for a tick to do this. We have ticks like the rest of the country sprayed a tick aphrodisiac by crop duster around here. I have had several ticks do this, esp if the jaws/mouth break off with-o releasing. The body just reacts to it like it is a foreign body and the sore is the normal reaction to something like that. I have a call in to an entomologist I know (The blessings of an adopted Gpa who was a statistics guru and did ALL kinds of research with the bug dudes!) and he will call when he gets a chance. He will know, or will find out before he calls, if there are any similar reactions to an insect that would cause her symptoms. I would be a lot more worried if I hadn't had this happen myself. Sadly, unless I can find concrete evidence that it caused something, the docs are going to take that symptom and say I am just searching for something to be wrong with her. been there done that with strange symptoms with Wiz and myself. But I won't forget this, will get her to draw the bug and will search to see if I can find ANY sign that the bug could be related to her symptoms. I am NOT discounting it, but from experience the docs will use it to say it is just a one more sign that Mom is a hypochondriac. Docs did that with Wiz as a toddler when I KNEW something was wrong, and with me when my own health spiraled out of control. I had to MOVE to get a doctor to really LOOK at Wiz and not write his differences off to "mom wants attention". I cannot risk them discounting the severity of Jessie's symptoms and writing this all off as my imagination. She has not ever taken clarinex. The only allergy medication she will take is benadryl - and that only rarely. She often prefers to just let it run its' course unless it is very very severe. Thanks for ideas and thoughts and everything else. I AM keeping a log off all of this so that if I find any correlations I can use them to get help for her. but our docs like to grab onto one symptom that they feel is attention seeking or unrealistic and use it as "evidence" that a parent is looking for drama. I cannot take that risk with as debilitating as this problem is for Jessie. I will stick with the entomologists searching for bugs that can do all of this and let the docs focus on the doctoring - THEY will NOT see a connection. GRRRR. You ladies are truly my sanity in a strange and sometimes frightening reality. [/QUOTE]
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