scent of cedar
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Like that would be a surprise after the woodtick season we had here this year!
Symptoms were not all that spectacular. I am deep down tired, and found that I was exhausted after activities that I would normally have been able to handle without a second thought. Not lethargy so much as a lack of endurance. Finally, I developed pneumonia.
Whether the bite occurred this Spring or last year, that was the main symptom.
Diagnosis is made through a simple blood test. Treatment, if the disease is caught in the early stages, involves oral doxycycline for three weeks.
Ehrlichiosis, another tick-borne illness prevalent throughout the country, but especially here in Wisconsin, is treated the same way.
Ehrlichiosis will make you much sicker, though.
So, if you are abnormally tired and just seem to have no endurance, or if you see those symptoms in your children, and if there is any chance of tick exposure, ask about having them tested for Lyme's (and/or ehrlichiosis).
Barbara
P.S. Here is a funny thing. We had our dog checked for Lyme's?
But not ourselves. One of those things you never think is going to happen to you, I guess....
:smile:
Symptoms were not all that spectacular. I am deep down tired, and found that I was exhausted after activities that I would normally have been able to handle without a second thought. Not lethargy so much as a lack of endurance. Finally, I developed pneumonia.
Whether the bite occurred this Spring or last year, that was the main symptom.
Diagnosis is made through a simple blood test. Treatment, if the disease is caught in the early stages, involves oral doxycycline for three weeks.
Ehrlichiosis, another tick-borne illness prevalent throughout the country, but especially here in Wisconsin, is treated the same way.
Ehrlichiosis will make you much sicker, though.
So, if you are abnormally tired and just seem to have no endurance, or if you see those symptoms in your children, and if there is any chance of tick exposure, ask about having them tested for Lyme's (and/or ehrlichiosis).
Barbara
P.S. Here is a funny thing. We had our dog checked for Lyme's?
But not ourselves. One of those things you never think is going to happen to you, I guess....
:smile: