I’m a multiple winner of the Lyme disease sweepstakes,
The other night I ended up in the emergency room. I had been jolted out my restless sleep with sharp shooting pains through my chest with my hands numb.
The doctor’s office just called to tell me that I tested positive.
I’m a multiple winner of the Lyme disease sweepstakes, brought to me courtesy of our local ticks and am on a 21 day regime of Doxycycline. I should be buying Georgia lottery tickets. Treatments can depend on the stage and area of the body effected
Best advice: Use lots of a good repellent. Have a blood test occasionally if you're in an infected area. Talk to your doctor if you have to remove some ticks after a outdoors excursion.
Unfortunately there is no vaccine currently available. The last one was pulled with some saying that the vaccine was worse than the disease
Don’t count on seeing the distinctive target bruise every time and there are a myriad of symptoms that seem to change constantly.
I had the bulls eye bruise the first infection, but not on the second and third. According to the experts, the bruise occurs in 80% of the cases. But sometimes it’s in places that aren’t really noticeable. My butt isn’t my best feature. And unlike most women, I don’t spend a lot of time gazing at it in the mirror trying to decide if it’s to big or sags or anything else “to much“. As a matter of fact GF say’s I have a hummingbird butt that is barely big enough to help hold up my pants.
There are a lot of diseases that are carried by the blood suckers such as West Nile Encephalitis, Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever and Lyme Disease. I’ve often wondered how come they don’t carry Aids, but “they” say they don’t. So we’ll leave that speculation to other times.
Symptoms can range from severe flu like symptoms to “These include loss of muscle tone on one or both sides of the face (called facial or “Bell’s palsy), severe headaches and neck stiffness due to meningitis, shooting pains that may interfere with sleep, heart palpitations and dizziness due to changes in heartbeat, and pain that moves from joint to joint. Many of these symptoms will resolve, even without treatment.
After several months,……”
Lyme and other blood sucker diseases can wrack your body with pain, fever and even death. Lyme can have you questioning your sanity and have doctors running needless high dollar tests when all is really required is a blood test.
There’s not a lot of "after the fact" action you can take. That’s right, unless you want your children to live tortured lives wracked with pain and discomfort, flee for the cities and more urban areas. Stay inside your homes, offices or in your cars, don’t stray into the more rural areas and stay out of the woods and waterways. I would even suggest that most of you move back to where you came from to avoid not only the diseases with their attendent pains, but the guilt associated by exposing your loved ones to such horrors.
Do it for the children
Now for those of you who haven’t left to pack the car to flee, I probably can’t scare you away from my beloved woodlands, so I’ll try to help make your lives a little more comfortable.
Baby powder in your underwear can make life much more bearable here in the humid south. Not the corn starch variety, but the one with real talc. It won’t roll up into little balls between the cheeks of your butt.
Chiggars, or chiggers, or redbugs, they’re all pretty much the same and like mosquitoes and ticks, there's not a whole lot you can do after the fact.
Lots and lots of bug repellent is the best line of defense if you won’t move back into the city propers.
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