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I'm not great tbh and it's cost me a lot of money (thousands) to get private testing and treatment as the NHS are useless-if they'd picked up on it earlier I might not be in this situation but as it stands I've got advanced neurological symptoms as well as an inflamed nervous system which means stiff sore neck and spinal column so no bike riding for almost a year now and generally feeling total shite.
My partner got it too and has more chronic fatigue/arthritis symptoms so it can express itself in different ways-the main thing is that not everyone gets the rash so if you get bitten and feel like you've got the flu a couple of weeks later insist on getting a 30 day course of antibiotics asap even if the GP protests ignorance or doubt, that's in their own guidelines and treatment pathways and they don't require a positive blood test to do it as they sometimes claim. I got palmed off for months being told that it was a sinus infection, stress, that Lyme 'doesn't exist in the UK' etc. Total shite.
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Really valuable information.
Thank you for sharing.
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This sounds terrible, my wife got it in 2012, luckily we're in Aberdeenshire where lyme's is considered a thing and she got the bullseye rash which showed up straight away along with flu symptoms. She got a heap of Antibiotics and was sorted thank god! I'm constantly picking tick off the dog but she's never had any symptoms but we do look out for it on ourselves.
As for tick removal, if you don't have a tool handy, I know not everyone would have it, I have found an old credit card with a slot cut into it, or even the a strip of plastic from an old milk bottle with a slot cut into it, will help with the removal of ticks, try and get the slot as far under the tick as possible and rotate anti clockwise, no need to pull, it should come loose after a while, hopefully fully intact (happy to be corrected, this is just how I do it). Make sure you kill the fucker after, my favourite method at the moment is boiling water, you can then make yourself a cup of tea in the satisfaction of a job well done. However, if concerned you could always keep it for identification at a later date, in which case, freeze it! -
Awful. I hope you both feel and get better asap. I pulled about 30 ticks off myself last time I was in the highlands, but happily no symptoms manifested. I'm sorry you weren't as lucky.
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I had no idea, I've heard it can be absolutely awful and life changing, hopefully you're not suffering too badly. I will be extra aware of this thanks!