Thursday, September 28, 2006
Vacuous deer tick update
So I went into the doctor this past Tuesday, because I spotted a small bullseye rash at one of the tick bites. As this is characteristic of Lyme disease, I rushed to get it checked out. The place was extremely busy, and so I had to wait a while. When I showed the P.A. the rash, he said "You don't mean this little thing here?" Apparently, although it was a bullseye, and he couldn't say for sure that it wasn't Lyme disease, he was pretty sure that it wasn't. Since I had been bitten so many times, he put me on the antibiotic doxycycline and had blood drawn for tests of several tick-borne diseases. Wednesday morning I woke up with an itchy rash. At first I though this was the tick bites getting inflamed, but after getting the rash on parts of my body that had never been bitten, I figured it was an allergic reaction to the antibiotic. So I called the doctor and they had me get my butt in there. The PA wasn't a hundred percent sure whether the rash was a tick reaction or a reaction to the medicine. He ordered a fast blood test to see what my white cells were doing. My blood test came back fairly normal, and it seemed unlikely that I had a bacterial infection. We still have to wait for the blood tests that were ordered Monday to come back. So they shot me up with a dose of the antiflammatory decadron to counteract allergic shock, and gave me a few alavert samples. He's having me wait until the blood tests arrive to see whether I need to take some other antibiotic.
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3 comments:
Holy crap. Keep us posted.
Be well.
do not have lime disease!
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