[pct-l] Anybody familiar with lyme disease?

[Lonetrail at aol.com (Lonetrail@aol.com)]

Hi

This is lonetrail I picked up lyme disease in Pa also. I first  notice the 
symptoms when I started to get a red circle and swelling around  the bite. I 
evidently picked up a tick and while soaking in the tub it managed  at the water 
line of tub attached itself right below my Adams apple and the  problems 
began.  I thought it would go away after I removed the tick. With  in about a three 
month I began to get severe arthritis in my shoulder area.  I went to a 
doctor and had a blood test. The results came back and I had lyme  disease the 
secondary stage. I was given antibiotics and it cleared it up. I  decided to get a 
lyme vaccine I believe I got my first series shots and all my  symptoms 
immediately came back. The doctor decide not to give the  second  series of shots.
 
Later on in life I  developed arthritis in that area. I found out  that any 
injury I had when I was young it came back to haunt in my later  years.
 
Lonetrail



I think I have symptoms consistent with lyme disease.  Any  ideas as to
how prevalent it really is?  I'm in central PA.  I have  online
information and am visiting a doctor tomorrow morning, but would  still
be interested as to whether anybody has any idea as to whether  catching
it relatively early can reduce the effects much.  I would  greatly
appreciate if anybody intimately familiar with this disease  would
contact me off-list.



Rgds,

Ben  Racine

bjr214@psu.edu  





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