[Clare.T]

I'll swop you some of my Type L ?

:lol:

It will probably remain a mystery.

The thing won't be in your house because their life cycle is outdoors. Unless it's attached to something else with warm suckable blood but I don't think they go from one host to another. When they are sated they drop off I think.
Isn't it endemic in your region ?
I got mine just standing in a garden barefoot , short grass, one day for about 10 mins in a part of Germany where it wasn't all that prevalent compared with other areas. It's well worth taking precautions and checking over each other , kids and pets too, even in the UK after being outside, where we rarely think about it. Lyme disease is on a phenomenal rise in the UK probably because of milder winters. Awareness is low so it could go unsuspected and never diagnosed.

I had IV doxycycline over 10 days which got rid of the antibodies.

I hope the AB's do the trick for you too

Clare

 

[Clare.T]

Hi Karol
I'm sorry about the sickness from the Doxy. Are you able to take 'live' yoghourt or probiotic yoghourt pills ?

I meet 9 out of 11 of the criteria

I am curious about what the 9 are if you feel like saying It's quite hard to have so many and not have lupus ! Naturally, because they are a description of what they are going to call lupus as opposed to any other CTD

All the best
Clare

 

[Clare.T]

Hello Jeffrey
I don't mind, although I am sure you would get more useful info on a Lyme Disease forum, but it isn't helpful to you and since I had already been diagnosed with lupus there wasn't a differential diagnosis element.

My brush with LD must go back almost 20 years.
I mentioned to my rheumy at a routine visit that I had been bitten about 5 months earlier. Blood tests showed very high levels of Burgdorfer borreliosis antibodies. I had 10 days of IV doxycycline infusions. Retesting afterwards showed that the treatment had been successful.
I just remember a mix of feeling fed up to the teeth at my huge bad luck at contracting LD at all and great good luck at having had the sense to mention it to my rheumy who happened to be very clued up about LD - he had been one of the first German researchers into it.

With hindsight I think I was feeling generally more unwell than usual, more tired and sweating unusually on exertion but I put it down to menopause. ( No www in those days )


Good Luck
Clare