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I'm worried about the ticks, they've now contracted a severe case of 'Ivan'.
Get well soon mate, cider fest ain't long off!
Get well soon mate, cider fest ain't long off!
Hi Ivan,
Get well soon and hope you feel like getting back out there in the near future. Your symtoms have made me book a doctors visit myself as since a bushcraft course last year (oops) and finding a tick I have had the exact same symtoms aching currently restricted to finger joints and hips (I thought it might be gout LOL) but exact same other feelings of lethargy and fluey headaches etc. I hope that due to the time lapsed I'm not in the unpleasant stuff here!
All the very best.
Get well soon and hope you feel like getting back out there in the near future. Your symtoms have made me book a doctors visit myself as since a bushcraft course last year (oops) and finding a tick I have had the exact same symtoms aching currently restricted to finger joints and hips (I thought it might be gout LOL) but exact same other feelings of lethargy and fluey headaches etc. I hope that due to the time lapsed I'm not in the unpleasant stuff here!
All the very best.
Glad to hear you're responding well to the meds. Get well soon chum and a lesson for us all to be vigilant!
That's terrible news! I'm so sorry.
I refer of course to the demise of Katy's cat!
Sorry to hear about the Lyme's too but you wouldn't expect much sympathy from me. I'm just glad you're blaming it on the ticks rather than the food I cooked that week.
Of course I'm also suspicious about that too. Doctor prescribed me antibiotics once and I had to drink orange juice in the pub. Told me mates I had an ear infection - anything but the truth.
Get well soon ya grey haired old sod.
I refer of course to the demise of Katy's cat!
Sorry to hear about the Lyme's too but you wouldn't expect much sympathy from me. I'm just glad you're blaming it on the ticks rather than the food I cooked that week.
Of course I'm also suspicious about that too. Doctor prescribed me antibiotics once and I had to drink orange juice in the pub. Told me mates I had an ear infection - anything but the truth.
Get well soon ya grey haired old sod.
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Thanks woodpoet, I'm relatively fine compared to the sound of Ivan, though.
Thanks for the update Ivan. I only received one bite (& subsequent bullseye) to the top of my thigh and maybe 48 hours of feeling crappy (almost feinting twice, very sleepy & lathargic) approx 11 days after bite, 16 days after bite was when I incorrectly removed the tic remains, but once I went to the docs (day 17) and was prescribed only 14 days of Doxycycline (100mg tabs but no bloods taken) I started to feel much better. Maybe a bit of placebo involved there. But reading about the suffering you're going thru maybe I haven't got it and the doctors flippant attitude (!) was just.
I've worked in gardens (with deer populations) and lived out in the sticks (large sheep, deer and badger populations) most of my life and have only ever had one tic before, last year in fact - no adverse reactions to that.
The bullseye has only just dissapeared today (4 days after starting the tabs) but it's still itchy...
Hearing your suffering makes me think I'm very lucky but will 100% be doing tic checks with my son and others I go campingexploring with...oh yea, and myself!
Again, best of wishes for your speedy recovery and your return to form
Thanks for the update Ivan. I only received one bite (& subsequent bullseye) to the top of my thigh and maybe 48 hours of feeling crappy (almost feinting twice, very sleepy & lathargic) approx 11 days after bite, 16 days after bite was when I incorrectly removed the tic remains, but once I went to the docs (day 17) and was prescribed only 14 days of Doxycycline (100mg tabs but no bloods taken) I started to feel much better. Maybe a bit of placebo involved there. But reading about the suffering you're going thru maybe I haven't got it and the doctors flippant attitude (!) was just.
I've worked in gardens (with deer populations) and lived out in the sticks (large sheep, deer and badger populations) most of my life and have only ever had one tic before, last year in fact - no adverse reactions to that.
The bullseye has only just dissapeared today (4 days after starting the tabs) but it's still itchy...
Hearing your suffering makes me think I'm very lucky but will 100% be doing tic checks with my son and others I go campingexploring with...oh yea, and myself!
Again, best of wishes for your speedy recovery and your return to form
Lyme Update, well 10 days in tablets are doing a good job , didn't upset my guts or any other side effects , hips and knees have stopped aching so hopefully they are doing the job, apart from being weak as a kitten most of the other horrible symptoms have subsided , headaches stopped and feeling faint gone , but the sweatty old business and general feeling crap comes and goes , back to never shutting up and picking up speed in general , but can't walk too far without being knackered , but definately on the mend.
Didn't feel up to going out for fathers day , but managed a night out on the coast which was great .
Anyway folks it goes without saying be vigilant and take all the precautions you can to avoid the little sods coz they certainly pack a punch !
Ivan...
Thanks Biker for the message on the other thread.
Didn't feel up to going out for fathers day , but managed a night out on the coast which was great .
Anyway folks it goes without saying be vigilant and take all the precautions you can to avoid the little sods coz they certainly pack a punch !
Ivan...
Thanks Biker for the message on the other thread.
Fantastic news. I also found the doxy had a quick response - it s still6weeks until i felt normal. Still a bit tick paranoid now though.
John
For xylaria , update , feeling a lot more normal now , just weak walking anymore than a couple of miles absolutely knackered , sweating profusely and makes me feel sick , strength seems to have gone , but as previously stated nearly all other symptoms subsided.
Looking forward to July 2nd for all the tests and definitave answersto long term prognosis.
Looking forward to July 2nd for all the tests and definitave answersto long term prognosis.
xylaria
Bushcrafter (boy, I've got a lot to say!)
sorry for the confusion, I never read other chatter, and i couldnt work out from your post on the other thread if had been diagnosed or not. Ray mears got treated for lymes and then by the sounds of it realised once the course was finshed he probably had had it for 14 years. He said he felt great once the month was up. Rest up a bit, i used to be a county standard long distance runner and I had to drop out of uni when I got influenza and post viral fatigue lasted for months. I reckon i pushed myself too early.
I got a tick last week my old man found, eerrr the rest of that story is really embarrasing.
Bummer to here Ivan, and yeah anti-biotics really are the worst for your energy and spirit level.
Stick in there man you'll be back soon enough
Yours sincerely Ruud
Stick in there man you'll be back soon enough
Yours sincerely Ruud
Update, great news last Wednesday latest bloods , show that the antibiotics have done their job and have a negative result ! and for the first time in what seems like ages feel normal (well as normal as i can be ) am slowly getting back to , my usual self walking more distance , carrying weight without having to stop and sit down every five minutes , one last test in a month , oh and a well man test , as long as it doesn't mean a finger up the bum !
Once again thanks for the messages of support , really helped when i felt so low and awful .
Ivan...
Once again thanks for the messages of support , really helped when i felt so low and awful .
Ivan...
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