Is numbness a common problem with lyme disease?
A bout a week ago I notices a small red spot on my left calf. A few days ago I noticed the spot is now about 6 inches by 5 inches with a slight bulls eye resemblance. I also have another large spot on me right lower thigh, along with 3 other smaller spots. 2 days ago I went to the Dr and was given a lyme test ( take 4 days no results yet) and doxycycline. Yesterday the tip of my right big toe went numb. Just curious if this is common with lyme disease or if anyone thinks it is something other than lyme.
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Lyme tests are only 33% - 67% accurate according to the Mayo Clinic web site and you can't even test for lyme for at least 6 weeks after the tick bite. All tests will show as negative until then. Many Lyme specialists don't even use blood tests anymore because of this, they treat it based on the symptoms. Let me start by telling you that my daughter had Lyme and we went to about 20 different doctors before we figured out ourselves that it was probably Lyme. We then went to see a Lyme specialist that confirmed that it was Lyme. By this time, my daughter was in horrible pains most days, her stomach, her joints, her head all hurt. Some days she was in a wheelchair. Of the 20 or so doctors we saw, many said that it was a virus, others said it may be M.S. and a couple said it was in her head and said we should go to a psychiatrist. YOU HAVE TO SEE A LYME SPECIALIST! Most doctors know very little about Lyme and relie on blood tests, that's not good. The numbness in your toe sounds like it could be lyme related. If you have a bullseye rash, then you have lyme for sure. Again, you have to see a lyme specialist. If you caught this at the rash stage, then your treatments will be quick and you will be lyme free in no time. Good Luck
Your description of the common chew appears extra like a spider chew. I'm no longer definite what your "bizarre rash" is like; that is the predominant facet. You would have had an allergy (to the chew or whatever else) or gotten an contamination within the common chew via scratching it. Ticks must grasp on and suck your blood for particularly a at the same time, a couple of hours to an afternoon or 2 (yuck!). They do not simply chew and transfer on like mosquitoes. Unless the chew was once someplace you would not discover a tick for a at the same time, it in most cases is not a tick. However, bites can get inflamed, chiefly when you scratch (and it is viable to scratch sufficient to your sleep). If your "rash" appears like crimson streaks popping out from the chew and the discipline is scorching, that would be a major contamination you would must deal with ASAP, coverage or no longer. If it is simply itchy, take a look at anti-itch lotions and even mentholated merchandise. If your garments rub on it or you do not wish to scratch it to your sleep, take a look at protecting it with a bandaid. Lyme ailment is not transmissible character-to-character, so even though you had it, you could not deliver it on your husband. He's being foolish. I get a wide variety of itchy dime-sized bites that fail to provoke my medical professional while I exhibit them off in the course of visits for different causes.