Do I own Lyme Disease?

Forgot to add...I have been have some headaches...and I seem to feel cold and chill profusely
Answers:     You can only get lymes from ticks. But, you could have have a tick and not noticed. If it is still a problem, go to the doctor and get the blood try-out. Stop freaking out. It's not a huge thing if treated. You just get big accord antibiotics and it goes away.
Lyme disease is not transmitted by wasps, but by ticks.
being said, if you are worried, be in motion to the doc. They can give you a steroid shot and some hydrocortisone for the allergic reaction.
Hi there,

While it is considered rare, Mosquitoes and fleas can carry the lyme germs according to some of the articles I have read.

I have a friend that claims she contracted lyme from fleas, not being aware that she may own been bitten by a tick, which is a painless bite.

You may have had an allergic response to the wasp sting as well. However these reactions are quite severe and can make happen inability to breathe as one of the more serious ones. These reactions can occur immediately or up to 30 minutes after self stung. Since considerable time has elapsed, and I am not a doctor, or that knowledgeable about allergic sensitivity, personally, I suspect that your symptoms are not connected with the sting. Wasps do not carry Lyme disease.
This said, it is clearly possible that you may have been bitten by a tick carrying the bacteria lacking knowing it at around the same time you were stung by the wasp. Some of the symptoms you are describing fall into the pretty common ones of Lyme Disease.

Here is an extensive list of symptoms of Lyme which you may wish to read.
Lyme Disease is more commonly carried by the deer tick (Ixodes scapularis) and on the West Coast, by a tick call the Western black-legged ticks.

It can take up to 30 days or more for symptoms of Lyme to appear. I have Chronic Lyme Disease because I was not diagnosed untimely enough to treat the disease in time. I had various of the symptoms that you talk about and I did have the Lyme unthinking which faded within a week or so. Only 50% or less of people bitten by a lyme disease infected tick will display a impetuous, in fact. Some rashes are disguised in the scalp or in an area where on earth the victim cannot see it. Eighteen years later, I am still dealing with Lyme and thank goodness found a doctor in my state who is "Lyme Literate", and receiving treatment to help alleviate symptoms. I may never be "cured", however.
some honest information about Lyme Disease, visit
http://www.christianet.com/arthritis/chr…

The most important piece for you to do is to find a doctor in your area who is expert in this disease. Many doctors don't know much give or take a few this highly "controversial" disease so this is crucial. Here is a link where you may be capable of find a doc in your area that is Lyme knowedgeable.
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Of course unrecognized allergic reaction can trigger immune system disorders, so rather than muck about guessing, please do consult a doctor as soon as possible to rule out any condition that may be causing you this distress. Don't keep on to be "sure" , as postponing medical attention can prove to be very costly both physically, emotionally, and financially.

Troublesniffer
Infected near Lyme in 1989 and Diagnosed in 1991.
Only Deer Ticks can carry and transfer lymes disease. Not to say you didn't obtain bit by one elsewhere on your person, but a wasp cannot cause it. Nonetheless, see a doctor to see if you have any that, or an allergie to bee stings.
Your symptoms suggest Lyme disease. If you live in an endemic nouns, your doctor should consider Lyme in what's called the "differential diagnosis." The wasp sting is likely merely coincidental, or the way it affected your immune system may have something to do beside the fact that your symptoms began immediately after. Wasp stings are not expected to bring such symptoms, and wasps do not transmit Lyme disease.
bite from an infected TICK (not wasp) could indeed cause all of this, and more, if you don't get it checked out soon. Early treatment can prevent after that complications. Make an appt. with your family dr.

See the CALDA website below for accurate information, look under Lyme 101.

Join your online state support group to ask others in your nouns about drs, support groups, or just to help you follow the issues. Source(s): http://www.lymedisease.org
http://www.ilads.org
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