Time Frame?

Could someone tell me the time frame of Early stage? Is it a couple of weeks or months?

Hi Nolan,

As I understand it, you cannot put a time frame on it as everybody reacts differently to the disease. Also, if a person has been infected before, the disease progresses much faster.

Early stage is defined, then, not by a time frame but by the type of symptoms. Those symptoms are termed localized and include the rash, flu-like symptoms including joint pain and swelling and swollen lymph glands.

The later, disseminated stages can occur in weeks or months, depending on the patient.

(For a full symptom list of the later stages of Lyme, see the "New to Lyme?... " sticky at the top of the forum).

Sorry there isn't a more exact answer -- it's one of the many things about this disease that makes it so tricky.