Yes--I've had this problem since before the tick bite, though. I also may have had a PANDAS infection as a child, and PANDAS *MAY* have a mycoplasma or Lyme component. If Lyme, I wouldn't be surprised if my father had it and it somehow got passed to me. If mycoplasma, I wasn't having any respiratory symptoms until after my tick bite, so I'm not sure. I also wonder if gum recession is simply related to most neurotoxin mediated illnesses? At the time, I had mercury fillings in my mouth and lived near a nuclear reactor, in an area where there was high radium in the drinking water. Both of those are neurotoxic, so in my case, it's hard to tell what caused this. I would be interested to hear what others have to say.