I got lyme disease...What to expect?

I live in Northeastern PA in the mountains.

The past two weeks I started feeling some weird body aches.

Some headache, muscle pain, weird joint pains.
But mostly felt pain when I was in bed sleeping.
If I woke up and started to move the pain would go away.

Did not develop fever.

I knew it had to be somethign with my immune system.

And then, next thing I know is an oval reddish patch formed on my leg, not a bulseye per say.

so I googled and found a few just like mine relating to lyme.
I never felt being bitten by a tick. In any case...

Ran to the docs the next day. Put me on doxy for 20 days.
This is my first week on doxy.

I hope I found this soon enough. This is my first week on doxy.
The patch amost faded away already..

What to expect?
HOw long does it take for these body aches to go to?

First of all, welcome. I'm glad you were able to catch it early. Hopefully, it will make it easier to beat. I would recommend getting more doxy. 28-30 days is recommended for a recent infection. Since you are an endemic area, you can probably just go to another doctor, and he will write another prescription. I wouldn't even tell him about the one you already have. This way you know you will get the 28-30 days you really need. Many doctors, even in endemic areas, are pretty ignorant about recommended treatment protocols.

Also, what dose is your Doxy? BTW, I'm from PA too. Grew up outside of Philly, but my parents are from NE PA, and I still have tons of family in your neck of the woods

Just jumping in to say, welcome!

We are glad you find us!

Hey guys, I'm in a deer infested area.
I'm on Doxy the bootle says 100MG pill, to take 2 a day.
been on it for 6 days.

The patch was as a light red when I "caught it" and now is gone.
Does it mean anything or not?

My other main sympton is still there and freaks me out.
I wake up from my sleep feeling like I have arthrits, like stiff joins, pains in fingers joints, knees etc, I also my body feel sore.
I don't know if there are other symptoms I might be missing here.

HOwever I get up and stand from the bed feeling these pains, start walking, start moving and then in a while the pain goes away. Does it happen to you?
After I start moving, go to work is that I feel somewhat okay.

Anyone felt this? is that how it is? I'm not having headaches or fever...What stage of lyme might this be?

If you're in PA, I go through to the Geisinger medical system.

Well, I might have to communicate with my doc, maybe tell him I"m still feeling these pains and see if I can get more?

Hi Dmonica!
Welcome to our community! I'm glad you found us.

If you haven't yet, please do read through our "new to Lyme' thread as it's packed with ​​important information​​, symptom lists, helpful links and pdf's, how to detox when one has these infections, information on probiotics and much more.​​ ​​​​And, here's another good place to find helpful detoxing rout​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ines​​:​​​​​​ ​​​http://www.tiredoflyme.com/detox-methods.html​​

Detoxing is quite important while in treatment for these infections, because as the bacteria dies, it releases toxins and those toxins increase our symptoms. This increase in symptoms during the time the bacteria is dying is known as herxing, and it can get pretty intense for some of us.

Detoxing may also help ease the arthritic feelings you are having. And yes, it's a fairly common symptom of Lyme and company.

The rash is just another symptom. It shows that the bacteria are in the skin, and they can come and go through out treatments, so just keep track of any symptoms, including the skin rash(s).

You need to stay in treatment until all symptoms resolve, even if the 28 days isn't enough treatment. You may need to find an ILADS trained LLMD in order to continue treatments - if so, we should be able to help with that.

But, it's very important that you get the proper treatment - 400 - 600 mgs of Doxy a day for a minimum of 4 - 6 weeks - or longer if symptoms don't resolve before treatment ends.