Early lyme

Good for you to act so quickly!!

What is the dosage of doxy? Preferably you will have 200 mg twice daily...but often Doctors only prescribe 100 mg twice daily.

Welcome to this forum...a wonderful place for support and help. Many knowledgeable people here to answer the questions you have.

Good for you that you just caught it! Me personal, would have pushed for more than three weeks. Just watch for any returning symptoms when done with meds. This is a very difficult bacteria to treat and it tends to hide from meds and when the body is cleared of meds, it emerges once again. I am so happy you know about this bacteria. Most of us here did not have the right information at the right time. Do more research. Going through what i am going now, if i new what i know now, i would have taken the doxy for two moths, the least. But then again, do your research. Three weeks doxy may work for some, but not for all. Wish you the best.

Also, 100mg is too low. You need 200mg twice daily to actually kill Lyme. 100mg just is just bacteriostatic.

Yes you still on time for a cure. They say that it becomes chronic after six months. But then again you have people getting cured within the year of infection. Passed a year it is more complicated. Keep in mind that some do not develop symptoms till a few years after infection, some develop symptoms within days, weeks or months after the bite. My point is that it depends on how your body reacts to it. I forgot to mention that some people have the borrelia and they never get sick from it, don't even know they have it. Just be diligent and do research on lyme. Be careful with the CDC page, it is loaded with misleading information. I ended up there right after i removed the tick and i believed them...i mean CDC, you would think they are the one to go to, right? Well, i ended up with lyme. And not to mention the test which came up negative. I went on with my life feeling weird. I wasted precious time and delayed my treatment. If that first test would have come out positive, i would have gotten treatment and most likely cured. Be diligent, get informed.

Nope no other health problems or a family history of problems. I haven't been sick since I was a child. Also on tbis forum I don't really see anyone who has early localized, mostly people who found it late or at least a year later, maybe there is a reason for a lack of early lyme writers?

Well the good news is that your family is healthy and you have been healthy. Unfortunately, co-infections, if you have any, are there already when you get bitten. They are held in check by your immune system and flare up with the bite. I got bitten first when I was 8 and got meningitis. I was on 2 months of Amoxicillin. I recovered mostly, there were some symptoms that remained but I was well until I got bitten by fleas when I was 19. I got bitten by a tick again when I was 39, was given 1 day of doxy. Things seemed fine until I collapsed at 41. I was in such horrid state that I did not think I was going to make it. I flew out to Sponaugle where I was diagnosed with Ehrlichia, Babesia, Chlamydia Pneumoniae, Protomyxzoa, mold exposure, HLA and MTHFR genetic mutation, and a missing liver enzyme. So an antibiotic would not have helped me anyways because I had the genetic piece that nobody had looked at until then. If you want to be really sure have the HLA, MTHFR, and organic solvents done at Labcorp. If you are fine then you don't need to worry. If you are not then you need to figure out how to deal with that part of your health.

Ticks very often carry more than just Lyme. One tick bite can give you multiple coinfections.

I would find an LLMD.