Once I got the fevers and stuff I got a bunch of rashes that were purple on the middle and gradually turned back to skin color about ten inches round. Probaly thirty of them or so.
First they thought I had meningitis then it was lymes then west Nile then anaplasmosis all came back negative so they sent a sample to Boston to a lymes specialist and was positive.
They think I had it for so long because lymes gets worse in stages of not treated. Was on doxycycline for a month then all symptoms went away that I had except iv been off of it for 4 months now and I have a hard time concentrating. Reading blueprints and making material lists is very hard for me now. It’s like I have no spare memory and can’t remember numbers I have to write everything down as i go It sucks
I have been an out doors man all my life and as a kid we got tick bites all the time in the summer.
About 10 years ago I was working with a cutting crew up in Maryland on the navel base and I started itching.
I looked down and I had thousands of ticks crawling on me. We were cutting around some bomb huts where they made bombs that were inactive and I went into one of the huts and stripped my close off and I had thousands of ticks on me. I spent about 2 hours in there picking as many of them off that I could. When I got home that evening I had hundreds of red welts and red spots where I had been bit and I found many more ticks still on me.
They were little tint things and my best guess is I must have gotten into a nest of them.
I have never been checked for limes and I do have health issues that I never had looked at.
If I have limes I've had it for a long time. I never put the two together as a kid. If I got sick I just dealt with it.
That could explain a lot of my symptoms I have dealt with for many many years.