As far as one can tell, less than a week into the process, the meds for Lyme Disease seem to be doing something positive for the one obvious, and one less obvious, sign of the disease: the bulls-eye rash and the headache that (given the weather and my head’s usual reaction to it) might have been from early Lyme or a weather-triggered sinus-migraine-thing.\u00a0\u00a0 A Lyme bull’s-eye rash typically grows and grows…mine had gone from approximately 1\/4 – \/8 inch itchy red spot after tick removal to a ring 3\/4 inch in diameter in a few days;\u00a0 it’s now just under 3\/4 inch, a duller pink, no longer a clear ring.\u00a0 The headache which coincided with the arrival of a storm last week (3 days after tick removal) hung on through the weekend and Monday but is now gone.<\/p>\n
So we’re thinking it was probably Lyme, and having been treated early, it’s in retreat.\u00a0 I still have more than a week of meds to go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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