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Shizara
thanks.
. Which makes me feel good on a day like today when I feel like death.
Ihad a bite or something just above my ankle last week and it is swollen and red and has given me a flu- like feeling.
Ithought at first it was a bramble scratch, but it's never bothered m e before.

Has anyone heard of Lymes disease?
2 years ago my son in Southampton had a bite on his leg possibly from a deer tick. it was so bad that he went to the doctor who said put antihistamine cream on it and almost"go away" and mentioned that he'd heard of Lymes but didn't think it was that.
When he described the size and characteristics of the bite to me Ilooked up Lymes on the internetand phoned him to tell him.but he'd already looked it up fo himself and was actually the doctor's surgery. They didn't take him seriously until he insistedthat they do something. No one at the surgery had come across it so he suggested the look it up on computer--'right Now'
They rushed him to the hospital for a day of tests == Ithink the GPS were scared ==-and was found positive
He had to have a lumbar puncture (painful)and all sorts of other tests.
. He was on atibiotics for a month. When he went to the chemist to get the next months supply the pharmacist asked him what they wer for and then told him they were the wrong ones. Back he went to the hospital immediately
and they morE or less said 'whoopps sorry' and gave him the right ones.
There wer many problems -such as not going out in the sun-and bad headaches but luckily it was caught in time.
Lymes is a ver degenerative disease-and no cure after the first few months.
To see how horrific just type in 'Lymes Disease.on the internet.
Apparently it is common in wooded areas and there are notices all arount.Iwould have thought the doctors at the surgery would have known about it being in the New Forest area. The hospital knew.
My son wrote to them later and said as much and also gave them a list of guidelines for the future.
PS iDID NOT KNOW YOU WERE A WOMAN.