Ticks!!!!!!

[JFigliuolo]

Originally Posted by Karl F

Don't even want to get started on this topic.. almost lost my wife to this.... she hasn't ever really been the same.. Rash don't alway show..
She was misdiagnosed for over a year, flu like, arthritis, Vertigo, lack of focus... she even had to stop work, couldn't drive, or even do stuff around the house.. got into her Nervous System.. docs thought she had MS.... AMA and most Docs know Very Little about Lyme, (although they won't ever admit it).. Thank God we stumbled across one specialist who sent us to a Lyme Specialist.. 3 months of IV Rocepherin, followed by several months of oral antibiotics.. helped get most of her back, took almost a year and a half of treatment.. Really took a Toll.. this was in the early 90's.. tick paranoia at my house, ever since. Put me in a world of debt too...

Don't take Lyme lightly.. detect early, and insist on a month of anti biotics minimum.. Learned it never really fully goes away.. can hide in your system and sit dormant for years....wife had a couple of small reoccurances.. none the last few years tho.. Thank God.

My wife is going through that now... It will be three years this June. Her life is w/o a doubt a living hell. We have done just about all the meds the Lyme doc can think of including IV rocef for 3 months... un f'ng believable.
Pm me your wife's doc if you don't mind. We are at the point now we'll try/investigate anything.

[Jenn]

gosh I hate reviving this thread but hubby has now had 2 deer ticks and 1 wood tick in as many days.................I have to go mow...................and I am freakin out......

[Raven]

about pennyroyal oil Jenn.... you can put it on pant legs
ticks hate it - as good or better than deet
you can order seeds and grow it....
its a member of the mint family if my memory serves me correctly.

[Jenn]

maybe I wiil plant the whole yard with it!!!!!! the other night we were literally out there for less than five minutes!!!!! I hate ticks!!!