to ask you to sign this petition (Lyme Disease)

[elfycat]

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Back in June I started an AIBU about 'class pets' being sent home (nits. worms and on that day a tick in her scalp from rolling in the grass at lunchtime).

My light-hearted tone was missed by many. And there was a suggestion that I was being a little hysterical about it.

I carried on being paranoid and hysterical over the summer. Finally forcing DD2 (5) into having a blood test. The GP humoured me...

Results? Yesterday I got a call to say that she's tested positive to Lyme Disease. Luckily she's asymptomatic ish and I'm hoping that after she recovers from a huge course of antibiotics she'll be free from it.

But I attended the GP twice (three times including the tick removal) and was utterly dismissed the first time I asked for her to be checked. The next time I asked for a specific GP to call me because I hoped he would listen to me. I have never taken my kids on a time wasting trip.

The only 'symptom' apart from the tick itself was that her bite mark remained inflamed. As it was in her hair (and we've been treating for nits) I couldn't see if the mark developed the customary bullseye appearance. She had a course of antibiotics for another reason and the mark faded during that course and returned afterwards. Amoxicillin is one of the best antibiotics for Lymes, but now she's had a lesser dose, for half the time that one will be off the list. It's why the redness faded but the first GP dismissed my argument that antibiotics would only have had an effect if an infection was present and perhaps that needed to be looked at even if it wasn't Lyme Disease. There were also a couple of feverish cold/flu days but we'd all had various summer holiday viruses.

The incidents are on the rise; this is not a good year to be bitten and still it's something that GPs aren't looking for. If not found she could have become quite unwell in odd and non-specific ways. I've nursed people with it as an underlying condition, complicating their other treatments. A blood test and antibiotics is all it takes to cure most people.

[mrsfuzzy]

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