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my husband took a long time to find out what was wrong. started with a flu like symptoms, dr gave some meds, was still ill after a week went back and was given an antibiotic, felt better for about 12 or 15 days and was sick again. thought it was some type of flu, then feared worse, after 5 months of dr apts and antibiotics they found rocky mountain spotted fever from tick bite
symptoms were
fatigue / weakness
stomach felt up set
then head started to ache
then felt cold and started to shake
night sweats ( bad)
could not eat
memory lost (could not recall as well)
his spots on lasted 6 hr on his lower legs
lost 30 lbs down to 159 lbs
this was off and on some days he felt fine
but the night sweats got worse
finely got him to let me take his temp and found he did have a fever
even though he said he didn't
was sent to an ID Dr.
takes a special blood test 2 draws 1 hr apart to compare the antibodies
it has been sometime ago he still has some symptoms, took 5 months to
find out he had it even though he told dr he had tick bite, his bite healed to well
your dr could just give you 14 days of doxycycline it is the only on that works from what i have read
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