Possible Signs with a tick bite: Your first three to thirty days after experiencing a bite from a tick carrying Borrelia burgdorferi will result in several symptoms which may include one or more of the following:
• Flu-Like Symptoms
Flu-like symptoms that include sweats, joint pain, fatigue, muscle aches, chills, and fever.
• The ‘Bulls-Eye’ Rash
So-called bulls eye rash which may appear on any part of the body. The term “bull’s eye” is used to describe the rash that looks like a bull’s eye on a dart board. The area which has been bitten by the tick is red and the edges look a bit swollen.
This rash feels warm when touched although reports of it being painful or itchy are rare. However, some people develop a different kind of rash, while others do not see any rash on their skin at all.
Months After the Tick Bite
A few months after the tick bite, more symptoms will often appear. They may include:
• Additional bulls eye rash on any part of the body
• Neck stiffness
• Severe headaches
• Severe pain and swelling of the joints
• Facial drooping
• Irregular heart palpitations
• Pain in the nerves, muscles, tendons, and bones
• Shortness of breath
• Dizziness
• Shooting pain in the lower and upper extremities
Some people infected with Lyme disease may also develop:
• Eye inflammation
• Fever
• Fatigue
• Liver inflammation.
However, these symptoms are not as common and rarely occur. More symptoms of this sort are common on various other insect bites that carry the bacteria. Many have no idea of their presence and they have similar symptoms of other diseases, so they are overlooked by the medical profession.
Almost every ailment that you have had at one time or another can be traced back to these bacteria, called Lyme Disease Spirochete. I will compile a list for you to look over and see if you have any of these symptoms.
For those of you who think a blood test will give you answers, it is very unpredictable on the blood test results.
Keep an open eye to the following Symptoms of Lyme Disease
• Unusual chills, fever, sweats or flushing
• Unusual weight loss or gain
• Unusual hair loss
• Tiredness, lack of stamina, fatigue
• Swollen glands
• Throat sore
• Pelvic Pain or testicle pain
• Bladder irritable or poor function
• Unusual menstrual irregularity
• Sexual – loss of libido, dysfunction
• Abdominal pains or poor digestion
• Regularity changes- diarrhea, constipation
• Sore ribs or pain in chest
• Pulse skips
• Pain or swelling in joints: Which ones?
• Breast Pain, unexplained milk production
• Joint and back stiffness
• Muscle twitching: especially in face
• Hear or feel cracking when turning neck
• Cramps or pain in muscles
• Neck pain or stiffness
• Headache
• Blurry Vision, sensitive to light
• Ear pain, sensitive to sounds
• Occasional Vertigo, poor balance
• Sudden need to lie down or sit
• Suddenly unable to spell simple works
• Short term memory poor
• Concentration difficulties
• Getting lost, hard to find car in parking lot
• Mood swings, feeling anger, depression
• Sleep disturbances – Wake early etc.
• Tremors
• Swollen tissue, rashes, oozing fluid
• More sensitive to alcoholic drinks, exaggerated, worst hangover
• Knee, hip, shoulder joint replacement
• Sleep Apnea
• Muscle twisting and pulling in late stages
• Rheumatoid arthritis, joint pain, swelling of joints