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In a message dated 7/3/05 10:15:10 AM Eastern Daylight Time, jeanneg writes:

 

 

What's especially frustrating is that just last month I had a probable case of Rocky Mtn spotted fever that my body DID handle, and very well, too--tick bite that turned almost black, then icky looking red/black/purple spots on my foot, wretched headaches. However, it had set in on the Thursday before a holiday weekend (Memorial Day), so I knew no doctor would see me until the following Tuesday. But by Tuesday, everything had returned to normal, so I didn't visit a doctor for it. I honestly thought my immune system had returned to its former healthy self--so the hcv blood test result was a blow. And no doubt adding to my "mental poisoning" thing.

 

 

It's interesting, but of all the things to be talking around my breakfast table with some relatives this morning, who are in the medical field, Tick bites of the Rocky Mountain Variety type came up. I am told that medical intervention is very important (by way of antibiotics), to deal with it. Apparently 15% of the people who are infected, can have very dire consequences. I don't know what an hcv blood test is, but I thought that I would pass on the information about medical intervention for the tick bites.

 

Paulina

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In a message dated 7/3/05 12:31:15 PM Eastern Daylight Time, jeanneg writes:

 

 

Hi, Paulina, could you elaborate more on the "dire consequences"? I had presumed that since the symptoms had gone, I was ok.

 

HCV=hepatitis C virus

 

 

 

Hi Jeannie: The family memebers left so I can't ask them now, but from our general conversation of tick bites, I understand that not all tick bites cause a rash, but that Rocky Mountain Spotted one usually does, and what it means is that if left untreated, 15% of folks....how should I say this....."not make it"....die?

 

I know that I have been tested for lyme desease despite not having any tick rashes, apparently it stays in your system, and can be successfully treated with antibiotics, since it is a bacterial infection. It can stay untreated in your system, causing all sorts of arthritis type symptoms, among others that I am not very familiar with. If I were you (and I am not giving you my advice), but I would have a specific blood test that would check for the antibodies that might have been stimulated in your body, for lyme disease (or whatever else it might be).

 

Dire = death (according to my relative occurs in 15% of people infected with the Rocky Mountain Spotted fever tick bite.

Paulina

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In a message dated 7/3/05 12:31:15 PM Eastern Daylight Time, jeanneg writes:

 

HCV=hepatitis C virus

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In a message dated 7/3/05 12:31:15 PM Eastern Daylight Time, jeanneg writes:

 

HCV=hepatitis C virus

 

Shoot....sorry for the premature send again.

 

From my limited understanding, Hepatitis C appears to be a silent epidemic in the US