So it’s official that I have Lyme Disease 🐞 …

It sounds so scary — and some people who don’t get treated when the disease is either misdiagnosed or goes undetected — it can be scary. But honestly, as we inch closer to 2020, the treatment and recovery for early-detect Lyme Disease is trivial with basic, inexpensive doxycycline antibiotics.

I will be on a dose of doxycycline, twice a day for 21 days — a slightly longer treatment then the default 14-day one, as it’s been about a month since the initial bite, and they don’t want the bacteria, more extensively spread in the body, to mutate before the antibotics have a full chance to kill them off. 💊Antibiotics are pretty amazing products from health science — you take a pill and in a few days you start to feel better and within a couple of weeks it’s like the infection never happened.

Probably the most obnoxious thing is you can’t consume milk or dairy products (e.g. cheese and butter) while taking doxycline and similar antibiotics. Apparently modest amounts of alcohol are permissible but dairy can bind to the antibotics, blocking their uptake. Beer is fine, but not the beverage of the gods – milk. 🐮 I guess only around the time you take the drug, so it’s not a complete ban on drinking milk.

The whole process would have been a lot worse, had I not gotten a bullseye rash, and could be in an out of the doctor’s office in an hour and a half. I didn’t need to be tested for Lyme as the rash is symptomatic — along with myself spotting an removing the tick, there is no question that I have Lyme. 🎯 The doctor inspected the bullseye rash, listened to my symptoms and when I got sick, wrote the script and sent me on the way after handing the receptionist my $25 payment.

It probably would have been quicker, had I an appointment with my regular doctor, but he was moving and closed for three weeks, so I ended up visiting the local urgent care center. 🏥 Not urgent for sure — I waited an hour and fifteen minutes after opening to get in and see the doctor, but it was fine — I had my phone to play with while I waited and watched some Youtube videos.