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Tyranthraxus posted...

I mean if you go to a doctor and say "I feel ill and I also pulled a tick off me yesterday" and they don't test for Lyme disease they need to not be a doctor anymore.

True enough, but a lot of people will end up missing the tick, don't get the infamous "bullseye rash," etc. Maybe some aren't knowledgeable enough to know about the potential dangers of tick bites so they just remove the tick and that's that. Out of sight, out of mind. I would also imagine that symptoms wouldn't appear right away, at least nothing major. Maybe you would end up with a slight fever, but nothing that would give you pause and make you rush to a doctor right away.

Then later on when you have general malaise and are struggling to function and testing can find nothing wrong, it's more than likely just going to be labelled as psychosomatic rather than being assumed to be the Lyme Disease bacteria at work. Maybe it even gets wrongly diagnosed as something else entirely. A lot of doctors really aren't very knowledgeable about this stuff still. They will just order basic testing to try to rule out different things but that's about it. Then the longer it takes to identify and treat, the more damage is done. It's honestly quite scary.
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