Does anyone have experience with a diagnosis of Lyme that is easily resolved with a standard course of an antibiotic for 21 days?
I need to figure out if I should have DS2 follow just that, as prescribed by our pediatrician’s office. I would have him re-examined soon, to see if his joint pain has gotten better. OR do I get him in with the best Lyme Literate specialist, as soon as I can??
The regular treatment has to work for most people right? Maybe I just don’t know them. Or, maybe it’s usually no big deal, and that’s why we don’t hear easy, normal Lyme stories? I browse the boards sporadically now. But I was regular enough for long enough to have a very thorough education in the debilitating (and controversial) effects of Lyme. I was super well-informed 7 summers ago, when DS1 had Lyme. “Fortunately” my pediatrician had recently watched a relative suffer from undiagnosed Lyme and “regular” medicine failed her. He considered DS1’s blood test to be positive for Lyme, though his colleagues wouldn’t have. DS1 didn’t have any symptoms (besides a little lump on the back of his head) until after he finished the 1st round round of Doxycycline. He ended up fully recovered - after 6 months of facial tics, brain fog, exhaustion, cognitive gaps, and some strange, involuntary physical movements.
We just found out DS2 tested positive for Lyme, with similar test results (that not every doctor would consider worth treating). We took him to the dr because the complaints about different body parts hurting were incessant. I thought he was either faking or we needed to see an orthopedic dr., or maybe a psychiatrist/therapist. He’s had some aches & pains leftover from a sport he did for most of his life, so not all the discomfort was new.
This is complicated more because DS2 is supposed to go to overnight camp, for 7 weeks, in about 10 days!
One thing I know for sure is that I can’t send him to camp, which is like his lifeblood, if I won’t be able to take him out & back into their “Covid Bubble.” As much as I like the camp medical staff, I know I need our eyes & professional hands on him, to make sure he is healing.