Relapse? Immune system kicking on? ABX withdrawal?

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Each multiplication of borrelia takes 12-24 hours in vitro. That

doesnt necessarily tell you what it is in vivo, but I am not aware of

any very significant vitro/vivo differences in bacterial

generation times).

Was he engorged somewhat, or " flat " ? Why do you particularly think

that Thursday?

I dont know how long such ticks generally stay on you, but the one

time I had a fully engorged one, I had fairly good reason to think it

had been on for a week or 10 days.

Of course, what you got sick with that day could have been a

different microbe than the one you stayed sick with. But I think even

most viruses have an incubation time measured in days. Yet the tick

seems unlikely to be coincidental.

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The reason I thought I picked up the tick the Thursday before I found

it was just that I had not been outside on Wed. The fact that I

started to feel sick shortly after I thought I was bitten is one

reason my LLMD has thought the test of the tick itself was accurate --

this tick probably did not carry spirochetes. BUT, the saliva of a

female lonestar tick (which it was) has been documented to cause

paralysis in children, and he thought that could have caused my

rather immediate neurologic symptoms, as well as sufficient trauma to

cause a relapse of the original illness. The other symptoms came on

more slowly -- the parathesias began about 1 month after this tick

bite, the meningitis and absence of energy began another month after

that, and the tremors another month after that.

The tick in 1990 HAD been fully engorged and on the nape of my neck

for at least 7 days. I felt it there the day after I'd been hiking

in the woods, but this was 1990 -- and I thought it was a pimple and

was just waiting for it to go away.

Thank you again for your ideas.

Tempe