I get sick with every tick bite, do you?

I was diagnosed in 2000 after tick bite left bullseye rash and many symptoms sent me to doctors for help. every time I pull a tick off me I get all the same symptoms, except rash, what do I do?

3 wks ago I didn't get the head but I continued to try and got it fairly quickly. I read on the cdc to remove with tweezwers close to the skin/head as possible and pull up, that's how I did it. I always feel some symptoms after finding a tick but this time its worse. I went to the care center a week ago and will be going back I think. fever etc and im taking ceftin 500 for the 8th day. my head and neck and joints are so painful. can you advise me as what course of treatment would help me? im so glad to find your forum, nobody understands.

I seem to get a lot of bull's-eye rashes with tick bites.

If you're being treated with abx when you get the tick bites, you should be ok. But you need to talk to your LLMD.

I get the rashes when I'm not being treated.

Margaret

So you may have gotten some of the contents of the tick in you before you got the head out. There are tick removal tools that they say does a better job. One is called "Tick Twister".

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