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Message: [QUOTE="jibsey, post: 3249792, member: 859"] I’ve been bitten 3 times by ticks carrying Lyme. The first time I literally collapsed onto my couch with severe flu like symptoms about 8 days after the bite which I didn’t know happened at the time but traced it back to yard work in shorts that I did. The rash was noticed only 8 days after. Ran to a doctor. Took the Doxy, the blood work still came out negative which doctors say is common early. Got better. The other 2 times I noticed the bullseye rash and took Doxycycline right away more or less on my own, I wasn’t waiting around. Today the regimen is taking a single dose of 200mg within 72 hours of tick removal as prophylaxis. I feel very bad for those who didn’t take the medicine for whatever reason and have symptoms. Some of those symptoms can be caused by diseases other than tick bites but my feeling is that if you even suspect that it was a tick bite, take a Doxy because what is the down side? [/QUOTE]