You might have been bitten by a tick, mosquito or a flea and contracted Lymes disease. Sometimes ticks leave a mark on the skin that looks like a single red circle that grows larger and other times it may look like a bull's eye and other times you may not have even noticed anything on the skin. Many times after a tick bites you, it may not be painful or itchy, yet you know you do not feel well.

Sometimes after a tick bites, you may have a fever or chills, a headache, extreme fatigue, aches and swollen glands. If symptoms are mild and no treatment is done, then the infections can grow into more areas of the body and brain. If unexplained rashes start showing up, your face starts drooping, larger joints hurt more, you get sharper pains in the nerve, your heart starts beating irregular or your neck gets stiffer with headaches, then you may have Lymes.

This is a condition that normally gets worse over time and has over a 500,000 people diagnosed per year which is fraction of the reported cases that actually develop this condition. Many people have symtpoms and do not know why they have all of the symptoms that they have, they just know they do not feel good and have no energy to deal with their health.

We have had many patients not only get tested for Lymes, yet get the treatments that help them get better through our office. If you suspect that you may have any of the above symptoms, then you need to make an appointment to go through your history, to find out if you may have Lymes disease.

Management Team - Dr Harvey Abrams