Harper has Lyme Disease

The year F-kap had lyme I would find a tick on me almost every other day:cry:. I'm so sorry for any human or furkid that has to suffer through this horrible sickness. My thoughts and prayers go out to all of you with tick problems.:hugs
 
danisgoat said:
I just got diagnosed a week ago. It is rough this year in Jersey.

My thoughts are with Harper.
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Daneille,

What were your symptoms of Lyme? Oh I hope you are okay soonest.

Harper is playing with her sister again, it has been a week since she tolerated play. Her meds seem to be kicking in I think. She is still bitchy but that is her natural state.:biggrin2:

Big hugs,

Kate
 
famous seamus said:
Daneille,

What were your symptoms of Lyme? Oh I hope you are okay soonest.

Harper is playing with her sister again, it has been a week since she tolerated play. Her meds seem to be kicking in I think. She is still bitchy but that is her natural state.:biggrin2:

Big hugs,

Kate
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So glad that Harper is back to playing. When my Chloe had Lyme, we had a really hard time getting her back to normal. It took a few rounds of Doxy and lots of chiro.

I am just tired right now, but that could be Lyme or life :gaah

My symptoms were a low grade fever, achy, tired and a big nasty bullseye rash. i was lucky to have all the classic symptoms.

Thanks for asking and I hope that Harper continues to get better.
 
I'm sorry to hear about Harper, Kate. We've had dogs, horses and people with Lyme...it's not fun. Poor Barkley has had it since he was a puppy and has recurring flare-ups every year, even without a tick bite. Fortunately, he always presents the same way with lameness and lethargy and now I keep the doxycycline in the house so I can start him right away. At least that usually gives them very quick improvement. I hope the same is true with Harper!
 
I have Lyme and my canine, 7-yr-old female sheltie has lyme, too.

The tests, first off, can be all over the place so even if the test shows you don't have it, listen to your body. You will start having achy joints, tense shoulders, hot flashes/night sweats, tingles in parts of your body, vertigo, all kinds of things. It's known as the masking disease because any symptom you can think of, you'll have. Lyme is a tricky one because it stays dormant for months, even years, hiding out deep inside you and even crossing the blood-brain barrier. The reason it hides so well on the blood test is because it doesn't always hide in your blood. It's cyclical so it hides out sometimes and also the way it gets so deep into you is it turns off you immune system, allowing it to no longer respond to foreign invaders, so you're no longer making antibodies to attack it, you're just letting all the viruses like Shingles, Epstein Barr, all the herpes viruses, etc flare up. So it's important to get a viral panel done, if you have insurance, so you can know if you have viruses before you start doing antibiotics. I am treating it all holistically and I've been on it four months. So far, it's been way more good days than bad so I can't complain.

The good news is it's much easier to treat in canines. Ledum worked fabulous for us. My dog had a limp for 3-4 weeks, I got diagnosed during that time coincidentally and after 3 days on ledum she stopped. She had one flare up about a month later, around the full moon -- watch for cycles -- and the ledum took it away in one day.

I would suggest finding a doctor who is versed in Lyme. If they tell you a couple weeks antibiotics will cure it, and you didn't catch it soon after the bite, you better run.

Email me if you would like to ask me anything as I know a lot about this awful disease. and make note when you have Lyme you have parasites, viruses, all kinds of issues that must all be addressed before one can even attempt to fight the actual spirochetes.
 
Ugh. Hate ticks.

I have one that was super symptomatic, high temp, lameness, and didn't eat. One Doxy pill later and he was back to his old self. He did a 28 day round and has tested negative several times since.

I have another that tested positive once, we didn't treat, and she has since tested negative several times.

Stupid bugs and their stupid diseases. :mad:
 
danisgoat said:
So glad that Harper is back to playing. When my Chloe had Lyme, we had a really hard time getting her back to normal. It took a few rounds of Doxy and lots of chiro.

I am just tired right now, but that could be Lyme or life :gaah

My symptoms were a low grade fever, achy, tired and a big nasty bullseye rash. i was lucky to have all the classic symptoms.

Thanks for asking and I hope that Harper continues to get better.
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Why I have had those symptoms all my life!:lol: No kidding I have read all the symptoms in this forum and I will be darned if I don't think that I too have the bug disease.

Have tagged base with sheltie rescue and they are seeing a high incidence since last year, of lyme. They cautioned that high agression in your dog is a symptom and a warning that it may be lyme. As I have said Harper has food agression but this agression was different and nasty. Those nasty symptoms of agression have faded.

I will be posting on general dog chat section later on today about Bridey's visit with the heart specialist.

It's always something, yes?

Hugs,
Kate
 
Lots of bugs and Lyme disease. I am sorry to hear about Harper, all positive thoughts that he continues to progress to good health.

Dani, OMG I hope you recover.

Darn bugs are crazy. I open the door and something flies in uninvited. I have things for bugs hanging from my lights.

We have lots and lots of those tiny little sweat bees. Haven't seen a sign of ticks yet around my house yet.
 
Well, more bad news about lyme disease is that Doxycycline has become VERY expensive and it has been the drug of choice for our veterinary practice to tx lyme . Pretty sure this is nation wide, don't know about Canada...:(
 
famous seamus said:
Have tagged base with sheltie rescue and they are seeing a high incidence since last year, of lyme. They cautioned that high agression in your dog is a symptom and a warning that it may be lyme. As I have said Harper has food agression but this agression was different and nasty. Those nasty symptoms of agression have faded.
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VERY true!

Vinca snapped at a friend's kid with us right there (it was not provoked) which never happened before. Very uncharacteristic of her. Since we immediately realized that it was odd behavior for her (she normally just lifts her lips at other dogs, never with people). She normally is great with other kids and LOVES our kids. We took her for a test the next day and she had Lyme. Within 48 hours of Doxy, she was back to her butt wiggling happy self.

Personally, I tried to bite my MIL's head off today. Didn't work. I am blaming it on the Lymes :-)
 
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