If I really do have Lymes Disease....

[sam6386]

If I really do have Lymes Disease, and caught it late, lets say 6 months after, could it be too late for antibiotics to work? When is it too late for anti-biotics to work, associated with Lymes disease, (Doxycycline) (I am not sure If I spelled it right.) And yesterday I had bad jaw pains (have been on and off for a few weeks) and both sides of my head have been hurting (close to the temple, on each side) I have also been very achy from knee down. Any advice on anything? Or opinions? I would be so greatful. I just started medicine recently...

[sam6386]

Thank you for your help you have given me in the past and now...I am visiting my Doctor in about a half hour...from all of this and other things going on I have had so much anxiety. I will ask her if I could check the test out and maybe write down a few things and ask you a few questions if you don't mind. Do you know when these symptoms usually come? days? weeks? months? years? Will people be cured from Lymes, fully?
Again Thank you.

[SOONERMOM]

There are many people who are diagnosed YEARS after becoming sick.  It is difficult to diagnose lyme disease, it took me about 7 months.  I never had a bullseye rash either.  

I  know one form of bartonella ( a co-infection) can cause shin pain.  

It is always better to be treated right away, but many if not most of us weren't because of a delayed diagnosis.  I think all of us have seen improvement on antibiotics, regardless of time actually infected.  You have to give it time and a few weeks isn't enough.  I actually got more symptoms when I first started the doxycycline, but the eventually got better and finally took away many of my other symptoms.  

You might want to look into a LLMD because they will treat you more long term and  provide other valuable information about co-infections, herxing, supplementation, etc.

I have read that bands 31 and 34 are indicative of a longer infection (like a year) and I had both and one was a ++++.  

Once you have had this a while there isn't a quick fix and you just have to take one day at a time, but there definitely is hope.  I am much more functional that I was while undiagnosed.  It isn't like any common infection where 7 to 10 days of antibiotic will provide a cure.   Hopefully your Dr. is going to treat you for a while.

[sam6386]

I meant I CAN'T re-call any kind of rash like that...

[sam6386]

what if it has been a year could it be too late? I am kind of going crazy here because I have had no rash that I can re-call looking like any "bulls eye" rash. and have had muscle pains from knee down, neck and upper back bothering me and now the sides of my temple hurting and jaw pain... does this happen in the early stages? late stages? or either? I am afraid if it was caught too late or something and teh anti-biotics might not work? also I posted a few weeks ago here on how I had tonsillitious and swollen glands in my neck they seemed to go away with different anti-biotics I was prescribed Augmentin875 a few weeks ago, then switched to the Doxycycline very very recently.