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My sister-in-law's husband started feeling bad the first day of their vacation. He went to the ER and they diagnosed it as coming down with the flu. He did not improve so they came home and he went to the doctor in Huntsville and they put him in the hospital.
They discovered a bite from something on his leg that sounded like a brown recluse at first but he's not gotten any better. They have four antibiotics going into him, he has broken out in a red rash all over and cannot stand for anybody to touch him. His joints ache, too.
They are stumped. Do any of you have any idea what it could be?
Many thanks.
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Don't know about Lyme but I would gamble that whatever it is came from a tick.
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Yeah, or something tick.
Joint pain/flu like/rash, all very tick like.
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I believe we are about to move into a phase of all sorts of disturbing/unknown diseases from emerging and new species of insects.
And who the heck knows what's coming across borders now.
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The first sign of anything 'really' contagious flying around, I'm quitting the bus job and staying home for 6 months.
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The red rash isn't typical for a spider bite or ticks. Or bee stings. Sounds like he may be allergic to whatever it was......
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Ticks around here don't fall off by themselves. So if he didn't see a tick attached, that may be iffy.
No idea, hope he gets better fast though.
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Or the antibiotics they are giving him
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I had tick fever 10 years ago And have never recovered 100 percent. That was kind of my symtoms.
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Prayer sent for Larry's complete, and rapid, recovery.
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Don't mean to be an alarmist, but have they done any blood work?
My sister-in-law experienced something similar, turned out to be leukemia.
Again, don't mean to cause extra concern, but something to look at.
Prayers sent for Larry.
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As crazy as it might sound, I would zap the bite area with a stun gun. Google it up.
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Where were they? If they were in the Caribbean there is a nasty bug down there that has those systems and if the South, it could be he was bitten by that "new" mosquito. Both have those systems. Sorry for him.
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Ain't a doc, but my first guess would be something autoimmune related to a tick bite.
Brazos- wife's boss had a rash and seemed to constantly be under the weather. Leukimia. Cancer flat sucks.
Hope what ever it is runs its course and he's back to feeling well.
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Prayes for him and wisdom for his doctors.
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....... he has broken out in a red rash all over and cannot stand for anybody to touch him...... Prayers sent.....you guys get west nile down your way? You can get a rash from that.
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