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A single prophylactic 200mg dose of Doxycyline prevents Lyme disease

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Post by grepfru_it »

sul_tasto wrote: post #120
grepfru_it wrote: post #97

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Once I was actively taking doxycycline when I went for a walk through the woods with some friends. After the walk I took a shower and made sure a tick didn’t catch a ride. Put my clothes back on and flew home the next day. Fast forward a week, I’m hanging at my in-laws house when I scratch my leg and feel something off. Pull my pants up and there’s a tick, but it looks flat. My nurse sister jumps into action and twee…

I wonder if you shook your clothes out before putting them back on.

I did! But that’s likely how it made its way onto me

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Post by bladegash »

saalweachter wrote: post #98
bladegash wrote: post #52

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Interesting! Took doxy for months at a time, with a year being the longest ever taken it. The US military uses it as Malaria prophylaxis, so can end up taking it for a pretty significant amount of time. Never really had an side effects I can recall, but was in my early 20s at the time as well.

Do you recall the doseage?

Unfortunately I don’t - it was over a decade ago at this point. They were pretty large blue/turquoise gel capsules though.

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Post by dzhiurgis »

Enginerrrd wrote: post #32
xmonkee wrote: post #29

Is there an app that can alert me when I'm in a tick-infested area? I don't think about ticks living in CA and I'm deadly afraid of being on a vacation and going on a hike and getting bit.

We definitely have ticks with Lyme in CA. I live up north and my county is a bit of a hot spot actually. If you do get bit, don't panic. Typically the tick has to be attached for greater than 24hours before you are at risk since transmission usually occurs when the tick has to regurgitate digested blood back into you. I've been bit too many times to count while surveying and doing site visits to hike creek beds in th…

Here I am looking for this post - found a tick on my kid this morning!
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