My mother emailed me the other day, saying that she had found this year's first tick attached. Afterwards she had felt fever-like, and took her temperature to 39 degrees Celcius. She called the telephone doctor who told her to contact our family doctor who then gave her a receipt for 3*10 tablets. She started taking those and said she felt long-term symptoms lesser, mainly fatigue. I asked her to write me a status report, and I just received it. Notice that everything she mentions has persisted from before the recent tick-bite. She has been very exposed to ticks, in the same small area as earlier years. It would make sense if the same rodents or deer are regulars around that area, and that no significant load of new infections have moved into the area.
Here's her description:
"I'm feeling very clear-minded, well rested and fresher then before I took the penicillin. It has scratched a bit at the spot where the little black one sat, but the red spot has gotten smaller. I feel that I can overcome more than before, where I was heavy and tired in my arms for example, I am still a bit sore ther, in both arms, but nothing significant at all, probably because I'm sitting down writing. Now I can turn my head to the left also, without any pain! Prior to taking the penicillin, there were periods where I couldn't turn my head without pain. I also breathe without a feeling of having a stuffy nose. The issue with loose bowels also seems to be over, and I continue to drink A38 (means: yoghurt with added bacillus acidophilus, which we then both currently use), approximately 1-1.5 liters per day. At 10 PM I have to take a penicillin tablet again along with the A38. Then I have taken all three for today."
DA:
Min mor skrev at hun havde årets første flåtbid. Efterfølgende havde hun taget sin temperatur til over 39 grader. Hun fik en recept på ti dages penicillin som hun pt tager. Jeg bad hende skrive om effekten. Bemærk at de aftagende symptomer er fra før det aktuelle flåtbid. Altså kan der være tale om en langvarig, overset infektion, som nu bliver påvirket af antibiotikaen. Det foruroligende er, at hvis dette er tilfældet, så vil symptomerne formentlig vende tilbage efter 'kuren', hvis altså man skæver til tendenserne fra den praktiske erfaring fra klinikker overalt i verden.
"Jeg føler mig meget klar i hovedet, udsovet og udhvilet og mere frisk end før jeg tog penicellin. Det har kløet lidt på det sted hvor den lille sorte sad, men den røde knop er
blevet mindre. Jeg føler jeg kan overkomme mere end før, hvor jeg var tung og træt i bl.a. armene, der er jeg lidt øm endnu i begge arme, men slet ikke noget at tale om, vel fordi jeg sidder og skriver. Nu kan jeg dreje hovedet også til venstre uden det gør spor ondt! før penicellinen var der perioder hvor jeg slet ikke kunne dreje hovedet uden det gjorde ondt. Jeg trækker også vejret helt uden nogen følelse af at være ret stoppet i næsen. Og så er hurdlen med tynd mave v. afføring vist også overstået, og jeg fortsætter med at bælle A 38 i mig, sådan ca. 1 -1½ l. i døgnet. Kl. 22 skal jeg tage en penicellin tablet igen sammen med A 38. Så har jeg taget alle tre i dag."
