Stage 2: Early disseminated infection (1 to 4 months) In some cases of Lyme disease, the person does not notice any symptoms during this stage. * Lack of energy, which is the most common symptom. Some people with Lyme disease will have flu-like symptoms with or without a rash. įor people who live in areas where Lyme disease most often occurs-in the United States along the Atlantic coast, the Midwest, and parts of Oregon and California-the circular rash can be a sign of Lyme disease, especially when it appears during the summer months. about half the people infected with Lyme disease develop a rash within 1 to 4 weeks.1 See a picture of a Lyme disease rash. Other people don't have any symptoms in the early stages of Lyme disease and do not remember having had a tick bite. The rash is usually circular and it gets larger over time. Some people with Lyme disease have a rash (called erythema migrans) at the site of the tick bite. Stage 1: Early localized infection (1 to 4 weeks)
There are three stages of Lyme disease: early localized, early disseminated, and late persistent. If Lyme disease is left untreated, it may progress in stages from mild symptoms to serious, long-term disabilities. The following is from this URL: /tc/lyme-disease-symptoms
With regards to (b), some people don't seem to develop CNS problems with Lyme but CNS involvement can happen very rapidly, even a couple of weeks after the bite. Unfortunately, in most cases the answer to (a) is a couple to a few weeks, from what I've been able to ascertain from literature.
However, I think what you're asking is (a) how long does it take for the spirochetes to leave the bloodstream and begin to penetrate the body tissues, making it more difficult to treat in general, and (b) how long after that might the spirochetes invade the central nervous system, making it very much more difficult to fully recover. I really don't think that there is a cut-and-dried formula to answer the question. Perhaps only the spirochetes know that answer to that exact formula! dosage, in order to have the optimum chance of recovery. I just thought I'd throw this time frame thing out to the members in order to gather opinions, anecdotal findings, research estimates or facts - whatever the case may be.Īnd I really wish it were as simple as having my doctor tell me that if I've had Lyme for a year, then I MUST take_kind of ABX for _amount of months and at _mg. So.where do I now 'stand' in the ZONE of success or failure at beating Lyme that was untreated for 12 months? Using myself as an example, I ESTIMATE (given the onset of symptoms) that I was infected a year ago and took no antibiotics during that year. or has unfortunately reached the danger zone where a longer more complex 'fight' against the disease is surely going to be the case. These are probably 'kettle of fish' questions, the answers being individual to each infected person and their eventual treatment protocol.īut it does seem plausible that there would be a time frame of some sort- a cut off point where an infected, untreated person either still stands a very good chance of recovering. Become likely to recurr after seemingly successful treatment with abx? (no co-infections) how long, how many months or years of infection does it take- if you are undiagnosed and untreated with abx- for the disease to:Ĭ. In other words: Starting from day one (the tick bite itself) of being infected with Lyme B. All the research I've been doing has become a blur now- leaving me with the same burning and unanswered question: How long is too long?
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