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Lived in Kansas my whole life with ticks a common part of summer time. This past week after following protocol- long pants with long sleeved shirt plus heavy DEET spraying and I ended up with 20 plus ticks with 13 actually attached.
Less than 12 hours later I had a splitting headache with flu like symptoms.
Only 2 bites were abnormal looking and were painful to touch.
My Dr. told me to go straight to the Emergency Room. Blood serum doesn’t show tick disease for approximately 7-10 days later! So quick action by drs are important.
I do NOT have Alpha-gal syndrome. There are SEVERAL other serious diseases that Lone Star ticks carry. I am on 14 days of Doxycycline and had a shot. I have been seen twice and they are closely monitoring me. I will have the serum testing this week.
They suspect a tick fever (RMSF) or Ehrlichiosis .
Everyone is panicking over the meat allergy and there are other diseases that are serious.
Just wanted to share for awareness because the sooner your seen after symptoms start the better!!

**Ticks were in Eastern KS /Coffey County

After a crazy bumpy road I had my gallbladder removed a week ago.
I was sent to the ER January 1 from urgent care. I couldn’t take deep breaths and had severe pain between my shoulder blades so they thought it was my heart. But I couldn’t stand any pressure on the right side of my abdomen. Heart is perfect ❤️
Each attack I had excruciating pain that was almost immobilizing to the point of passing out, and it did feel like shards of glass was passing through me and Sweat would just break out all over my body with severe shakes, and some attacks would go on for hours. I would think I needed to use the restroom, but nothing ever happened.
CAT scan with contrast gallbladder look fine no stones. Small focal spot on liver. Ultrasound everything looked great focal spot no longer visible no sludge or stones. Endoscopy everything looked great. Blood work positive ASMA and very high copper in my liver. But my other liver enzymes were all good so instead of doing a biopsy, for autoimmune hepatitis, we would wait and check liver again this summer. Thank you insurance company for that decision.
The attacks started becoming a daily thing with or without food, but I had zero diarrhea just excruciating pain. My Gastroenterologist was not giving up and ordered the HIDA scan and it showed I was an overachiever. I had almost 100% ejection rate. Referred to a surgeon and saw him two days later and within a week it was out. I had a very sick gallbladder pathologically.
I wanted to share this because for years I had debilitating random attacks each CAT scan or ultrasound were always good and clear just probably indigestion doctors said.
Listen to your body!! keep pursuing until you find a doctor that listens! my gallbladder had chronic cholecystitis with cholesterolosis and metaplastic changes. The walls were .8 cm thick and had fat scattered throughout the whole interior.
This was a precursor to cancer, which is rare in the gallbladder. But can happen from chronic inflammation and malfunction overtime.
So don’t give up! I am recovering and I am adjusting to a new way of eating lol after years with chronic constipation I’m now on the other end of the spectrum. But at least that troublemaker is gone at last!

Tick Disease Is REAL