I’m on the coast of NC—definitely NOT the northeast. Like you, we’re overrun with deer and ticks. We have a lot of people, many I know personally, that have/had Lyme. Drs are very resistant to that fact, to the point where some of the persons have gone to Duke. The drs there take a look and go, “Yeah, youve got Lyme. Even when meds are prescribed, often it’s not for a long enough time. It seems to be an ongoing battle to be able to get/take antibiotics. Almost lost a friend because drs refused to give him the antibiotics he needed. He still has problems, much like being bitten by a black widow or a brown recluse, the lingering after symptoms are worse than the actual disease/bite/whatever. And—the bites are not always accompanied by a bull’s eye and the symptoms can take years to manifest.
One of my dad’s dogs has lyme. I worry about it being transmissible—dog to person.
Take care.
There are several doctors who are making breakthroughs in treatment. They are taking Lyme seriously and treating it seriously. Every time my Lyme takes a turn and poses a new problem, which it has done 2 or 3 times, they gather all of the information that they can and structure a new or additional course of treatment that has worked every time, so far.
Please let me know if I can be of assistance to anyone.