Lyme Disease

March 29, 2008

Hello everyone!

Today I took my Shetland Sheepdog, Skye to the vet for

his annual exam and vaccine boosters. He had tested

positive for Lyme disease a little over a year ago.

He was put on antibiotic treatment. Today when they

did the test, the vet tech came in to give the results

to the vet while she was examining Skye. She said the

Lyme test was positive and that there was neuroplasma.

I don't know what this means but it sounds scary!

They have to send the blood off to a lab for a C6

ELISA test. Then they will know the titer and call to

do antibiotic treatment again. He isn't symptomatic

and he is very healthy which she said was a good

thing. I don't know if anyone else has ever

experienced anything like this? I was wondering if I

have to be worried about my health as I am on

immunosuppressants and DMARDS? The vet had stated that

a friend of hers had a dog with Lyme disease and a few

months later her friend had cyclical fevers and Lyme

symptoms. She now has Lupus, and her Dr. thinks that

most likely she was infected by her dog. The vet told

me that in order for me to get Lyme disease I would

have to get a bite from the same deer tick that had

bitten Skye. She said the chance of that happening

was very very rare. We think that he got this when he

lived in Connecticut as they have a lot of ticks

there. It is only recently that our area on Lake

Michigan have began to have outbreaks. Only 2 dogs

have Lyme disease, so we conclude that he probably had

it even before they began testing the dogs here. My

other dogs have tested negative thus far and am hoping

when the black lab goes next month she is fine as

well. My rheumatologist did do a Lyme test on myself

last year after I advised that one of my dogs had come

down with the disease.

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