First, they have to be deer tick botes. Deer ticks are smaller than regular ticks. Now, I am not an outdoorsman, and I almost always wear long sleeved shirts and do not own a pair of shorts. I always wear socks. When I lived in this wooded town in eastern CT, I went from the house to the car, from the car to the house. Nonetheless, my tick bite went undetected for sometime, as it was the back of my thigh.
If your bites might have been deer tick bites, you get a tell-tale “bullseye” shaped rash. I had one, I just couldn’t see it. If you have that rash, assume you have it.
Many do not get that rash, and symptoms run the gamut. In my case it was on-again off again flu symptoms with exTREME fatigue that would come and go. Others get joint pain, sweats, all sorts of things. Theer is a Lyme test, but it is not conclusive, it doesn’t detect a Lyme cell, it only says whether your blood work is consistent with someone who has Lyme.
Lyme is still mostly in the northeast and heavily wooded northern areas like Michigan, though its range has spread.
Trinity County, Ca. is considered ground zero for Lyme Disease in the western United States.
Yes; I had it, probably still have it (treatment was about 4 months late and only at my assistance).
Own a home in So. Cal. and own a farm in No. Cal.
Got back to So. Ca. and only heard from the doctors that I couldn’t get Lyme in southern California in the city, no ticks.
Told them for 3 and a half months that I had been brushing out my fields in No. Cal.
Couldn’t get it through their heads that in a 12 hour drive you can get into places that have an awful lot of ticks.