The comedian is currently on antibiotics and “excited to get rid of it.”
, senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, agrees. “Some people who have Lyme disease may not have the characteristic bulls-eye rash early on, and may miss the diagnosis,” he says.Michael Zimring, M.D.
, director of the Center for Wilderness & Travel Medicine at Mercy Medical Center. “If someone has typical symptoms and lives in an area where there’s Lyme or have deer around their house, it’s a relatively easy disease to diagnose if you’re familiar with it,” he says. “Some people who are not familiar with Lyme disease will miss the diagnosis.”
That said, it’s not really possible for doctors to tell exactly how long someone has had Lyme disease. “The test would just say it’s positive,” Dr. Adalja says. Many doctors will also test someone for Lyme disease if they have non-specific symptoms, further complicating things. “If the test comes back positive, you need to figure out, ‘Are these symptoms related to Lyme or not?’” Dr. Adalja says.
“Oral antibiotics—usually doxycycline—are effective in treating Lyme disease at any stage,” Dr. Watkins says. According to the CDC, most people recover “within a few weeks” of taking the medication.
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