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I just got back from taking Charlie to the vet. On Friday I took him to a dog park that was also near a field. So we ran Charlie in the field and near the end I decided to let him play in the lease free part of the dog park with two other dogs (they were small dogs). He was dirty and I even gave Charlie a bath when we got home. Fast forward a few hours later I saw that his left eye had like a small bump sorta like our fly bites and his neck below his chin also had a pink bump (like two small half size rice grains). His eye bump got better today where it's just a black dot there on his eye lid from it being healed but his neck bump on this chin's swelling just went down a lot today. I was scared so I booked an appt yesterday for the vet today. So this is what the vet told me:
1) apparently in 2009 there were 26 cases of lyme disease in the area so for 2010 lyme disease is a high risk.
2) all bumps they see now are automatically assumed to be lyme disease and lots of people bringing their dogs in with bumps that's tick bites
3) recommendations: a) blood test to see if he has lyme disease b) 10 day supply of doxycycline antibiotics c) lyme disease vaccine d) start revolution.
He wanted to start the antibiotic, vaccine and blood test all today!!!!!!! The thing is I didn't find anything on Charlie so I'm fairly certain it's not a tick bite on his neck. Plus the vet didn't seem to care if we did the blood test or not to verify if Charlie has lyme disease or not. To make matters worse we're going on a long vacation on Friday and Charlie will be with relatives for the month we're gone so I won't be around to monitor Charlie's behaviour. So what I did was, take the antibiotic and give it to Charlie in case it is lyme disease. Declined the blood test and vaccine but took the revolution. I didn't know at the vet's office that you should do a blood test first to make sure it's lyme before antibiotics till reading about it here. I didn't feel like the vet gave me options or explained things really well. What should I do now? Give Charlie the antibiotics as a pre-caution as there seems to be a high ratio of lyme disease in the area or go back and do the blood test?
1) apparently in 2009 there were 26 cases of lyme disease in the area so for 2010 lyme disease is a high risk.
2) all bumps they see now are automatically assumed to be lyme disease and lots of people bringing their dogs in with bumps that's tick bites
3) recommendations: a) blood test to see if he has lyme disease b) 10 day supply of doxycycline antibiotics c) lyme disease vaccine d) start revolution.
He wanted to start the antibiotic, vaccine and blood test all today!!!!!!! The thing is I didn't find anything on Charlie so I'm fairly certain it's not a tick bite on his neck. Plus the vet didn't seem to care if we did the blood test or not to verify if Charlie has lyme disease or not. To make matters worse we're going on a long vacation on Friday and Charlie will be with relatives for the month we're gone so I won't be around to monitor Charlie's behaviour. So what I did was, take the antibiotic and give it to Charlie in case it is lyme disease. Declined the blood test and vaccine but took the revolution. I didn't know at the vet's office that you should do a blood test first to make sure it's lyme before antibiotics till reading about it here. I didn't feel like the vet gave me options or explained things really well. What should I do now? Give Charlie the antibiotics as a pre-caution as there seems to be a high ratio of lyme disease in the area or go back and do the blood test?