I have been re-infected with Lyme many, many times since childhood. It was never treated. (This was the 60's and Lyme didn't become a "thing" until the late 90's...) I "appeared" to heal from it. And I would slowly resume life again.
Then I started having cognitive issues in my 20's. Started having autonomic dysfunction issues in my tweens and teens. Started having neurological issues in my 30's. Not dx'd until 2008. Tried 18 months of many treatments, nothing worked. But I had changed my food and that had the biggest effect. But all these issues are now permanent, non-reversible.
So I do the best I can to eat the best food I can raise. Here's the whole story:
So my take: Be careful! It might not show up in a timely fashion.... But I do hope you are one who can heal from tick bites. Not everyone can....
As you have found, what we put into our bodies MATTERS. It either strengthens our immune systems or weakens them. Good food, good air, good water, good times. If more of us valued these four things, fewer of us would be sick. It makes me so sad to hear stories like yours. I suppose civilization has to go through this now and hope much good will come of it. xo
That said, I've decided to take the amoxicillin and hope that doesn't unleash a cascade of other illness for me. the good doctor also told me how, when, how much and what kind of probiotics to take while on the antibiotics, the very first time ANY doctor has said anything at all to me about probiotics. I think she is a keeper, an ally.
When I was dx'd in 2008, and they put me on antibiotics, I was already doing probiotics, had been for 6 months. So I just kept on doing them. Since then, sometimes doctors mention them, sometimes not....