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by grepfru_it 1471 days ago
Once I was actively taking doxycycline when I went for a walk through the woods with some friends. After the walk I took a shower and made sure a tick didn’t catch a ride. Put my clothes back on and flew home the next day. Fast forward a week, I’m hanging at my in-laws house when I scratch my leg and feel something off. Pull my pants up and there’s a tick, but it looks flat. My nurse sister jumps into action and tweezes it’s off but she comments it’s dead.

I figured either I became The Tick (TM) or the doxy in my bloodstream killed the tick. It’s been over 7 years and no signs of Lyme nor desire to latch onto someone’s blood stream so im going with the doxycycline killed the tick.

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I wonder if you shook your clothes out before putting them back on.
I did! But that’s likely how it made its way onto me