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[quote=Anonymous]Agree that it sounds like a dog tick, not a deer tick.
As someone who has had Lyme disease, just watch for the bullseye (will be in the spot that the tick was feeding) and if he starts to feel terrible. I felt like I was going to collapse--when I couldn't lift my arm up to put my pocketbook on my shoulder that's when I knew something was really not right. 
The risk of Lyme increases with exposure--the longer it was on the higher the risk. I had a tick on me for over 36 hrs and didn't know.
The tests for Lyme (at least a decade ago) were not tremendously sensitive--I think both for false negatives and false positives. They do a couple of different tests, I believe, if they really suspect it (or not), but have ambivalent findings. 
They will not (and should not) give you prophylactic antibiotics. They need to stage it, if you do have it, and that will govern what antibiotics you get and for how long. The risk of prophylactic anbx is not worth the marginal benefit.[/quote]

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