Originally Posted by
DavidDane
Thanks for the reply Sam! Yeah I completely agree with you.
I honestly didn't want to put him on an antibiotic for a 3rd time though. I think the things I was a little concerned about are these...
Since I've put him on it twice, and the second time being 19 days instead of 10, shouldn't that have completely killed the original infection? And if this new lesion wasn't a bite, but was the other thing coming back, why would it appear on a different arm?
I think maybe I was concerned about these things because I didn't give him the full dosage that HRT had told me, which I believe was 2.3 or 2.4cc. Since the Rx was for 1cc, I tried to play it safe and just gave him 2.0cc. which makes me wonder if it completely killed the infection. I waited two weeks after stopping his medication, making sure that nothing would re-emerge on the original arm and then this thing pops up on the other arm. I hope that I gave him the correct antibiotic and dosage to completely get rid of it. I just don't want to put him on it for a 3rd time and have something pop up again somewhere 2 weeks later. Is it even possible to travel through his system and emerge somewhere else? Could he have gotten reinfected through his bedding?
Of course... The original arm is still healed, and this could just be a new bite. I'm just not sure what to think.