Over the past couple of days I’ve been trying to figure out when I got Lyme Disease. Since I did not experience a rash it is difficult to say with any certainty.
One particular camping trip to Harriman State Park in late spring or early summer of 2007 makes me think that I picked it up that weekend. It was several days after this trip that I remember feeling tightness in my jaw and having a stiff neck for about 5-7 days. It went away on it’s own and I didn’t think much of it at the time.
I usually spend a lot of time in the woods going hiking or camping every other weekend. There is nothing I love to do more than exploring our wilderness areas.
I have always been very careful and usually use bug repellent containing DEET whenever I go to the woods. However there are a hand full of times in 2007 that I remember getting to the woods, realizing that I was all out of bug repellent and going for a hike anyway since I was already there and it would be too time consuming to turn around and go back to try to find some bug spray. Now I wish I had.