Muscle and joint aches may mimic a viral illness. These later symptoms are intermittent and rapidly change. Neurologic and cardiac symptoms can also occur in later disease. There aren't any reliable tests that definitively diagnose early Lyme disease. Your health care provider will rely on your symptoms and history and maybe some lab tests to make the diagnosis.
Treatment is straightforward.
Many antibiotics are effective against the organism that causes Lyme disease and should be taken for several weeks. Late disease will require longer treatment. The risk of Lyme disease is low after tick bite because most people remove the tick before it has a chance to transmit disease. If transmission of disease does occur, the majority of people will develop the characteristic bullseye rash and seek treatment. Relapsing Fever Tick-borne relapsing fever is caused by an acute bacterial infection characterized by recurrent episodes of fever separated by afebrile periods.