Posted on 08/14/2015 9:38:41 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Thanks for info. I live in high tick area but I can instantly feel a tick crawling on me. I’m constantly flicking them off me when I go hiking in woods. I can’t imagine somebody having a tick on them for 48-72 hours without realizing it. Do some people have less sensitive skin than others?
Talstar is pretty good and isn’t easily dissolved in water so it lasts for a while. Anybody that lives in an area with lots of ticks needs to know how dangerous they can be.
Yes, you can check all the time but most people don’t realize that they don’t only end up in your hair. I’ve seen them in armpits and even had one inside my son’s ear.
I had my yard sprayed professionally for the first time this year and it seemed to work.
Your remark was asinine and sarcastic and veiled under false humor.
Heres more humor for you.....
https://www.yahoo.com/health/the-truth-about-chronic-lyme-disease-126509930222.html
Your mind reading skills are way off.
And it does suck a lot. Nobody should have that happen to them.
I certainly didn’t mean it that way.
I believe the ticks use a local so you don’t feel them; they don’t just bite - they insert their whole head under your skin. I had one recently, and tried to be careful removing it, since that may play a role in transmission as well. I believe the 24 hour attachment rule (I’ve never heard of it being longer) is used because at the point the tick is full some “backwash” (including the Lyme disease) may end up inside the host; if you remove them by simply squeezing them with tweezers you may inject it into yourself by the same principle. Most tick removers now work on the idea of twisting it off or something similar without squeezing its body.
I had Lyme disease once (get a lot of ticks while hiking along the NY/NJ border); never had a rash or saw the tick, but had such a sudden and high fever I went to the doctor immediately. Within 48 hours they confirmed it was Lyme, and after two weeks of an antibiotic I was fine. Had another tick attached in my upper thigh since then; took a while to get it off delicately, and it left a scar, but never turned into Lyme or anything else.
Glad you weren’t the doctor when I presented.
10 days in the hospital, 3 spinal taps during, and 6 weeks on intravenous Antiobiotics.
It took 6 MONTHS of hell until I woke up one day feeling like a human being.
I know friends that have been ravaged after doctors did not take it seriously, and have to see neurologists regurlarly as a result.
Chopped wood in the woods on Sunday, headache started Monday, presented Wednesday.
Still can’t recall how I got to the doctor, but I remember him screaming to shut all the lights off and call an ambulance.
Do not take chances with Lyme disease. It is the gift that keeps on giving.
I know. The Freeper probably was having a bad day.
Limes disease is tough to deal with...we don’t get it here too much, but we do have RMS fever (I’m in Montana). Even though it’s rare, I do know of one man who lost the use of his legs from it...sad, sad, sad.
You, my FRiend, have a great weekend!
Nil desperandum!!!!
When I go out in the woods and weeds I check myself and my pooch every 10 minutes or so. Lyme disease is the problem around here.
I read that just now...doctor’s diagnosis...stress! Treatment recommendation? Go on a cruise! I’d stick with ILADS. Most people who end up with Chronic Lyme get misdiagnosed by doctors who do not know anything but the drivel that comes out of CDC. Two doxy’s LOL! That’s ridiculous.
This gets downplayed big-time by chamber of commerce interests because it’s bad for business.
I ruined a mower doing the same thing, unintentionally mowing over a yellow jacket nest. They swarmed, started stinging, I jumped off to get away from them and the mower rolled over and over down an embankment into the woods. Got a good twelve stings, mostly on my left ankle and leg. Couldn’t wear a shoe for several days due to swelling.
We have many trees and a strong slope towards the Lake of the Ozarks. I had a rider for about 30 days but it kept wanting to drive into the lake so walk behind mowers are all we can use.
I bought a big, 30 inch cut walk behind from Toro called a Timemaster.
Way, way too heavy, plastic weeks cracked from the weight of the thing. Electric start needs a plug in after one use. I don’t recommend these monsters.
Easy, Big Fellar!
It was not intended as an insult!
He was commenting upon a Rocky Mountain Spotted fever victim and Limes disease was nowhere involved.
He was NOT targeting you or anyone else. It’s like you are ‘reading code words.’
I truly hope your prognosis is good.
Please, have a good weekend.
Tick borne diseases,any,are not a laughing matter especially when all of them are so debilitating and misdiagnosed and because of that are allowed to destroy too many lives something I have witnessed all to often..
I didn’t see the humor in the ‘Sucks” remark your pal made even though I am sure it was meant to be clever and cute.IMO It was not,it sucked.
Search Plum Island/Lyme and it will give you some insight as to why the gmnt is turning a blind eye
...and what follows is living proof that no matter what you say or how you say it, some FReeper will misread and misapply it, and apply it as a personal attack.
And then get their sequined jockthong in a wad.
For what it’s worth, I had a nymphtick on my arm this morning. Probably a gift from one of our felines.
We never seem to have a problem with fleas here. I think its too damp and fleas seem to thrive in sandy soil. Some years ticks are horrible but they haven’t been bad here this year.
This is the last I’ll say about this. It’s a very touchy subject because most who become ill from this started off with a crappy know-it-all doctor.
We see it right here with a doctor complaining about having to put up with “borderline personality-disordered anxiety-ridden patients”, that get sent away with “consolation prizes” and advised to maybe come back later for tests that are more often than not inaccurate. If a GOOD doctor was THAT concerned about the dangers of ABX, that could be monitored.
Anybody with concerns about tick-borne illnesses should begin by reading the ILADS guidelines. What was put forth here is dangerous and false. It’s malpractice.
It was not humor!
Don’t be an ass.
It’s not ‘white man code words.’
He already said that having RMS fever sucks. He responded to you directly.
Please, again, I ask/wish you to have a good weekend.
We wish you well. Peace.
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