Posted on 04/30/2016 7:15:07 AM PDT by null and void
Transmitted from ticks, it can take years to diagnose, leaving people suffering painful symptoms doctors are unable to explain.
A 'TICKING TIME BOMB' On any ranked list of nasty diseases transmitted by mosquitoes, ticks and fleas in the Western world, Borrelia burgdorferi, would have to lie near the top. These bacteria cause Lyme disease, which was first recognised in the US in the early 1970s among patients in Lyme, Connecticut. However, the oldest known case was the Ötzi the Tyrolean Iceman - a 5,300-year-old Copper-age mummified individual - discovered in the Italian Alps.
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ticks don’t jump and are located in tall grasses and lawns.
Stay on the beaten path or paved areas and you will be OK or better off.
Just last week I went 10 feet into the road side by my place to pick up a beer can,came out and had one on my calf.
It was a dog tick much bigger than a deer tick but still a tick.
The only good tick is a dead tick
I am constantly looking down when out back.
Wear white socks to make it easier to see them
Baby deer ticks are the size of a Poppy Seed
If curious about the tick population in your yard/area make a “Tick Drag”
Simple and easy.
I did a freaked out
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYLSNwB1Ar8
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2012/10/13/under-our-skin-documentary.aspx
I enjoyed my time in Connecticut
Mystic was a cool town
Saybrook
Lots of tales to tell from New London
“Bambi lovers in America”
Thats a rather broad and incorrect statement.
Deer are being consolidated by development
I hate deer and last week counted 14 in my back field.
Just step off the pavement in Arkansas, Eastern Oklahhoma anywhere and you will get one.
Once I was driving from New Mexico to Arkansas and NEVER got off pavement.
Near Russellville, Ar I stopped to check my load and never got off the pavement. Later I found one large dog tick well buried in the back of my knee. I then realized I had brushed against a small blade of grass at that rest stop. That was all it took.
Deer hunting on the Islands in Bever Lake in NW Ark was hell as we found thousands of small soft bodied ticks dug all over us.
Bad news foe jackasses like me that hate to see the doctor LOL
I’ll just shake it off LOL
The difference between syphilis and Lymes is that Clinton was not bitten by a tick.
***Another reason I am selling the farm and heading South.***
The ONLY place I Never got a tick was in the desert west. No chiggers either.
The South? Look closely, you can see the forest ticks moving toward you. Chiggers following!
Nieces suddenly had several organ failures and blindness. Diagnosed lyme disease that must have been there for quite awhile. Problem is some of the related tick diseases have mycoplasma and they really don’t know how to cure. They fester and pop up as something major. Try to find a dr that knows anything more than to treat for 3 weeks. Lots of quacks too.
OMG Dave they are thick in Ohio and Pennsyltucky.
see at least 5 dead ones one the side of the road at any time of season.
They were meant to be harvested,not to starve, eat yer garden and jump in front of yer car
Never had one, they must think I’m sour.
Nasty lil boogers
But really Ticks in New mexico?
DamnI hate chiggers
Man I love the desert south west at altitude, I have been all around this world and that is were I want to be
I had it as well, and the antibiotics were very effective (I immediately asked the doctor to test for it; even without a rash I knew what it was). I never found the tick or the bite site.
The worst part of the antibiotics (which I followed religiously out of fear of the chronic symptoms) is that you can’t eat for three hours before and one hour after taking it; for an undisciplined slob like me who eats 5-6 meals throughout the day like a hobbit that was tough...
How was the pizza?
Dousing yourself with “Deep Woods OFF” is very effective in keeping them away, but you want to shower ASAP when you are indoors - strong stuff. When I’m hiking (along the NJ/NJ border) I can brush through 2-3 feet of knee-length brush and find 5-6 on my legs...
No, Russellville Arkansas.
My wife has a lot of relatives in the midwest in and near rural areas.
Basically, every adult driver in that area, with at least a decade of driving has at least one bad event with a deer while driving. Some have been very serious, like a couple on a motorcycle hitting one and lying seriously injured on by the road for about an hour until a neighbor saw their destroyed bike and then found them.
Deer/vehicle impacts have happened in town, suburbs, and on the open road during the day, early mornings, evenings and at night!
I’ve had it before... It’s really devastating and for me the worst part was the inability to think straight or coherently for very long.
Thank goodness for the Internet and a Physician’s assistant that knew the symptoms and the Doctor he worked for listened to him and trusted his diagnosis.
A treatment of the right anti-biotics and I was on the mend three weeks later and fully recovered in about six months.
I had lyme disease four times in childhood. At 4, 8, 14, and 16. It’s practically a rite of passage when you live next to 2900 acres of New England backwoods!
Every time was a miserable experience! Always in my left leg, always involving almost a year of anti-biotics and a “draining” process with a liter-sized syringe and a 20 gauge needlepoint.
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