Tick removed....now what?

[Robson Valley]

Their crawling speed can be substantial. Up your pant leg, down your shirt collar.
It is prudent here to examine _all_ of yourself with a mirror.

The deal is that they do their biology on the ground. Then they want a warm, living host to ride for a year.
So, the scent of urine attracts them to game trails. They climb the shrubbery and sit with front legs extended
to grab the next passer-by.

Standard collection device is a square meter of white flannel on a stick to sweep the game trail ahead of your travel.

 

[JamPan]

Well you've made me buy a tick remover tool from ebay just in case now!

 

[Janne]

mmmmmmmmmmmmmm

 

[bigbear]

Worrying things. Have had a few, so far so good, use tick tweezers.
A son of a friend started his maths degree at Oxford, got sick in the first year, by the time the doctors decided it was Lymes or something like it, too late. On a good day he can walk to the shops, on a bad day he cannot getboff the sofa. For the last thirty years.
Be careful !!

 

[Dogoak]

There is no 'S', it's 'Lyme' disease!

 

[Ettrick reiver]

If in doubt get it checked out, two friends of mine one a FC stalker and one a Gamekeeper have both now got Lymes disease which is debilitating in both cases. This is in the Scottish Borders.
Better safe than sorry, it's a genuine reason to get checked out and if found treated promptly thus stopping this life changing illness.
Best
Garry

 

[Janne]

There is no 'S', it's 'Lyme' disease! [/QUOTE

 

[Jaeger]

This is the reason a bushcrafter gets married. Check for ticks in hard to see areas!

This post comes close to the sites ongoing 'change a letter' thread! (I'll post a clue for those who need one )

 

[richy3333]

Another west-coaster. Had my fair share of ticks. The children often have them whilst playing out. We just remove them (ticks, not the children) and move on with our lives. The red deer are a major problem carrying them and then passing them to our sheep. It doesn't help when your laird is a namby-pamby deer hugger and won't cull the buggers sufficiently.

Our friends recently returned to the islands. Took their sheep back and unknowingly put them on land that the deer had been heavily running on. They lost 50 sheep in less than 2 weeks due to the ticks!

 

[adestu]

my partner is currently undergoing treament for early lyme disease.not fun to see her vomiting and being tired and aching

 

[Janne]

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[adestu]

probably the lyme Janne

 

[Janne]

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[Countryman]

Just going to echo a couple of the earlier comments.

If you spend enough time outdoors you will get ticks. It's worth getting checked over thoroughly when you get home by someone who loves to see you nude! Ticks love crevices so you have to pay attention to the details. Two of my sneakiest ticks have been found in my belly button and between my toes.

Look out for the bullseye rash

But don't count on it. If you feel off colour after a tick bite go to a Doctor and offer them your concern about Lyme Disease because most won't have a clue.


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[MountainGoat]

Hi Folks,

My girlfriend has just come back from the Doctors after having a tick removed from her arm, they removed the tick (Poorly) dropped it on the floor and lost it then sent my GF on her way.
She doesn't believe it was on her for more than an hour or 2 at most, and probably came from picking the dog up in the garden.
Is there anything we should do/ be looking out for moving forward? the doctor didn't seem interested.

As always, your input is always very much appreciated!

Cheers

Turnip

I'd suggest full amputation.

One can never be too sure.

Hold her down and get that arm off. Tell her it's for her own good. She'll understand.

 

[Bigfoot]

I know your comments are made in jest but I'm sorry, that is just not funny.

 

[C_Claycomb]

I came across a thread on the Hill People Gear forum talking about one chap's experience with ticks and infected bites:

https://hillpeoplegear.com/Forum/forumid/23/postid/25355/scope/posts#25355

We have been researching Lyme and co-infections for around 7 months. Here are a few things we learned.

1. If you get a tick bite, go get on antibiotics. Do not wait for a bulls eye rash, only about 40% of people get the rash. Do not wait for symptoms, its harder to cure the longer you have it. Its better to be on antibiotics for a while then to live with Lyme. Do not wait for testing, the ELISA test is only 50% accurate. You'd just as well off flipping a coin. There are no 100% reliable tests for Lyme, despite what the CDC tells you.
2. A tick can transmit Lyme or other co-infections to you in under an hour. Some estimate it can take as little as 10 minutes. The CDC is incorrect in stating it takes 24 to 48 hours for transmission. The tick that gave my daughter Lyme was on her for a max of 5 hours.
3. If you get a tick bite, I highly recommend you seek out a Lyme Specialist that has had Lyme Disease. They are the only ones that understand what its like to have Lyme and how to treat it. Other doctors have no idea what they are dealing with and will not be compassionate. This is a sad state of affairs.
4. Ticks fall from trees. Wear a hat treated with Permethrin when under tree growth.
5. If you catch Lyme early it is curable, if it goes chronic then you are in for a long rough road.
6. Pennsylvania is the #1 state for Lyme Disease cases. Great.
7. Stephen H. Buhner is most likely the most knowledgeable person on Lyme Disease and co-infections and treatment.

I'm sure I've got more. Here is an interview of Bob Giguere of Igenex with some great information.https://youtu.be/tqr2gTCnqvY

Coming from someone in the US, in an area of heavy tick and Lyme prevalence, 30 years after my own experience in New York where the doctor that we called about my bite was really on the ball, it is very sad.

 

[Janne]

Taking antibiotics willy nilly only creates resistant bacteria.

If the author takes AB's after each bite, who prescribes them to him, and under which diagnosis??

 

[santaman2000]

Taking antibiotics willy nilly only creates resistant bacteria.

If the author takes AB's after each bite, who prescribes them to him, and under which diagnosis??

I've had a dentist prescribe a course of antibiotics BEFORE a tooth extraction just as a preventative measure. I agree with you about them being overprescribed though.

 

[C_Claycomb]

I on the other hand cannot remember exactly when I last managed to pry any antibiotics from a doctor...I think it has been more than 10 years, despite having had three infections since which once upon a time would have been treated with such meds. I don't know who it is who has over prescribed, or where, but it wasn't any of the 11 or 12 doctors, spread over four practices in four towns in three parts of the country, that I have encountered in the last 22 years. Maybe in places where the doctors are not primarily gate keepers with a mission to prevent excess expenditure of government funds on hypochondriacs, the prescription situation is different. Here, you have to feel like death to get an appointment, which will only be available a week or two in the future (so anything really bad will have killed you already), then you may get referred to the nurse to draw blood, but that will probably be another day, that needs a separate appointment, then you will go home and carry on dying for a week until you get a message that your results are in, after which you can make a further appointment to discuss your results, cue a further few days or week, then you get to see a different doctor who has absolutely no idea why you came in in the first place, who taps away on a computer and asks what you would like to know about your test results! Of course, by now you have either got over whatever it was (see, you didn't need treatment!), it has become chronic, or killed you. Two out of three chances that you won't cost the Health Service any money.

Given that the above is the situation, it seems reasonable to go in with the aim to get treatment at all costs, because it will be a long battle any way, and if you don't fight, you will simply be turned away. No chance of convincing someone that flu symptoms are reason for antibiotics if you are polite and very British about it.