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Ticks are no joke.
One got me in 2015 and put me in the ICU with a heartrate of 25.
I passed out on my way to the bathroom in the middle of the night. The crash awakened my wife and she called the paramedics. Doc said If I stayed in bed, I probably wouldn't have woke up.
7 days in the hospital PICC line Temp pacemaker 30 days of self administered IV Doxycycline
All from a tick I never saw. Noticed the bite, and a (non bullseye) rash. Took 30 days for symptoms to occur.
Lyme Carditis. Stage 3 heart block. Check for ticks.
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Thankfully they haven't been too bad this year.Last year was the worst I've seen here.
That sounds terrible RG
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Thankfully they haven't been too bad this year.Last year was the worst I've seen here.
That sounds terrible RG Was no picnic, that's for sure. Thank God I made a full recovery. Interesting how Lyme affects people differently.
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I got Lyme disease last year. I never saw the tick. Thought a sweat bee had stung me. My wife is a doc and her practice is seeing way more cases in NC than they ever have in the past. I hate taking antibiotics they mess with my digestive system. She came home with a bottle full of them and said "Take every last one of these on time". A few days after I started taking them the bullseye rash showed up. Really glad I listened.
A neighbor just got diagnosed with it a few weeks ago. My lovely bride has declared war on ticks. We now are raising 30+ Guinee foul. Just moved them from a brooder area in the garage into an outside "poultry palace". They are due to start daytime free range tick patrol in about 2 weeks.
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Lyme does occur here in ID but it's quite rare. The CDC says there were only 160 cases in 8 years from 2000 to 2018. They only record confirmed cases, though, so it could be higher. A teenage boy in our church got Rocky Mtn Spotted fever from what was probably a wood tick last money. He was pretty sick for a few days but got over it rapidly with antibiotics. RMSF was named after the Rocky Mtns because that's where it was first identified but it's actually fairly rare there. It's much more prevalent in the south.
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That's 6200+ in the US, not just in Idaho. Epidemiology Figure 1 – Reported cases of SFR in the United States, 2000–2018
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Thanks for correction. I gotta learn to read faster.
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Quick question ,youngest son is about to embark on college at WV. Anyone know how bad they are there? Was debating to get him a can of Permitherin,but don't know if he can take it to school??
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Thank you!! He loves to fish so I'm sure he'll be wandering around somewhere in the woods.
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Possums are tick magnets and eat over 5000 ticks / season. Ticks jump on the slow-moving possum. Possums are fastidious groomers, and eat the ticks off their bodies. Scientist studied possums( possum scat), and calculated one possum eats over 5000 ticks per season. Support having more possums in the wild to control tick populations. https://www.caryinstitute.org/news-insights/media-coverage/opossums-killers-ticks
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One tick lays THOUSANDS of eggs. https://thetarpan.com/how-do-tick-reproduce/A quart of permethrin mix will kill MILLIONS of ticks and keep them off you for a year or more for about a dollar. Eliminating the need to tolerate chicken killing over grown rats and garden raiders.
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Yeah, make sure the "mix" is formulated for CLOTHING and not barns, etc.
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I took my two oldest boys squirrel hunting in 2006 and got into a bunch of ticks, actually Lone Stars in the larvae stage. You can barely see them. I probably had 30 bites on my lower legs. The next evening, one of them started to get red and I began to chill. They sent me home from work and by the next morning I was so weak I couldn’t even hold my head up. My wife took me to the doctor and they admitted me on the spot. A blood clot formed in my lower leg where the bite was and it was all swelled up like I was copperhead bit. I was in the hospital for seven days being pumped full of antibiotics and blood thinners. I was completely out of it being so weak that at times I could hear people talking but to weak to open my eyes. The doctor told me there were only two such cases in Indiana that year. They never were really able to tell me what was wrong with me other than they thought had a “bacterial infection” of the bloodstream brought on by the tick bite. Who knows. Bad stuff.
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I've had lyme disease twice. Both times I was on extended doses of doxycycline. The first time it was from a tick I discovered in the back side of my armpit a day or two after late season spring turkey hunting. The second I didn't know I had. I just developed an intense itch on my back that didn't get bad until a hot, humid June picnic. I asked my sister if I had a rash on my back, lifted my shirt, and she said, "you need to go to the doctor." The doctor at the urgent care called in another doctor and then they took pictures saying it was a picture perfect lyme disease rash. This year, I haven't picked a tick off me at all. I've been out dozens of times looking for bear and I've waded through armpit high brush, waist high grass, in the woods, reeds, etc. Not a single tick. Oh, and no fire ants this year, either. Last year I got attacked by fire ants three times and there were mounds everywhere. I've scarcely seen a mound anywhere this year, and the ones I've seen are dormant. It's a great summer to be out in the thick stuff.
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Seventy years ago I became very ill but the Doctors here really couldn't figure out what was wrong. I was going downhill pretty fast. My Doctor went to a convention in Denver, posted my X rays and two Colorado Doctors told him I had RMSTF. First known case in California. Lesson learned so now while hunting I spray my clothes down with REPEL and haven't had an issue with ticks in years.
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Just got back from a trip to the cabin.
My son just noticed a bullseye rash on his arm. He had an itch there on Saturday but noticed the distinctive shape today.
We have a doctor appointment at 930 tomorrow morning. My wife wants to take him to urgent care now. I don't disagree.
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Best wishes for his speedy recovery.
You may want to ask the doctor how familiar they are with the diagnosis and treatment of tick-borne diseases. Many are hesitant to diagnose.
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