I got Lyme disease, dammit!

kdstrick said:
Deer love to eat poison ivy. Look and see if most of the leaves are stripped except for beyond the deers reach (assuming that the vines grow up the trees).
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I'll have to look ... I know the vines grow up pretty thick but I'll have to check if they are being eaten and just regrowing so lushly.
 
Haven't had a tick yet this year and I am in ohio.
I do tuck my pant legs into my boots tough and that seems to help.

Nothing better then gutting a deer in the field and finding out he has 100's of ticks on him.
 
I'm glad you were diagnored early and are getting better.

I have chronic lyme. I just started antibiotics treatment and hope to be back to normal in about a year and a half. I've met people who have been cured of chronic lyme, but it takes an antibiotics regime that goes against the current standards of treatment. The current standards favor the health insurance industry. A gond book came out this year on lyme, its treatmeot, and the war going on by those who created the standards of treatment (and those who benefit financially the most from them) against doctors who are curing chronic lyme patients and are trying to get the standards of treatment changed. The title is ~Cure Unknown: Inside The Lyme Epidemic" by Pamela Weintraub. She is an editor at Discover Magazine who had to fight doctors and health insurance companies to get herself and her family cured from chronic lyme.
 
my buddy had it for a year before he relized it...I get tested every 6 mos...So far so good...Foilist, Sorry bro, For what it's worth my buddy's back in action
 
I was lucky last fall - found the bugger that bit me within a day and given prophylactic antibiotics within 72 hours. tested negative for lyme titers after 21 days on antibiotics and 3 months later.
 
Foilist said:
I guess my number came up, because I found myself in bed with fever, chills, headache, body aches, and nausea all of a sudden. The morning of the second day I suspected what it was, got on antibiotics, and now I'm back to myself on day four, except for some lingering fatigue.
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The same happened to me last year. Don't worry, antibiotics are efficient when taken early and you will recover quickly.

DOC-CANADA said:
my GP called me and said that there was now a vaccine available - Lymerix and that probably I should get the shots. I replied that perhaps I should wait and see how it goes to which he replied that it had been extensively used in Europe without mishap so there should be no problem.
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I have talked to my doctor about that vaccine, according to him the development of the vaccine is harder to make in Europe because, here, 3 bacterias transmit the disease whereas in the US only one bacteria transmits it.

What is sure is that a tick (sting included) has to be removed in the 5 hours following the bite with a small hook which looks like a tiny prybar. In case of doubt: antibiotics, earliest is best.

Good luck.

dantzk.
 
I work for a local Health District in Ct-"Lyme Disease Capitol of the World"- in Litchfield county. We send in lots of ticks for testing by the State lab. The concensus is that the tick has to be on you for 24 to 36 hrs to transmit the spirochetes that cause Lymes. It has to have had a blood meal. The lab wont even test it unless it is engorged. A lot of M.D.s in this area are giving prophylactic 3 day doses of Doxicycline for any tick bite. A shower/ scrubdown with a soapy washrag does gets rid of them after a day in the field. Soap of any kind kills them.--KV
 
DOC-CANADA said:
The first tick I found on me got flushed (repulsed reaction). This is the second one (May 25, 2007). The ruler's scale is millimetres.
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That's a dog tick. They are the ones that are common here and that can carry Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever. My Grandad had it once and it's wicked.

It is the much smaller deer tick that is the main vector for lymes.
 
kvaughn said:
I work for a local Health District in Ct-"Lyme Disease Capitol of the World"- in Litchfield county. We send in lots of ticks for testing by the State lab. The concensus is that the tick has to be on you for 24 to 36 hrs to transmit the spirochetes that cause Lymes. It has to have had a blood meal. The lab wont even test it unless it is engorged. A lot of M.D.s in this area are giving prophylactic 3 day doses of Doxicycline for any tick bite. A shower/ scrubdown with a soapy washrag does gets rid of them after a day in the field. Soap of any kind kills them.--KV
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All what i know about Lyme disease comes from my doctor but, well, you know what you are talking about and what you say is rather reassuring. What i have heard too is that the tick when it's killed, crushed or soaped or moistened with ether, injects its "poison". What do you think about? Right or wrong?

dantzk.
 
I am glad your feeling better. I have pulled plenty of ticks off me, Always Dog ticks. My eye sight isn't the best, I probably wouldn't see the deer ticks. I have been lucky I guess.
 
on_the_edge said:
If the deer ticks are not common there, count your blessings. I just came back from about 3 months in VA. At least where I was, you would be hard pressed NOT to come up with a tick after doing push-ups in the grass or taking a jog through the woods. The doc told me that that is how he knows spring has arrived in VA--every other person in urgent care is there for a tick issue or a poison ivy issue. And of course, the deer population is going crazy as well.
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Yeah but are you sure you are not talking dog ticks?

Virginia appears to be a fairly safe state according to the map.

http://www.cdc.gov/MMWR/preview/mmwrhtml/rr4807a2.htm
 
kvaughn said:
I work for a local Health District in Ct-"Lyme Disease Capitol of the World"- in Litchfield county. We send in lots of ticks for testing by the State lab. The concensus is that the tick has to be on you for 24 to 36 hrs to transmit the spirochetes that cause Lymes. It has to have had a blood meal. The lab wont even test it unless it is engorged. A lot of M.D.s in this area are giving prophylactic 3 day doses of Doxicycline for any tick bite. A shower/ scrubdown with a soapy washrag does gets rid of them after a day in the field. Soap of any kind kills them.--KV
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I've heard before how they have to be on you for at least 24 hours to infect you, which gives a person a chance to get rid of it. I always check myself over and shower after being in the outdoors, and have found ticks on my clothes plenty of times - but only once have I ever found one biting me. My new theory is that the cat brought one in.
 
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