errr ticks!

[ticks]

I feel so hated.

 

[Tallman]

I feel so hated.

I would too after being dusted, talked about, and picked off.

 

[Mackay]

Don't you folks who get tick bites worry about getting Lyme disease?

I went through a scare last year with a tick bite and got Colorado tick fever. They treated me for lyme just in case. The infectious disease doc I went to said that the risk was low in Utah and none in Idaho. Yet I talked with one doctor in Utah and half his patients are lyme patients and there are many cases talked about in the community in Idaho, my neighbor up there being one of them and he says that a number of folks in town have it.

So it would appear to me that this map lies!
http://www.aldf.com/usmap.shtml

Just because the "pros" say lyme is not in your area, I would not believe it! And if the map says low risk then that is too much risk! If you get a bit get treated. If you get treatment too late then it is too late for you and you will likely have lyme the rest of your life.

If I get a tick bite again I'm just gonna do the doxycycline again, no matter what.

 

[dacjohns]

Many tickborne diseases have very similar symptoms and not all people infected with a disease show the classic symptoms.

Also, not all doctors are experienced in tickborne diseases and might just say something to meet the patient's expectations and then treat for said disease. Treatment is the same for many of the tickborne and other similar diseases. Sometimes you can't tell what the disease is until after a blood test is done and the blood test won't show anything until antibodies start showing up in the system, at which time you are already in serious trouble.

So long story made short; doctors treat early for what it might be, not necessarily for what it really is.

This is from my experience being treated for a tickborne disease. It was probably Lyme but it could have been Erlichiosis.

Laymen will often think they have disease de jour.

 

[nightshade]

They are great at eating bugs and work hard at it all day long......at the neighbor's house! They come home when they see me, though, and beg for a handful of sunflower seeds...

Well I am glade I am not the only one. We got 6 paid more then we should for them I think raised the all winter took them to the new farm. They were at my moms house a week, now 2 months later they are a mile down the road every day. They come back to my mom's for about 2-4 hours a day but got way out the road to roost every night. I honestly don't get it.


I defiantly worry about lime disease, that was the first thing they checked me for when the found out I had RA do to my large amount of time spent in the woods, but what are you going to do, you can try to prevent getting them on you but frankly if you are in a woodland area most of your day every day it is gonna happen.

 

[ticks]

I feel so hated.

I would too after being dusted, talked about, and picked off.