i has it



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6/3/2010 1:54:09 PM

Racist



[Edited on June 3, 2010 at 1:55 PM. Reason : the bubonic plague is nothing to joke about]

6/3/2010 1:55:10 PM

but paging all the people freaked out by ticks. this will surely calm their fears.

do you think you got it from a tick bite?

[Edited on June 3, 2010 at 1:59 PM. Reason : .]

6/3/2010 1:59:08 PM

if youre freaked out by ticks honestly you should probably not live anywhere near a plant


and serious question, do black people just not get bit by ticks or somethin when i leave the woods ive always found ticks but never has one bitten me

from the cradle on up

[Edited on June 3, 2010 at 2:00 PM. Reason : j]

6/3/2010 1:59:44 PM

i know. i am not freaked out by ticks. which is crazy because i'm a hypochondriac.

^ i don't know - doesn't it seem like it should be the opposite? cause they'd blend in better or something? cause when they get on dogs (or other animals - i dunno i've only found them on my dog) that have light and dark colored hair they normally are in the dark spots so they can blend. just plopping down on a white person's arm doesn't seem like a good idea.

[Edited on June 3, 2010 at 2:02 PM. Reason : .]

6/3/2010 2:01:01 PM

my grandmother has had it 3 times... she gardens alot, but damn. ticks...

6/3/2010 2:01:55 PM

Where did you get it? North Carolina? I was under the impression that it was VERY rare here. Both of my parents had it when we lived in Connecticut. It was awful for them. They had to spend an entire summer without going outside pretty much because of the medicine (I think -- I was like 8 when they got it) and for my family that is pretty much a jail sentence.

Good luck with it! Hopefully it isn't as bad as my parents...

6/3/2010 2:03:08 PM

i got it when i was in NC like 2 or 3 summers ago... can't remember how long ago it was at this point.

fucking awful

6/3/2010 2:04:29 PM

i have 83 chigger bites, and apparently 1 tick bite. i had shorts on, in my parent's yard near the pond, never ever saw a tick. the doc said it could have been teeny tiny and i just brushed it off or something. the chigger bites are all typical little blistery itchy red spots. i thought the tick bite was a spider bite at first.

the redness around the bite went from about 1" across on the 1st day after, to 2.5" on tuesday, 3" yesterday, and today it's 4" and has the characteristic bullseye. it never looked like a bullseye until today. it's hurt since day one and just now itches today. it feels like it's 1000000000 degrees. when i walk it feels like there's a string or something that connects to it inside my leg down to my heel, then pulls on it as a roll my foot forward. fun stuff.

i am now taking amoxicillin 3 times a day for the next 4 weeks. i have myasthenia gravis, and because of this i can't take the 2 main antibiotics they prescribe for lyme disease. booooo

i was at my parent's house in nash county when i got it. my coworker has had 3 relatives who live in 3 different cities across NC who all got it the same summer. odd. the nurse said they've had a LOT of cases of tick & spider bites this year already.

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6/3/2010 2:07:36 PM

6/3/2010 2:08:52 PM

my parents live on 12 acres in the woods. that stuff won't exactly cut it.

6/3/2010 2:11:43 PM

I got my second tick bite in two weeks the other day. I was paranoid as fuck the first bite because I've never been bitten before. I have found ticks on me before, but they never had actually bit me. Then I saw how rare it is to get lyme disease if you remove the tick within a few hours of it initially biting.

The bite I had a couple weeks ago wound up looking like a mosquito bite, it itched like hell but never got bigger than like 1/2" in diameter. This time it looks like its going to be about the same thing. I just have a tiny mosquito type bite now and it has been a few days since I removed the tick.

Its so weird, I dont even go in the woods, I got them both by watering/checking my watermelons and bell pepper plants in the backyard. It is in the side of the backyard, not around any trees or tall grass, I totally wouldnt think I would get ticks there

6/3/2010 2:26:47 PM

I heard on a wilderness show that the tick needs to have been attached to you for at least 24hours for a chance of getting lyme disease.



i have nothing more to add to this thread. Sorry

6/3/2010 2:27:02 PM

^yeah, i thought it took longer. maybe it happened before and i somehow didn't notice a tick on the inside of my calf. i'm preeettttyyy sure i would have.

regardless, i have a bullseye now.

6/3/2010 2:30:06 PM

^ nah, that's just a general rule of thumb, there have been cases where people get lyme disease from a tick that was attached for less than several hours.

I got lyme disease after while interning in the Delaware Water Gap last summer. I got the characteristic bulls-eye and you described it exactly as how mine was. I was put on Doxycycline for a couple weeks, and came out fine feeling no effects.

6/3/2010 2:36:25 PM

I had a bullseye rash and had Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever..

Fake out!

6/3/2010 2:46:47 PM

Friend of mine actually just got lyme disease a couple days ago. His was also on his calf, and after having checked for ticks. It was a deer tick and he just missed it, those fools are tiny. He double checked really closely after finding some on the dog, and there it was. Definitely wasn't on there more than a few hours, and definitely still sucks. I'm officially very careful about checking for ticks now. Sorry you got dat disease

6/3/2010 3:00:21 PM

what are the symptoms of rocky mountain spotted fever? like is there a rash that accompanies the bite that will let you know you have it (like the bulleye rash that comes with lyme disease)?

6/3/2010 3:01:00 PM

^http://tinyurl.com/2vrf652

6/3/2010 3:09:30 PM

^2 I had headaches every day for 2 months straight (that did not go away, ever, with no amount of medicine)... Then after about two months I have a lump on my leg (I'm guessing from me not getting the tick's head out completely?) which turned into a bullseye rash the next morning.

The doctor told me they're starting to see a lot of people with Lyme's who have RMSF symptoms and vice versa. Another friend of mine who is a nurse at Duke (and who had Lyme's for 3+ years) said they're creating a board to examine how the symptoms overlap and try to get some funding for more testing..

Anyway, the doc said my headaches were from my brain stem swelling. I also got really sick and had flu-like symptoms (actually thought I had mono).

6/3/2010 3:25:32 PM

6/3/2010 3:30:11 PM

i thought it was just lyme disease, not lyme's ?

6/3/2010 3:57:53 PM

got the test results back.

it's not just lyme (although that test was normal, doc still thinks i have it. very obvious bull's eye at the site). i have an old rocky mtn spotted fever infection too!! it's not active. i just have the antibodies floating around. i never knew it, never was treated.

this could very easily explain my mysterious joint problems for the past 2 years. at least that's kinda good...

6/10/2010 12:38:04 PM

ticks are racists

6/10/2010 12:39:46 PM

GLOBAL WARMING!

[Edited on June 10, 2010 at 12:57 PM. Reason : is why there are more ticks now]

6/10/2010 12:56:53 PM

^^^did you ever have to take a round of antibiotics for anything in the past year? Even though it could be a couple thousand for the blood tests for tick-borne illnesses, all it takes is a week or so of doxycycline (sp?) to clear it all up.

[Edited on June 10, 2010 at 4:48 PM. Reason : ,m]

6/10/2010 4:48:17 PM

huh?

no, i haven't taken antibiotics since 2005 (after surgery).

i guess you mean a couple thousand dollars...? i just pay the $25 copay. i have no idea how much testing costs.

and i can't take doxycycline. i can't take anything that ends in -cycline, -mycin, or -xacin.

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"i am now taking amoxicillin 3 times a day for the next 4 weeks. i have myasthenia gravis, and because of this i can't take the 2 main antibiotics they prescribe for lyme disease. booooo"

6/10/2010 4:55:17 PM

It is just Lyme, but I have a habit of saying Lyme's... kinda like how I say Kroger's

6/10/2010 4:56:03 PM

oh hehe. kinda like belk's, eckerd's, etc...

6/10/2010 4:58:42 PM

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6/10/2010 4:59:35 PM

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"LYME IS DISEASE"

6/10/2010 4:59:38 PM