Makes you wonder how many people are sick and suffering out there because of a misdiagnosis or a wrong diagnosis . May be a good idea for everyone to copy Jays original posts and hand copies out to family members and friends who spend time in the bush . I never knew that upon getting a bite you should start a course of antibiotics as 30% of the ticks out there are infected . I do now . Thanks Jay .
Tick and Lyme Disease Awareness
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This is an Excellent post . there is nothing more important than your health . I was out for a walk yesterday and I thought to myself that I'd like to go for a hike in the woods like I have done so since I was a kid in this area . not a chance . last year I stopped to take a leak just off a path and I was only slightly in the woods on standing on some bark and when I got back out to the bicycle path I looked down and I saw a tick with an orange body if I remember correctly and a black head walking up my pant leg . I grabbed the little offending critter and tried to crush it . not sure if I did .
freaked me out . I already have arthritis real bad so I don't need another nail in the coffin . I remember growing up . bush parties concerts driving drunk no drive clean cheap beer chicks who don't look like bill boards covered with tattoos . now Covid 19 ticks no drinking and driving women who have more tatts than Johnny Winter had and a gun grabbing puke in power . keep fighting Brothers . that's all we can do .
freaked me out . I already have arthritis real bad so I don't need another nail in the coffin . I remember growing up . bush parties concerts driving drunk no drive clean cheap beer chicks who don't look like bill boards covered with tattoos . now Covid 19 ticks no drinking and driving women who have more tatts than Johnny Winter had and a gun grabbing puke in power . keep fighting Brothers . that's all we can do .
Can do, just letting it bounce around @ the moment as it gets more attention.
Good point! NexGard Spectra for the pooch!
Just noticed a W5 episode on ticks & lyme. Here's the link:
h ttps://www.ctvnews.ca/video?clipId=2144036
"Bitten" starts @23 mins in...
I think this is the same episode on youtube
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQh_XPU0imQ
h ttps://www.ctvnews.ca/video?clipId=2144036
"Bitten" starts @23 mins in...
I think this is the same episode on youtube
[youtube]DQh_XPU0imQ[/youtube]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQh_XPU0imQ
Like it, that brings up a question, The spray , I presume just on clothing and not your hide, unless horse?
Funny thing, I lived in the county for 70 yrs, don't remember ever seeing a tick, moved to town and had a tick stuck to my arm about 5 yrs ago.
Couple fellow have seen ticks at the shooting range , sand poor grass, but hot , s.w. Sask. I spray the hell out of my pants and socks with deet, deep woods off.
My sister inlaw was in central B.C. for a couple years and ended up in care home , got so she could not walk, barely speak, no strength anywhere, and she passed away at 65. About 6 yrs ago.
Doc said she did not have Lyme , but everything I read , I don't know what else would do that.
"They" said it is not in B.C., I don't know , have not looked at the map yet.
Great write up.
Now that I think about it, use to spray once and a while for grasshoppers, usally the ditches, that may have helped.
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Funny thing, I lived in the county for 70 yrs, don't remember ever seeing a tick, moved to town and had a tick stuck to my arm about 5 yrs ago.
Couple fellow have seen ticks at the shooting range , sand poor grass, but hot , s.w. Sask. I spray the hell out of my pants and socks with deet, deep woods off.
My sister inlaw was in central B.C. for a couple years and ended up in care home , got so she could not walk, barely speak, no strength anywhere, and she passed away at 65. About 6 yrs ago.
Doc said she did not have Lyme , but everything I read , I don't know what else would do that.
"They" said it is not in B.C., I don't know , have not looked at the map yet.
Great write up.
Now that I think about it, use to spray once and a while for grasshoppers, usally the ditches, that may have helped.
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- Nova Scotia
I recomend saving your toilet paper tubes, the batten from old pillows, or cotton balls, and getting say ortho home defense. Spray the batten or cotton, stuffing the tubes, and laying them around your property.
Birds, or mice gather the cotton to make a gene, basically gets coated in permethrin and kills ticks.
Birds, or mice gather the cotton to make a gene, basically gets coated in permethrin and kills ticks.
I spotted this machine in victoria back in the early/mid 2000's.
Had a 4 Sale sign in it and the back story is about someone living with Lyme Disease.
They wanted 25k Canadian Dollars for it .
It eventually went to Barret Jacksons and sold for a measly 10K usd. (I found another link about price and claimed to have sold for 45k so idk)
They traveled the country educating people on Lyme Disease along with their adventure spirit.
This is prolly more for the shtf/survivalist thread, but they are living with Lyme Disease.
https://newatlas.com/oshkosh-expedition-class-awd-motorhome/3708/
Rob
Had a 4 Sale sign in it and the back story is about someone living with Lyme Disease.
They wanted 25k Canadian Dollars for it .
It eventually went to Barret Jacksons and sold for a measly 10K usd. (I found another link about price and claimed to have sold for 45k so idk)
They traveled the country educating people on Lyme Disease along with their adventure spirit.
This is prolly more for the shtf/survivalist thread, but they are living with Lyme Disease.
https://newatlas.com/oshkosh-expedition-class-awd-motorhome/3708/
Rob
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Hi, I've seen this thread a couple of times, and decided to comment on my experience.
About 5 years ago I was bitten by a Tick. I was at work when my stomach started to itch. The itching became bad enough that I went to the washroom to take a look to see if I was breaking out in a rash. I seen what looked like lint in my belly button. But brushing wouldn't remove it. I tried using my car keys to pry out the obstruction. And to my surprise it had legs!
I was very anxious at first, but after calming myself down, I made the assumption it was a Tick. I quickly Google searched on how to remove them, and walked to First Aid station for the tweezers. I reached in as far as I could and pulled, that thing was really latched on. I didn't want to squish it, or kill it. I had read to grab it by the head. A couple more tries, and one good pull and it came off. Took skin with it from inside my belly button. Which surprisingly hurt more than I expected.
My wife gave me some oil for the bite, Thieves I think it was. Poured some in my belly button. Felt like someone was putting a cigarette butt out in my belly button. DO NOT EVER PUT ANYTHING IN YOUR BELLY BUTTON!
I did get a rash, and some leakage out of my belly button. And after seeing a Couple Doctors they told me it was from the oil I put in. I did keep the tick to show them. But it was discarded, as they didn't think it was the type of Tick that carried Lyme. One Doctor told me that Lyme Disease isn't something that many Doctors here believe in. I never was tested, because I believed what she said.
It's just something I try to put out of my mind now. Being it was a long time ago. I wish I had been tested. I wish that the Dr's took it more seriously.
I will post a pic or 2 of the Tick when I get inside . Perhaps some of you would like to see. It had to of been in my belly button for a couple days, maybe even more.
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About 5 years ago I was bitten by a Tick. I was at work when my stomach started to itch. The itching became bad enough that I went to the washroom to take a look to see if I was breaking out in a rash. I seen what looked like lint in my belly button. But brushing wouldn't remove it. I tried using my car keys to pry out the obstruction. And to my surprise it had legs!
I was very anxious at first, but after calming myself down, I made the assumption it was a Tick. I quickly Google searched on how to remove them, and walked to First Aid station for the tweezers. I reached in as far as I could and pulled, that thing was really latched on. I didn't want to squish it, or kill it. I had read to grab it by the head. A couple more tries, and one good pull and it came off. Took skin with it from inside my belly button. Which surprisingly hurt more than I expected.
My wife gave me some oil for the bite, Thieves I think it was. Poured some in my belly button. Felt like someone was putting a cigarette butt out in my belly button. DO NOT EVER PUT ANYTHING IN YOUR BELLY BUTTON!
I did get a rash, and some leakage out of my belly button. And after seeing a Couple Doctors they told me it was from the oil I put in. I did keep the tick to show them. But it was discarded, as they didn't think it was the type of Tick that carried Lyme. One Doctor told me that Lyme Disease isn't something that many Doctors here believe in. I never was tested, because I believed what she said.
It's just something I try to put out of my mind now. Being it was a long time ago. I wish I had been tested. I wish that the Dr's took it more seriously.
I will post a pic or 2 of the Tick when I get inside . Perhaps some of you would like to see. It had to of been in my belly button for a couple days, maybe even more.
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That does not LOOK like a blacklegged tick, aka deer tick, but that doesn't mean the tick shown was not a carrier of Lyme Disease. I think there is a terrible amount of ignorance about this disease, and especially amongst the medical community. About three or four years ago, one of my hunting buddies had a tick imbedded in his back for a number of days before he saw it. But he did not have a bullseye rash, so his doctor told him he "COULD NOT" have Lyme Disease. The doctor did not prescribe antibiotics. The doctor should be shot with a ball of his own ####. My buddy now has Chronic Lyme Disease and has a hell of a time with all sorts of daily living type tasks. And he was an airborne snake-eating ultra-fit Canadian soldier. Not now.
I have had six or maybe eight ticks embedded in me, and many more on my skin and clothing. I have had the Doxycycline (not sure of the spelling) antibiotic many times now and to the best of my knowledge I am Lyme-free. But I also now spray all of my hunting exterior clothing with permethrin.
We need to educate our outdoors community, and we REALLY need to educate our medical professionals about this scourge.
Doug
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- Nowhere, ......just past the middle
Wtf kind of weird ass tweezers are those that have the nubs that won't allow the ends to touch? Sorry, first thing I noticed. Hope you don't have Lyme's.
Thanks Jay for the very informative OP.
Very scary. Lyme disease is ruining lives and our medical system is largely incompetent with respect to this disease.
It is sad that Canada has not approved permethrin tick spray for clothing which is readily available in the USA. And yet it can be obtained and applied to livestock here.
I ordered online a bottle of Martin's permethrin 10%. I understand the dilution for applying to clothing is 0.5%. That means that one part 10% permethrin is supposed to be mixed with 19 parts water. I have not applied it to my outdoor clothing yet, so I need to do that ASAP.
I have read that when treated clothing is wet and hanging to dry, do not let your pet cat near it as liquid permethrin solution is very toxic to cats. But once the permethrin dries it bonds to the clothing fibers and its no longer a danger to cats.
Very scary. Lyme disease is ruining lives and our medical system is largely incompetent with respect to this disease.
It is sad that Canada has not approved permethrin tick spray for clothing which is readily available in the USA. And yet it can be obtained and applied to livestock here.
I ordered online a bottle of Martin's permethrin 10%. I understand the dilution for applying to clothing is 0.5%. That means that one part 10% permethrin is supposed to be mixed with 19 parts water. I have not applied it to my outdoor clothing yet, so I need to do that ASAP.
I have read that when treated clothing is wet and hanging to dry, do not let your pet cat near it as liquid permethrin solution is very toxic to cats. But once the permethrin dries it bonds to the clothing fibers and its no longer a danger to cats.
Is this Doxycycline the commonly prescribed antibiotic for lyme or when lyme is suspected after a bite ?
I used these on our turkey hunt this year. Me and my kid had zero ticks and everyone else was picking them off at the end of the day.
Little pricey but well worth it. When I went near my buddies legs that had a tick the tick would act all erratic and confused right before we brushed them off.
https://ticklessusa.com/
Little pricey but well worth it. When I went near my buddies legs that had a tick the tick would act all erratic and confused right before we brushed them off.
https://ticklessusa.com/
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