I found a tick crawling up my neck...

"Highlander-Datsuns are Forever" (jamesbowland) 04/22/2019 at 10:40 • Filed to: None

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I don’t even know where it came from. It could have been on my jacket or hanging out on my neck all night long waiting to start sucking my blood.

I did a mandatory disrobe and 100% tick check in the mirror. I am still shaken from this experience.

DipodomysDeserti > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 04/22/2019 at 10:46

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My buddy got l yme disease while in the Army. Scary shit.  

Tripper > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 04/22/2019 at 10:48

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I swear I find them on myself more than the dogs! I’ve had lymes disease once before, it was fucking terrible!

Akio Ohtori - RIP Oppo > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 04/22/2019 at 10:48

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Found two crawling around my gentleman’s region.  I’d been hiking like... 4+ hours previous and had already changed clothes.  I hate ticks.

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > Akio Ohtori - RIP Oppo 04/22/2019 at 10:50

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I had one attached to my gentleman’s region when I was a young man. Not a good day for sure.

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > Tripper 04/22/2019 at 10:50

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Oh man, I do not want lyme disease. I hear it’s a bitch to get rid of.

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > DipodomysDeserti 04/22/2019 at 10:51

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Oh man, I do not want lyme disease. I hear it’s a bitch to get rid of.

Ash78, voting early and often > Akio Ohtori - RIP Oppo 04/22/2019 at 10:51

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T on the D?

Chariotoflove > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 04/22/2019 at 10:52

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Ticks were one of the many good reasons I left off Boy Scouts at a young age. 

facw > Tripper 04/22/2019 at 10:55

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I find them frequently on my parents’ dog when I take him on hikes. I haven’t ever found one on me, so hopefully I haven’t missed any.

Regardless, I’m fairly annoyed that they stopped making the human approved lyme vaccine, I would feel a lot better with it. Tick city here in MA.

DipodomysDeserti > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 04/22/2019 at 11:00

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Contracting the disease is pretty rare, but yeah, it’s a bitch. In his case the Army gave him a bs treatment that doesn’t work and told him he was gtg. Wasn’t until years later that he was diagnosed with the disease after experiencing  chronic joint pain.

Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap > Akio Ohtori - RIP Oppo 04/22/2019 at 11:01

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I went hiking a few weeks ago and that's what happened to me as well. I dont think I've fully recovered my sanity 

farscythe - makin da cawfee! > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 04/22/2019 at 11:03

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i keep finding them on me cats... somehow never found one on meself

wich is surprising considering how much time i spend failing to dodge bushes and trees

This is what we'll show whenever you publish anything on Kinja: > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 04/22/2019 at 11:03

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A little something for your lyme.

The Ghost of Oppo > DipodomysDeserti 04/22/2019 at 11:06

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Can confirm, have lyme. What is really scary is how little we understand lyme, and why i t affects everyone in a different way/symptoms.

Tripper > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 04/22/2019 at 11:10

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So I was bitten close to my head (on my collarbone). Apparently the closer to your head the worse the symptoms are. I thought I was going to die. Of course I was on vacation in bumblefuck, and had to go to bumblefuck hospital where I had to make three trips . One to have the obvious bulls eye rash diagnosed as sun burn, again to see another doc who prescribed something that made me even sicker, and then once more to get the proper drugs. It went away quickly after I got the proper treatment but easily the worst week of my life.

diplodicus forgot his password > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 04/22/2019 at 11:41

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Do you toss your clothes into the dryer on high heat after?

You can also soak your clothes in permethrin before going into the woods if you don’t have cats.

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > diplodicus forgot his password 04/22/2019 at 11:48

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Good idea, I’m wearing clothes right out of my dresser. I think the tick might have been on my jacket or dog and then got onto me.

diplodicus forgot his password > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 04/22/2019 at 11:55

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Ya once tick season starts I try and check my dog before we get in the car, check her again at home. Strip down toss the clothes in the dryer and shower both of us, cause I still don’t know wtf poison ivy looks like. I picked 16 ticks off of her once, did not sleep good that night.

DipodomysDeserti > The Ghost of Oppo 04/22/2019 at 12:42

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Yeah, the Army dropped the ball and my friend wasn’t diagnosed until he’d had it for years. It was only caught because he went to a joint specialists for chronic pain  who happened to have studied lyme disease.

smobgirl > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 04/22/2019 at 13:17

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I still have a scab from the one that bit me two weeks ago. They’re so gross.

wkiernan > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 04/22/2019 at 13:34

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I got it once. Go to a walk-in clinic and get tested, it’s cheap. If you catch it early enough they can wipe it out with ordinary antibiotics.

wkiernan > Tripper 04/22/2019 at 13:41

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When I got diagnosed with Lyme disease they gave me some kind of antibiotic, something similar to penicillin, which made me so, so sick. After taking those pill s for a few days as prescribed, in the middle of the day I went from “perfectly fine” to “can’t think, can’t walk, what hit me?” in about a half hour. So I called the clinic and said what’s happening? and when I told the doctor the antibiotic I was taking, which he himself had prescribed, he said, oh, nothing to worry about, the same thing happens to everybody who takes that stuff. Sure did wipe out the Lyme disease, though!

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > smobgirl 04/22/2019 at 13:43

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Fingers crossed this one never attached itself to me.