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i just got bitten by a tick, am i a goner?

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am i a goner?

  • yes

    Votes: 22 75.9%

  • no

    Votes: 7 24.1%
  • Total voters
    29
Muse said:
Gotta say, this thread is making me skittish about hiking, wilderness, etc., which I love as much as the next person, but dang... ticks? Mosquitos are bad enough but ticks! RMSF, lyme, etc. Pulling the buggers out with tweezers, inspecting, using a match. I mean lyme, the symptoms are things that I think about just in day to day living. I feel tired and weak sometimes, I suppose most everyone does. Don't want to have to be wondering if I have lyme (which I've wondered at times over the last 10-15 years).
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Then you need to stay in the house. Paranoia is an amazing thing.
 
brianmanahan said:
i am still alive and no symptoms yet, aside from itchiness on my arm and some headaches (which i usually have all the time but these are on the other side of my head)

i think i'm done hiking though... just gonna stick to the road and paved paths. no more walks in the woods and grasslands for me.
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Don't get under any trees as they can and will drop down on you too from the trees.

😱
 
pcgeek11 said:
Don't get under any trees as they can and will drop down on you too from the trees.

😱
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seriously, i am getting more apprehensive about doing stuff every year

pretty much done with traveling after COVID

now this has soured me on the whole outdoors thing

i fully expect to never go outside by the time i am 50, if i even live that long
 
brianmanahan said:
seriously, i am getting more apprehensive about doing stuff every year

pretty much done with traveling after COVID

now this has soured me on the whole outdoors thing

i fully expect to never go outside by the time i am 50, if i even live that long
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you can always count on an Iron Woode Poam
 
pcgeek11 said:
Then you need to stay in the house. Paranoia is an amazing thing.
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TBH, I've never not done any outdoors activity because I was afraid of ticks or anything else except for covid-19. Now that I'm fully mRNA vaccinated, I'm not afraid of that either. I would say I'm anything but paranoid.
 
Muse said:
TBH, I've never not done any outdoors activity because I was afraid of ticks or anything else except for covid-19. Now that I'm fully mRNA vaccinated, I'm not afraid of that either. I would say I'm anything but paranoid.
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Well the post below that you made it sounds like you are.


Muse said:
Gotta say, this thread is making me skittish about hiking, wilderness, etc., which I love as much as the next person, but dang... ticks? Mosquitos are bad enough but ticks! RMSF, lyme, etc. Pulling the buggers out with tweezers, inspecting, using a match. I mean lyme, the symptoms are things that I think about just in day to day living. I feel tired and weak sometimes, I suppose most everyone does. Don't want to have to be wondering if I have lyme (which I've wondered at times over the last 10-15 years).
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pcgeek11 said:
Well the post below that you made it sounds like you are.
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Well, I'm just reading the thread. I was talking about past behavior, which has never been paranoid. Anyway, what's your problem with me? If you want, I can engage in a flame war and come up with things to call YOU! Is that what you're trying to do here, provoke a flame war??? Your motivation is suspect to say the least. Are you trying to get on my ignore list? There's room, you know...
 
Muse said:
Well, I'm just reading the thread. I was talking about past behavior, which has never been paranoid. Anyway, what's your problem with me? If you want, I can engage in a flame war and come up with things to call YOU! Is that what you're trying to do here, provoke a flame war??? Your motivation is suspect to say the least. Are you trying to get on my ignore list? There's room, you know...
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Flame war? Dude you need to relax. I didn't "call" you anything. I only pointed out that you seem paranoid about ticks and such. Sorry you have really thin skin.

Why is my motivation suspect?

I really do not care about your dreaded ignore list. I actually think it is a funny threat. Please don't put me on your Ignore List...
 
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Last time I had a tick I was doing mushrooms and rolling around on the ground in the woods with friends while laughing my ass off. Woke up in the morning with one buried in my neck😱
 
BudAshes said:
Last time I had a tick I was doing mushrooms and rolling around on the ground in the woods with friends while laughing my ass off. Woke up in the morning with one buried in my neck😱
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whoaaa

did you have a skin hurt for days? the tick didn't even get stuck in my skin, but where it bits me is still swelled a little and the whole forearm feels like it has a skin hurt now.
 
brianmanahan said:
whoaaa

did you have a skin hurt for days? the tick didn't even get stuck in my skin, but where it bits me is still swelled a little and the whole forearm feels like it has a skin hurt now.
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GF yanked it out and I was fine. I don't wtf a skin hurt is, sounds like something a 3 year old would say. Maybe the Lyme disease is giving you brain damage? 😱

I had always heard the tick had to buried in you a while for you to get infected with anything serious. Some people just react poorly to tick bites though. My co-worker swelled up from a bite and needed anti-biotics and it only got him for a few minutes. My skin doesn't really react to bug bites that badly. I'd say if it's still swollen and hurts after a few days I'd go to the doctor and see if you need anti-biotics.
 
BudAshes said:
I don't wtf a skin hurt is, sounds like something a 3 year old would say. Maybe the Lyme disease is giving you brain damage? 😱
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seriously you've never had a skin hurt? like it just hurts to touch the skin against anything. sort of like an itch/burn. i gotta keep that forearm off my desk now, otherwise it drives me crazy.
 
Sounds like the tick just gave you the covid-19 vaccine. 😛

Seriously though I'd go get checked out at this point. That bite was maybe actually enough to get lyme and maybe that's the start of the reaction.
 
Red Squirrel said:
Sounds like the tick just gave you the covid-19 vaccine. 😛

Seriously though I'd go get checked out at this point. That bite was maybe actually enough to get lyme and maybe that's the start of the reaction.
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I'd probably be more worried about Cellulitis which is pretty common but needs to be treated with anti-biotics as it can lead to serious infection.
 
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