Deer Tick Bite

Vil_Riker said:
no real treatment at that point, that's why.
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If the rash develops within 72 hours after the tick bite has occurred it's not too late for treatment. If treatment is delayed because the rash takes longer to develop antibiotics will be increasingly less effective.
 
Ironically just pulled a deer tick of me. Usually I don’t react to ticks but this one I am—but I think all the other ticks I’ve had were dog ticks. Bagged the sucker and will monitor. Feels like I got punched in the leg. If it still bugs me on Monday I’ll call the doc and have it looked at.
 
Al said:
Put me in the hospital four days. Sickest I have been. Learned my leson....tick spray on my skin
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I got ehrlichiosis from a tick bite on my wrist, while vacationing in TN. It was on me for mere seconds, I got out of the car upon arrival in TN, walked into a trail entrance, felt it move on my wrist and pulled it off. I did not make it more than 3 feet into the trail.

Got home to FL, and became very ill. I was on the floor of the emergency room, with a 104+ fever, for about 6 hours. Those idiots at Jupiter hospital simply ignored my condition until I was almost gone. It took some high doses of Doxycyclene to knock that out.
 
Good stuff everyone. I was not aware of other tick-borne diseases besides Lyme disease.

I have a good pocket hand lens to assist identifying tick species. This time of year we find ticks on ourselves or our dog several times a week - we live on a farm/work outdoors. At age 67, none of us have ever gotten sick from them.............keep the good Karma coming, please.

What's unnerving is finding one crawling on you AFTER a thorough shower.
 
doitmyself said:
Good stuff everyone. I was not aware of other tick-borne diseases besides Lyme disease.
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https://www.cdc.gov/ticks/diseases/index.html

The worst infection in terms of being potentially lethal you can catch from a tick is Rocky Mountain spotted fever. The rest of them is no picnic either and some of them can cripple you for the rest of your life.

You can buy or make a tick removal tool, from a thin piece of a rigid piece of plastic. Cut a triangular slot into one edge and bevel the two cuts. Slide the slot under the tick's head and the tick should come out without the head or the proboscis coming off and remaining in the skin. Don't use tweezers because squeezing a tick will make it pump a high bacterial load into your bloodstream/tissue. The earlier a tick is removed the lower the pathogen load. and the better the chance of avoiding infection altogether. You should also keep the tick or ticks you have removed for lab work if needed later. Keep the dead tick/ticks in a polybag next to your wife's frozen Hungry Man Dinner.

 
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While stationed at Barstow MCLB, we had a butter bar come in fresh from Quantico. He was only on station for about 2 weeks when he started feeling ill. He was told he probably had the flu. He left the base to drive back east to pick up his wife and child with the intent on bringing them back to California. He died on the trip there. Sad.

We thought he had probably gotten bit while on maneuvers at Quantico.
 
Hillbilly Deluxe said:
You need to get under the care of a Lyme Literate MD as soon as possible for the comprehensive testing ($3000+).

Most of the Lyme-Literate MD/testing/etc will not be covered under any insurance, they might pay but you will pay out of pocket and then file.


This is nothing to play with. The sooner you are examined, tested and treated if Lyme, the better.

My wife is going through this right now. She has a book of symptoms, including seizure-like episodes (she was diagnosed previously with Epilepsy, although no Neuro will say that you "develop" Epilepsy, especially in your 50's), zombie-like activity, where she either stops participating in a conversation, acts like she's sleep walking (while in an office setting) or she has "passed out" and found herself in the bedroom floor (all of these after a "seizure" in the middle of the night).

The 'seizure' activity didn't involve the convulsions on the floor, they were mainly periods of non-responsiveness after something woke me up in the middle of the night I nudged her, she would not respond for 60-90 seconds, I mean NO RESPONSE, I was trying to roll her over in the bed like rolling a log over on the ground. Nothing. She wore a heart monitor for 30 days, on one day (midnight and 7 am), it caught a 20-second pause and 13-second pause in heart rhythm. She was sent to an electrophysiologist who wants to put in a pacemaker.

The LLMD shook her head.

Anyway, I can go on, but again, this can be serious. Lyme is not seriously recognized by many in the medical community because the CDC does not fund much study on it. It's a political football.

Use the Google. Lyme Literate MD in your area. There's supposedly a highly educated Doc in the DC area on this.
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He doesn't say but most likely he was put on antibiotics (doxycycline). So it was discovered and treated right away. He should be fine. It's when you don't have bad symptoms and it's not treated quickly that you have problems. In humans only 50% will get the bullseye.
 
The problem with Deer ticks is that they are very small and hard to see. The nymph stage is a tiny black dot and very difficult to see. It is infective at that stage. I tested positive for Lyme and never saw a tick, red rash or a tick on my dog. I was sick for a couple of days and a couple weeks later I woke up with Bell's Palsy on the right sede of my face. They ran a bunch of tests and found that I was positive for Covid and Lyme. Don't know which one gave it to me.
 
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