TICKS!

Oh no! You're going to get long covid now, so sorry.

Ticks are awful. The worst is when you see an especially fat bastard on you and realize it's like that because it's been feasting on you.

Your blood must be delicious. Tick trouble is a compliment.

Can I have your stuff, OP?

OP, you cover your flowers with cloches?

Time for the annual tick removal by crows vid

Ugh

Under eyelid is even worse

Admit it, OP, you were getting fucked in the bushes again, weren’t you whore?

Pick ones off you, preferably with your blood. Put them in a jar and add your piss and vinegar. Place in the back of the freezer.

Now that I’m Oder the ticks cause itching. When I was younger I’d find an imbedded tick and say “how the hell did it get there? I don’t feel a thing.” But I feel them now.

Last year my knee itches. I said “that’s so itchy it must be a mosquito bite.” Scratched and scratched, no bump raised up. Just red marks where I’d scratched. No black or brown dot where a tick might be.

Next day, same thing. Itched and itched. No bump. No black or brown dot . Third day, itched again but that day I saw a tiny black dot in the center. Took a photo with my camera, englarged it and saw legs on it. It was soooo tiny I could barely see it. But that thing had been imbedded in my knee for 3 whole days and was too small to be seen for 2 of those days.

[quote] Now that I’m Oder

Wow. Thought I’d typed “elder” but spellcheck decided otherwise. Guess I’m a minor Norse god

Attack of the nostril ticks

Tick in boy’s eardrum — that drawing doesn’t show a tick in the eardrum,btw. There’s a photo of the tick-in-eardrum in the article

Ear tick

Got Lyme from a tick. Destroyed my life. Completely debilitated me and doctors could not find cause. Then tested for Lyme. No cure and symptoms will last forever.

I would never have thought a tick could destroy your life. It can. Be careful.

so, you getting a check?

R16 = Yolanda Hadid?

I have a friend whose father got the alpha-gal mammalian meat allergy from a tick. Most people who get Lyme cycle through it and are fine. Being allergic to mammal protein is a real life-changing event. He didn’t even know what he had for months and months until the dots were connected.

I try to get them off as soon as possible but have been bitten hundreds of times over my life and hope I’m okay. It’s just a fact of life if you want to be outside on the east coast for half of the year.

Fortunately, it seems like they are worse in Spring where I live so it’s soon to be over.

Last year they were horrible. This year they came out and then it warmed and we got a few hard freezes. They are not so bad this season, neighbor.

A friend who likes to hike in the woods says that the Permethrin clothing sprays are the only effective prevention. Since I basically live in the woods I bought some. It's either that or spray the entire yard and that would really only protect me in the yard and would kill all the bees as well

Powassan virus is now a concern as well: recent death of a CT man.

R21, use it every year on two complete outfits. I mark places on each with fabric marker or a red embroidered-stitch and retreat one a month during the tick season.

Holy shit R22. I didn’t know about Powassan virus.

Oh no. There’s another one. “Heartland Virus.”

My car broke down on the highway last summer. When the tow truck driver got there, he told me to stand on the asphalt nearer to the car, because ticks were bad in the weeds where I was standing when he got there. I went home and put my clothes into the washer and took a shower. About 2 months later, I was itching on my back near my shoulder and was using all manner of implements to scratch with. Finally, one evening I had a friend look, and a tick was embedded in that spot. She's a Surgical nurse and removed it. It has freaked me out ever since. It was under the skin and huge. Just the thought of it makes me feel anxious. Just watch walking anywhere where there's tall weeds or if you hike anywhere. I've not had any complications from it, but it still freaks me the hell out.

OP Maybe stop cruising in the woods.

I heard on Facebook that ticks could give you the AIDS! Who knew?!!!

Got lyme's , didnt find out for ten years , it was hell. Treated ( a month of antibiotics 4x a day. Live in fear that it will come back. It goes dormant.

This tick bite is hellishly itchy and painful. I’m using neosporin with benzocaine on it.

When I first scratched myself through my shirt, think I had a random itch, the bump I felt was the size of a tumor. I really kind of freaked out. When I pulled out the Rick I was surprised at how small it was. Judging by the feel of the bite through my shirt I expected to pull out a fully engorged dog tick. But it was a tiny thing. It sure packs a hell of a bite though. It’s still red and raised. Guess it has a few more days before disappearing.

I wonder why some tick bites are worse than others? Is it the type of tick ? Deer tick vs dog tick vs lone star tick? Or the stage? Nymph vs adult? The place where it bites? Atop a bony knee vs soft tissue, like abdomen? I can discern a male lone star tick when I see one but other than that I can’t tell wtf type of ticks I take off me. I take a bunch off every spring.

Thi#chas to be a photo from a research project where they tipped a test tube full of tick onto someone’s skin.

Well now I’m mysteriously getting fleeting nausea that turns into vomiting after a few hours. I have a headache and when I went to get seen at a hospital for a research project for which I’m a Guinea pig my blood pressure is high. I’m check8ng the tick bite. It’s not gone yet but it’s not as swollen & itchy and there’s no rash, just the red bite. My dr is a 3 hr round trip away and I’m afraid to drive there because I’m afraid I’ll have to pull off the expressway and vomit on the side of the road with tractor trailers whizzing past me. I don’t feel sick enough to go to a walk in

I can’t figure out what the vomiting is due to. I’ll suddenly get just a tiny touch of nausea and then it disappears. First time it happened I thought, “Gas.” But now when. I feel just the tiniest bit of nausea I know I’m gonna be puking. But I never heard of transient nausea & vomiting being a prominent tick disease symptom. I don’t puke every day. Just about two days a week.

Ticks, like yellowjackets, are species that we would all be better off without. They should go extinct. I would advocate for extirpating them from the face of the earth, but I don't know how one would totally eradicate these hideous demon-things without hurting harmless or helpful species of insects.

Try some strong ginger for the nauseousness. . If you don't like pickled, try Gin-Gins. Hoping you're on the mend soon.

Where the fuck do you people live???

[quote]I would never have thought a tick could destroy your life. It can. Be careful.

The same can be said for dicks and AIDS.

[quote] Where the fuck do you people live???

The Hamptons

Pennsylvania is the worst place in the country now for ticks/Lyme.

Was gardening yesterday…pried 2 ticks from myself today. They’re so tiny and I have so many brown spots on me I would never find them if they didn’t get little red marks around them. The one on my leg didn’t itch but I saw it when I was putting lotion on after taking a shower. Then I found one on my groin tonight. I found it because it was itchy. I take photos of them with my phone and enlarge the pic to make sure it’s a tick and not a brown spot. The pics sometimes come out blurry but I can make out the wispy legs around the brown circle.

When I remove them with tweezers I’m amazed at how tiny they are. They say deer ticks are as tiny as a poppy seed. They’re even smaller than that. I looked at one under a magnifying glass and could make out a tiny white dot, so it was a female lone star tick.

[quote] Took 3 runners off me

OP, what does this mean?

They are as unpleasant as leeches.

[quote] OP, what does this mean?

The OP explains what a runner is. Pay attention