What's the protocol for ticks?

[GarGuy]

Tell your wife she has to suck the poison out or you are a goner!

[Clark]

Ticks...same as spiders.
Must be ground into a smudge on the concrete, as an example to other ticks and spiders.

Pretty sure its a law.

[Tex]

It was small. Deer tick.

I got bit last summer by a little tick. Didn't think much of it at the time. At the end of October I started getting sick. Felt like someone had beat me with a bat. Figured it was just the crude but it never would go away. Long story short I have Lyme Disease. If you get a bullseye pattern around the bite area go get a blood test.


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[coker737]

Is them boots a size 13? If so I have dib's

[AdamTex]

I got bit last summer by a little tick. Didn't think much of it at the time. At the end of October I started getting sick. Felt like someone had beat me with a bat. Figured it was just the crude but it never would go away. Long story short I have Lyme Disease. If you get a bullseye pattern around the bite area go get a blood test.


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I'm sorry to hear that.

Not trying to hijack this thread, but I dont know much about lyme disease.

What did they do to treat you? How does it effect you going forward?

[quarterback]

I got bit last summer by a little tick. Didn't think much of it at the time. At the end of October I started getting sick. Felt like someone had beat me with a bat. Figured it was just the crude but it never would go away. Long story short I have Lyme Disease. If you get a bullseye pattern around the bite area go get a blood test.


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Dude! Oh no! What area of the state did you get the tick? Do you remember if you had a bullseye ring at the time? Did it act worse than a normal tick bite? How long did it take you to figure out something was way wrong? Please let us know so we can be better at detecting these kinds of things. Thanks.

[hot_rod_eddie]

Not to scare you, but be careful. My mom got rocky mountain spotted fever. Took the docs a long time to figure it out. Took her a long time to get over it. She says that she still isn't the same and that was 5 years ago.

[Tex]

I'm sorry to hear that.



Not trying to hijack this thread, but I dont know much about lyme disease.



What did they do to treat you? How does it effect you going forward?

I can't remember what the medicine was. At first I was treated for a virus and the stuff they gave me made the Lyme disease worse. After weeks of not getting better I asked for a blood test and it came back positive. They then put me on a medicine that helped but it took three weeks before it helped.

Dude! Oh no! What area of the state did you get the tick? Do you remember if you had a bullseye ring at the time? Did it act worse than a normal tick bite? How long did it take you to figure out something was way wrong? Please let us know so we can be better at detecting these kinds of things. Thanks.

I hunt hogs all year long and one of the places I hunt in Burleson county is bad with ticks. I have found them on me even when I didn't kill anything. I found the tick about three days after one of my hunts. It was a little tiny thing. A few days after removing it I got a big round spot all around where he was. I just figured it was infected so I cut it open and put some ointment on it. It finally went away after a month but I never felt bad. It wasn't until the winter when I got sick.
From what I understand I could still have flare ups but so far so good.



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[Grizz83]

I was hunting hogs this weekend down on the coast by the Aransas Wildlife Refuge. Could've gotten the tick anytime Saturday or Sunday, and I just found it this morning. So it potentially has been on me for more than 48 hours. I stuck it in a ziplock bag after I yanked it off. It didn't appear that I got the head, but the SOB is still alive crawling around. Can they live without a head?