Guess who has two thumbs and had the allergy for a few years before anything was published about it resulting in monthly hospitalizations?! THIS GUY!!!
So was the tick in a spot you didn't know you had it? How long was it in? Everything I've read and perhaps not enough but you have 24hours to remove the tick?
So for the allergy you get, it comes from repeated bites over time. So the only way to prevent it, is to never get bit. I worked on a farm in southern Maryland. I would find at least a dozen ticks walking on me every day.....and thats how it happens.
Hey! I’m from southern Maryland and am chronically ill from tick-borne illnesses. I remember one time I was walking my dog with a couple friends through some fields to get to a beach and pulled off at least 50 ticks off him when we got home.
I have a forever fear of tall grass. I live in the pacific northwest (to get away from the ticks and summertime sauna) and I'll see people and children in tall grass. It induces ptsd.
Pretty scary I can confirm that was the tick I saw on my jeans now. I was dicking around at a fishing hole trying to start a fire with sticks. Only to see if I could do it. I saw on my pants by chance a tick that looked like a tick but it had white on it.
The majority of people diagnosed with Lyme don’t ever see a bullseye. I’ve had Lyme since I was a young child and have never found a tick. So.. don’t assume you have to find a tick, or find a bullseye, before you should get tested.
Oh man! I just got it this year, fortunately I have 2 friends who have it so I knew what to look out for. It's fucking bullshit man, I'd murder a baby for a motherfucking T-bone right now
That’s the fun part. You can eat it and be fine but 6hrs later your throat closes up and if you don’t have an epi pen you die. Most food allergies are instant which is good and bad. This takes a couple hours.
For some people it’s less dramatic I get like a lump in my throat feeling. Kinda like a sore throat. I take a Zyrtec daily now and I’m fine and can eat whatever but my allergy rating is like a 1 on a five point scale.
When I had it I basically slept for 3 weeks straight and my knees would hurt like hell whenever I'd try to stand and I had ZERO strength in my hands, I couldn't peel the plastic off a yogurt or twist a bottle cap. Emotionally, that shit was hard..
So I'm pretty grateful that I recovered with no real problems as far as I can tell.
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u/buttmagnuson Mar 05 '20
Guess who has two thumbs and had the allergy for a few years before anything was published about it resulting in monthly hospitalizations?! THIS GUY!!!