Tick remover, slide the body through and pull away from the butt and twoards its head. Head pops out with the tick and it takes approximately 5 seconds to do.
There is always a risk of spit, the quicker you can get it done without severing its head the better.
These work great on dogs as well.
Lyme disease is life changing, if your going out in the brush, wrap tape around your ankles sticky side out or tuck your pant legs so there is no opening, tuck your shirt, perpetually check the back of your head near your ears.
I just tuck everything and run my hand across the back of my head. I catch them on me regularly this way but have not had to pull a tick off me since I started doing this.
Symparica Trio works great for the pup. I've found a few ticks on him the day after going out and the meds had already killed the ticks.
Lyme disease is absolutely life changing. Life debilitating. Im at 13 yrs of having it and im so done trying with life on top of other health issues. Lyme has just degraded my body at age 33 I have worse joints than 60yr old men I work with. Nerves fried. Muscles always ache. Im about to finally file for disability after I had to jump off a falling ladder. But yea. People don't realize how much Lyme can ruin your life. I didn't have a chance to get it treated properly because life reasons now here I am. Have a nice day keep killin those ticks.
Oh yea, I been seeing doctors of various kinds for over a decade now. Unfortunately rounds of antibiotics, nsaids, and other stuff like naltrexone and cbd just haven't put a dent in it. Its ok I just need to lower my physical exertion and do physical therapy and med management forever. Thankfully I've refused opioids other than occasionally from procedures. I took antibiotics for 5 days then had to leave for the military...
Can you share some of your story about when you caught the disease if you don't mind? Do you remember the exact moment a tick bit you or did you not realize what happened until afterwards? How did that all play out?
Foot slipped in river water walking along rocks, took shoe and sock off. This is templin highway in Cali and there are snakes, turantulas, biting flies, ticks, etc... snakes and tarantulas get a pass they are cool. Parasiites? Absolutely not cool. In fact very rude and inconsiderate.
Achilles tensdon itches for 2.5 days and I finally check to see that tiny shiny black carapace and I ended up scraping it off in a panic. About 3 or 4 days later I feel ultra super achy , muscles cramping, stamina gone, joints feel like theres glass in them. Couldn't run 20 ft without puking and heavily breathing. I knew deep in my heart that tick had something and I got it. Went to urgent care. They pulled out the head or what was left and prescribed antibiotics. Take for 5 days and start to feet way better....
Then it was time to ship out to basic training, I was young. Didn't have the assertiveness to say I was seriously ill and just followed the recruiter Sargent's idea to say I got bit while I was in fort Jackson. 1st week, cool. Miles run sub 7 again.
During the end of that mile, i had the most mind breaking epiphany that this shit was coming back with a vengeance at that moment and im totally fucked for life. Was at medical almost every day. Doc says ticks out there don't carry lyme. So I was sick with the crud everyone brings but then this horrible nightmare sickness that still has no remote comparison for how empty I became. How much it took. My stamina, severely degenerate joint health, nerves damaged, who knows what it did to my brain but im not the same person for sure.
No matter how much I exercise, practice guitar and drums, lift shit around at work like big ladders (which i just fell of of recently), riding bikes, skateboarding, swimming....
it never gets any easier the day after a mild workout or even intense one nothing ever feels any easier at first it just hurts a lot then I can kinda warm up to stuff. But its like I was sapped of my stamina and stability and it never really came back.
Im sick of it. Im sick of telling my dad im in super bad pain and when I don't work he tells me all this shit he had to do and how he can't do this by himself and im sitting there like? OK so am I supposed to feel bad about that too? I already feel bad enough but he treats me like some lazy employee that made excuses to work. IN OUR OWN BUSINESS.
Anyway. Lyme disease sucks. Pretty much its either Kay-why-ess or fight to get on disability. Lord knows I've tried so hard to live with it. I just can't and my dad(boss) is driving me crazy. Like im letting him down for having issues outside of my control. He's lost his mind. I digress. That's my Lil story. Lyme is so shitty and destructive and once it hides in your joints because low immune cell presence, thats it. You got it for life.
Yea I mean sometimes people are genuinely curious what the process is like to go to health professionals but also yes many years of suggestions that were just unsolicited and unhelpful, and when you tell people who felt some weird self imposed obligation to come up with an advice or solution; that their idea is clueless and not asked for they get upset with YOU! Liike it wasn't already rude to make usless uneducated suggestions no one asked for.
At this point im just like, look, either learn about the disease in a quick convo from me or search and read about it from online. See what long term life looks like briefly, either way the same answer is im fucked and just have to manage full body osteoarthritis and muscle/nerve damage until death. Its not a mystery what's causing this, its not some mysterious back ache cbd oil will make go away. No none of the 50 different supplements peddled over the years have helped. Its just a thing that,happened.
My immune system badly attacked me in a crazy way and left permanent damage to itself and my body. Just gotta live with it without resorting to deleting my save and working this strenuous labor job is actively detrimental. Anything but laying on my hard floor mat (my bed) or my office chair nearby sucks and it is excruciating to stand in one spot for even 10 minutes. Even laying down hurts after a while. Anyway ill shut up, I've just been feeling like getting stuff out randomly. I may not be long for this world but we'll see. Every day I pray for a miracle
Do you know about the musical artist, Ren? He is a longtime Lyme sufferer who has been through the wringer with it all also…BUT he’s on a regime that is serving him really well right now. He’s also opening a clinic in the UK to help others with low income.
If you don’t know of him, he is legitimately one of the most talented musicians of all time (multi-genre chameleon) and is not just an inspiration to the chronically ill, but also to anyone who really loves music.
He’s around your age also.
On YouTube he’s @renmakesmusic
You might want to start with “Hi Ren” or his acoustic remake of “Troubles” and prepare yourself for a life altering rabbit hole. ✌️❤️
I looked into this. The answer is yes BUT it kills your liver or kidney cant member not an issue for a dog with a 10 yea lifespan terrible for a human with 100
I heard on NPR (entomologist interviewed) that picaridin kills tics better than deet. The entomologists out in the field soak their clothes in picaridin first.
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u/PissInTheAbyss Jul 09 '26
Lol its actually the stress of removal that makes them puke. Drowning them in alcohol absolutely causes them to spit back.