Lyme disease

sucks! where was he camping?


Lyme isn't all that common in these parts

Somewhere near Lafayette I think.


All of our deer we killed this past week were covered in ticks

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All of our deer we killed this past week were covered in ticks

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all of ours usually are but what I mean is ticks with lyme disease are "low risk" here






Not downplaying this, just curious of the details because of it

Can be a real bitch to get rid of, even with meds.

Good luck to him.

Lyme is no joke. Good family friend still suffers from this. He got bit over 10 years ago.

If he got bit one week and then blood tested the next week for Lyme's disease he would not show symptoms that quick. It takes a minimum of 30 to 6 months to manifest in your body to a point it is detectable.....he most likely contracted it earlier in the year from possibly other tick bits. just some FYI....not starting a fight here. Just have three different friends that have battled it for years

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It is a lot more than most people think

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This. I picked up it in 2011. Don't believe the maps. Researchers are just now realizing how prevalent it is. The old theory that it was mostly commonplace in the northeast is fading out. It's in the south, and other regions too. The issue in the south is that people aren't aware of Lyme and their symptoms are frequently misdiagnosed.

Lyme is a very misunderstood and misdiagnosed so the prevlance in the south is very disputable because the diagnosis is so difficult to do and many will just treat it with antibiotics and go on so to get a positive is rare most wont test and the most accurate test results take a while and you dont want to delay treatment. I know a researcher that worked for Willy Burgdorfer who discovered the bacteria that causes lyme is named Borrelia burgdorferi. The odd thing is the disease was first recognised in and around Lyme Conn and is a north eastern disease, but she did all of her resarch working for Willy Burgdorfer in and around Savanna Ga very odd but we don't have it here in the south? we have deer we have deer ticks deer move people move deer? who knows and deer ticks are small size of a pencil lead the brown dog tick according to the government will not transmit Borrelia burgdorferi but if a deer tick takes a blood meal regurgitates which it does back into the body and the brown tick takes a blood meal also and moves along to another host how are we not protected from this blood born pathogen from the brown tick? if we are safe then we need to know what the hell that brown tick is doing to not transmit Borrelia burgdorferi to us after double dipping with the deer tick.
Tell your doctor you hunt and get bit by ticks and you want keep a bottle of doxycyclin in your first aid kit.

I had multiple appointments with your dad. Great guy.

I have a friend that contracted a meat allergy from a tick. He is now allergic to red meat. LINK