>shluuuurp>leaves bullseye to mark domain>nothing personal kid
>>2875313What makes me nervous is that I've been bitten by many a New English tick and often don't find them for a day or so and never got a bullseye rash but have been staggering around with Lyme-like symptoms for years :\
>>2875313Not so fast, nigga.
>>2875318Have you heard of doctors before?
>>2875322lyme tests always come back negative. I know two people who lived with it for years (my sister had through an entire pregnancy) and every test was negative. also I live in a non-Lyme country now and they don't even test people for it
Guys it's not that hard, go out in shorts and be white and every 5 minutes give your legs a quick look over. I can usually feel it when they're biting anywa.
>>2875325but if you're doing a multi-nighter you're wearing layers and sleeping innawoods and dealing with all kinds of terrain and that's when you get ticks up your dickhole
>>2875320>slow dive from treeyour cancer agent has no power here chud
>>2875318>>2875313Lyme seroprevalence in EU forestry workers: 15-22% (Belgium, France)Of those seropositive, asymptomatic rates ran ~45-90% depending on study/definitionBig systematic review (61 studies, 22 EU countries): ~50% asymptomatic overall — flagged as a real data gap, most seroprevalence studies don't track this wellUS Lyme vaccine trial: 7-11% seroconverted asymptomatically (not EU, often cited alongside)Belgium's self-reported symptom numbers are noisy — most people who claimed Lyme history weren't even seropositive>TLDR: roughly half of Lyme infections in Europe never show symptoms, going by the best available data.
>>2875344I had lyme disease and it showed up randomly on an unrelated blood test. They told me and gave antobiotics. That was it, no follow up to confirm it's gone. Idk the symptoms really so I can't tell if I ever had them but I believe it affects joints and I have gout so idk how to tell stuff apart then.
>>2875357>showed up randomly
>>2875360wym? I went for unrelated reasons and they told me 'you got borrelia'.
>>2875360I was just simulating what they may have seen under the microscope :]
>>2875367:3 gotcha
>>2875360kek>>2875357the symptoms covary with aging, this is why chronic lyme is 99% of the time old childless liberal white women
>>2875398what's the solution?
>>2875434https://youtu.be/svzTat79UFM
>>2875327Not my problem.
>>2875357maybe I should add I simply use picrel to spray on shoes and jackets and soak my socks, pants and hammock suspension (not the tree straps) in it. Idc. It's a trade off and I choose the cancer and titty growth accelerator over lyme and encephalitis.
Forget about Lyme... worry about Alpha Gal.
>>2875488had one of these fuckers on my neck. thankfully i had everything tucked in so that was the natural conclusion. but i had permethrin on my pants which meant he must have fallen from a tree.
>>2875517lucky.i don't know what I'd do if I wasn't able to eat red meat.ps: there's a conspiracy that this tick and illness was created in a lab.
I've caught 6 ticks on my body this season before they had the opportunity to bite. Skill issue really.
>>2875602>i don't know what I'd do if I wasn't able to eat red meat.Not eat red meat
>>2875488Northern beaches of SydneyBeautiful suburbs and beachesHighest concentration of ticsGet alpha galCan’t eat meat for a decadeFml
>>2875324I live in the southeast and got a tick bite with a bullseye rash in 2013. been bit by hundreds of ticks during my life, only that once did I get a bullseye rash. doctors refused to test me for it, claiming lyme is rare and I could come back if I got sick. I did have some weird stuff going on shortly after, but eventually went away and I have been fine(I think) ever since. who knows. insect bites can have localised reactions regardless of lyme they say, including bullseye rash simply from saliva.
>>2875915Damn :\Any other side-effects?Also, you'll be lucky if's only a decade.
>>2875488Got bit by one of these on the Delmarva peninsula. Didn't realize it was on me until I got home and went to shower. Had no idea how long it had been there, but it left a rash on me for over 3 months and itched like all hell. Didn't seem to affect my ability to eat the sacred cow though. Thank God almighty for that, I can't live without steak.
To be quite desu I hate leeches more, even though they apparently don't cause any diseases
>>2876227I didn't realise it at the time but while we were taking that video my socks were fucking full of leeches. One latched on and I pulled it off but then it bled for 3 days >:|
>>2876227which part of the world you in that you hate leeches more than ticks, transylvania?
>>2876323southeast Straya. we have ticks and there is the risk of tick paralysis and alpha-gal, but they are much less common in my area than leeches and leeches are fucking revolting to me
>>2876227I just hate how they move. I hate the probing nature of parasites.
>>2876502everything about them is foul. they hang on undersides of leaves and in the needles and twigs in murky swampen spots, and literally just wait for something to walk slither or hop past. and they're basically one single muscle with suckers on both ends and they'll latch on and feed like balloons and then drop into the dirt, slither into the muck, shit a bunch of babies out and then die. disgusting. all of it.
>>2875915western sydney chads stay winning get fucked cunt lol
>>2876537>western sydney
>>2876627
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>>2876323in australia, most leeches are terrestrial. they hang out on the leaves of ankle high plants to grab onto you as you go past then they climb up your pant legs or into your shoes. there are some that live in the soil and they'll go and find you if you're sleeping outdoors or sitting in one place for too long>>2876324in europe and north america (i think) leeches only live in water so you can only really get them if you go for a swim in a gross shitty pond or something, which is why they don't think of leeches as being a problem
>>2875313I hate these little niggers like you wouldn't believe.How do we not have an organic compound commercially available to apply to our skin and clothes to make ourselves unappetizing to these faggots? Are we retarded?There has to be something these woodland chiggers hate. Lavender? Wood ash? Someone needs to do some experiments.
>>2875320This plus deet.
>>2877142they probably hate possums
>>2875313This shit stops me for wanting to go camping. I know a few people with Lyme disease, and it completely destroyed their lives.
I have never seen a tick in my life Cali/PNW Chad
I’ve been trampling through the woods/grasses all summer too
>>2877142peppermint oil. dilute with mineral/veg oil and rub on skin
>>2877860I dunno about the people you know but lyme typically only really fucks you up if you let it go without treatment for an extended period of time. I caught it last year and a three-week treatment of antibiotics stopped all the symptoms and I've had no issues since. Obviously catching it isn't ideal but the idea of it shouldn't keep you from doing things you enjoy.
>>2875320based, i have a batch of old permethrin i've been meaning to spray all over my picnic tables>>2875811yeah it's a skill issue, i literally had one on my nutsack as a kid in nova scotia where ticks are rampant>>2876227ew yeah i had a few of those bathing in fresh water in new hampshire, non-salt water is filthy and full of parasites and disease>>2877142we have it, it's called permethrin, the problem is that ticks are arachnids so the chemical also kills based and redpilled spiders>>2877860it's fine, just check your legs, balls, brush your hair every night. ticks are subhuman parasites that can only be caught walking through tall grass if they spawn within a few feet of your path
>>2877864They're around you've just been lucky>>2877968This does nothing
>>2875488forget about that. some of them give tick borne encephalitis. its very common in northern europe iirc. there are cases of it in the US and it has killed people.there was some woman in maine who died last year from a tickbite.
>>2878275>common in northern europethats true. The upside: You can get a shot against it, unlike lyme.My mother told me she had someone in their family and people didn't explain it to her when she was a kid, she was simply vonfused about why she had to visit an aunt in a care home who was a 40 yo woman acting like 6yo. Apparently your development can simply halt at the time you get the disease.
Fucking hate ticks. I had 52 babies in me one time. Took my gf a whole day to remove them. I'd sat on a nursery.I've had about 15 other adults in me. 3 of them in my scrotum. One was in my arse crack and I was single at the time so had to squat over a mirror to get the fucker out. Not a pretty sight.
>>2878419Dude what the fuck
>>2878419Thanks for letting us know.
>>2875327>but if you're doing a multi-nighter you're wearing layers and sleeping innawoods and dealing with all kinds of terrain and that's when you get ticks up your dickholeis that a real problem?i once had a tick bite my dick when i was a kid.
ive had 100 ticks collect between my back and backpack but never had one actually bite meits like ants nest when you drop your pack and are about to sit on it for little rest not gonna lie i strip and beat the hell out of my shirt and that pack every time because it still feels wrong to carry them with me
>>2876227Not a fan of leeches either. Anything that sucks blood loves me for some reason. Went swimming in a lake in the forest in mazury, Poland with 9 other people. I was covered in leeches when I got out. Nobody else was. I swear I'm cursed.
>>2878432during a hot day i took a dip in a swamp and while i did not die in there and had to clean myself after with my cooking pot i still wake up from a nightmare few times every year rising from that water completely covered in leeches
>>2878375that is incredibly sadcompletely robbed of life and doomed to suffer for a bite from a shitty bug
i caught one of these fuckers on my hand today and it was there rubbing it’s front legs like the jew on the meme reaction pic
>>2876658I go /out/ all the time but if I had ticks where I live I would never hike again. I know this because I've been hiking in tick-interested areas and it wasn't even close to worth it. Constant paranoia and revulsion when I find one on me. Fuck that.
>>2879859I live in a particularly infested area on the east coast all you gotta do is treat your pants shirt socks and boots (takes like 2 minutes) tuck your pants into your socks and maybe check yourself after every outing and you're good. If you're camping you can treat your pack and tent too. If you're one of those people that hikes in shorts and sandals just check yourself carefully if you get em soon enough you won't get sick
I've now been in tick heavy pnw for a couple years, and while I remain scared and disgusted by them, it isnt all as bad as I thought. You learn which plant communities will have them in what season. I just look down after a section of trail I know had some and flick the ones on my pants off. Havent had a bite in over a year
>reading all these horrible stories about ticks above making me not want to go out into nature ever again>wait... what if it's all bots and propaganda so people stay inside consooming and remaining dumb and isolated
>>2879960This, theyre a good reminder to remain alert. but i gotta say sometimes i have nightmares involving them, makes me shid and piss my pants every single time>t. junglefucker
>>2875824Animal based protein*
If you aren't taking a single 200mg dose of Doxycycline after hiking in tick country (or any high risk sexual encounter) you are putting your health at risk for no reason. I take it all the time and I've never experienced even the mildest side effects. It's a risk free magic pill that hugely reduces your probability of getting Lyme.https://www.cdc.gov/lyme/resources/pdfs/lyme-pep-low-ink-p.pdfhttps://www.inhousepharmacy.vu/p-1861-doxybond-lb-100mg-doxycycline-lactic-acid-bacillus.aspx
>>2878432Same. I'm O- though; turns out theres a legit thing about mosquitos and other bloodsucking parasites zeroing in on me cuz of bloodtypeI work outdoors in the prairies. The ticks were insane this year. No real worries about alpha-gal tho
>>2878375Fuck, i'm sorry brah.
>enter a relative's garden and step on the grass for 5 minutes>multiple ticks>touch a bush once while hiking through a forest>ticki attract these little niggers like flies to shit
Remember that old horror movie about giant ticks mutated from genetically-altered pot plants?
>>2883530Are you calling yourself shit, anonyim?
>>2883652esl-kun...
