Dam Ticks

[Feathers and Fins]

Well, last 3 days I have been feeling really tired and generally sickish. Started getting dizzy, hard time breathing and major cough yesterday and made the appointment to see the doc. Blood work drawn now waiting to see if its Rocky Mountain or Lyme. Either way im on meds.

Sucks a little bug can knock you down, love the blurry vision I have to type in a large font then minimize it after. Doc said lots of cases coming in this year so don't mess with tick bites.

[tho1mas]

Come on duck season - no ticks then. They effect me for about three weeks, but so far no lyme or RMF.

Get well & shot some ducks.

[fishinwrench]

I suspect that over the years I have been periodically under the influence of a bad tick bite because I can remember feeling real lethargic/puny for a period of time (as much as a month or a little more) with muscle and joint aches similar to what I hear described by folks diagnosed with Lymes or whatever that other one is you hear about all the time.

I'm one of these guys that never goes to the doctor though unless I break a bone or need stitches so all I know is that whatever I had I got over it on my own....or at least I feel like I did.

What are the alleged risks of just letting the crap run its course and allowing your body fight it on its own?

I just really have little faith in the medical field, which is kinda odd since both my parents were in it.

Just seems that if you take two guys with the same problem...One goes to the doctor and gets prescribed something, and the other just tuffs it out.....They both are completely over the illness at the same time.

I have a cousin that goes to the doctor everytime he sneezes, he's been "diagnosed" with just about every illness under the sun and has taken more meds in his life than I even wanna think about. Ain't nothin' ever been wrong with that boy, but if one doctor says he can't find anything wrong with him he'll keep changing doctors until someone gives his "illness" a name and prescribes him something.

I guess I'm just curious to see if I outlive the ol' hypochondriac.

[bfishn]

Epitaph of a hypochondriac;

"I told you I was sick!"

Lyme's nothing to mess with, good health soon F&F.

[oneshot]

Seems a lot of this,this year I spent 5 days in the Hospital because of a Tick,had to be operated on to cut infection out still have MRSA.

oneshot

[fishinwrench]

Seems a lot of this,this year I spent 5 days in the Hospital because of a Tick,had to be operated on to cut infection out still have MRSA.oneshot

Yikes! What is MRSA? and what are its symptoms? If general laziness and just wanting to lay around are a symptom then I've had that since I was about 12 years old.

Hell, you seem to get out and do more than I ever feel like doing

[moguy1973]

Are you sure it's from the ticks and not from the cold that is going around right now? I had it last week, my wife has it this week. Symptoms are similar to what you described. Tight chest, major cough, light headed, etc. We had runny nose, headache and fever too though.

Hopefully that is all it is. It was in and out of me within about 5 days, although a slight cough has lingered even through today for me.

[jdmidwest]

I got a dose of seed ticks last weekend, either from the farm or at the pullout on the St. Francois. Took me a while to find what was itching me, dam eyes are getting too dim to see the little spots.

[E Green]

the medical opinions on all things tick related are widespread and the conclusions on such subjects minimal.....look into it all...it will blow your mind

[Kayser]

Wrench- MRSA stands for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, a type of staph infection that is resistant to most antibiotics. It can lead to necrotic wounds and possibly blood poisoning, eventually causing sepsis. Nasty stuff.