Dam Ticks

[fishinwrench]

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.

Thanks.

So I take it that once a doctor diagnoses a fella with THAT then he can't be expected to help you....but he still gets paid. Got it.

[Quillback]

F&F, best wishes on getting well.

I hate ticks.

[Feathers and Fins]

Doc said they have been seeing a lot more tick problems this year, blood work should be back in a few days to know what it is for certain. If its just a cold sucks if its tick sucks either way sucks lol. I am sure with the heart attack a little over a year out the Doc might be being very careful because of it being in my chest but either way im on the meds.

[oneshot]

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.

Yea and Bad thing is I have to have my Gallblader out in a couple weeks,plus to top it off I'm on Blood Thinners,Surgeon said I would still bleed more even though I'm off them a few days.

oneshot

[skeeter]

Yea and Bad thing is I have to have my Gallblader out in a couple weeks,plus to top it off I'm on Blood Thinners,Surgeon said I would still bleed more even though I'm off them a few days.

oneshot

Oneshot, I sure hope for your sake that your gallbladder removal can be done using the "scope" method rather than the old way. Not a whole lot to it with the "scope" with only about five little puncture wounds. Best of luck.

Used to be with Lyme disease, one of the early telltale signs was a circular red rash around the tick bite that looked like a typical bull's eye. Had the darn stuff in the early nineties and the Doc took one look at the rash, pulled out a medical book and showed me a picture of the bull's eye that had appeared on my leg and said "I'm saving you the cost of the blood work" and put me on oral antibiotics. From what I read back then, Lyme disease, left untreated, can result in some pretty serious, long-term heart problems. It's nothing to play around with.

[drew03cmc]

I was diagnosed with Lyme around June 5th or so. The symptoms included every symptom except a bullseye rash. I was darn near immobile for about a week, my ocular nerves were so inflamed that moving my eyes hurt, and I lost over 30 pounds in the month I was on doxycycline. The antibodies of the disease remain in your body and without notice can cause flare ups of any symptom. I have noticed that the only thing still affecting me is coffer. The acid in it causes an instant headache. If left untreated, LD can cause meningitis, neuropathy, facial palsy and arthritis. Get checked out.

[Quillback]

Scary stuff.

[Old plug]

WRENCH---.i think you know who Jane couch is. She is Jody's mother in law. Year before last she got to feeling bad and in a matter of hours was in a coma. They had a camera in her room and the Drs from national center for disease control and st. louis university were all over her for several weeks. I think they sent invesitgator out to the property to collect samples and everything else. She hovered around death for a long time. She recovered but they never did find out what it was but believe it was a tick bite.

[fishinwrench]

I have no doubts that a person can get bad sick from any kind of insect bite. Where my doubts lie is whether doctors can identify and cure it. You either get over it, or you don't.

I suspect that 90% of prescriptions filled across this country, for all varietys of ailments, are unneeded and unhelpful.....maybe even harmful to a degree.

I just don't have faith that the majority of folks in the healthcare field truly know WTF they are doing. I guess I salute them for trying but I'm not comfortable being one of their guinea pigs.

[Jack Jones]

I feel ya wrench. Medicine is like anything else. It takes years to build experience and exposure to a wide variety to be able to distinguish. I suspect most don't get that.