jdmidwest Posted April 29, 2020 Share Posted April 29, 2020 Performing a little study here. All that are out there that have went thru Radiation Therapy for Cancer. Have you noticed that ticks are not a problem any more???? 3 years ago since the radiation and I don't think a tick has bothered to latch on to me. Maybe it my new spidey sense and I detect them crawling on me sooner. Sunday, I waded thru the same stuff checking game cams with my buddy and he had several ticks that stuck. I did not even see one. The SOBz used to swarm me every time on the farm before, between the tick dropping Great Pyronees dog, the tick magnet horses, and all of the lousey tick infested deer spreading them all over. But, zapped with 6 weeks of radiation and I seem to be repellent to ticks. Buffalo gnats still swarm me with vigor, mosquitoes still like to drain me. All other low level invertebrates like to bother me. But the lowlife tick seems to know something and stay off. Not that I am complaining, just trying to find the upside from getting zapped beyond Chernoybl at close range. And performing a little scientific study. "Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously." — Hunter S. Thompson Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MOPanfisher Posted April 29, 2020 Share Posted April 29, 2020 Not radiation but after the big chemo hit and daily chemo pill, ticks didn't want nothing to do with me, I used to get them all the time, they never made big itchy spots like they do my wife. Oddly with new stuff happening they stopped my daily chemo pill for a a couple weeks and have picked 3 or 4 that had decided to try me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fishinwrench Posted April 29, 2020 Share Posted April 29, 2020 From a biologists standpoint that wouldn't make any sense...but I've heard others that have undergone cancer treatment say the same thing about ticks and chiggers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BilletHead Posted April 29, 2020 Share Posted April 29, 2020 Well I will debunk that theory, Pat has had doses of both. ticks and chiggers still love her as I still do. And then there are those oak leaf itch mites that come around in late summer and fall. Those too. Last Monday was her diagnosis anniversary she is now a 14 year survivor! Whoop, whoop! kjackson, MOPanfisher, Deadstream and 1 other 4 "We have met the enemy and it is us", Pogo If you compete with your fellow anglers, you become their competitor, If you help them you become their friend" Lefty Kreh " Never display your knowledge, you only share it" Lefty Kreh "Eat more bass and there will be more room for walleye to grow!" BilletHead " One thing in life is for sure. If you are careful you can straddle the barbed wire fence but make one mistake and you will be hurting" BilletHead P.S. "May your fences be short or hope you have long legs" BilletHead Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdmidwest Posted April 29, 2020 Author Share Posted April 29, 2020 3 years ago May 4, I started my 6 week stint. Maybe they just don't like me anymore. BilletHead 1 "Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously." — Hunter S. Thompson Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oneshot Posted April 29, 2020 Share Posted April 29, 2020 Well I can hope had a Tick put me down 6 years ago. Supposed to start Radiation next month. oneshot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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