Somewhat urgent question about TICS (the bug)

[Guest]

About 20 minutes ago I was roused from my sleep. I thought it was strange that I woke up, since I never do.

A few seconds later I felt something on my leg. Turns out I had a tic on my leg. Today I went with my dog to a creek nearby, and was adventuring around there...through brush and stuff.

I know NOTHING about tics, having grown up in the desert my entire life.

I need to know... what is the chance I got some sort of disease, like Lyme disease... also, if there were more tis on me, would I be able to "feel" their presence?? Or do I have to go around and manually look for anything on my body...

I'm just glad my body woke up... so I could take care of it. I think it was possibly trying to dig in right at that moment.

 

[PhenoMenal]

The main problem with tics is that when you remove them youve gotta be sure you get the whole thing, that includes the head!
there is a risk of getting Lyme from tick bites but it is very low, but see your doctor if you're worried or if you have problems removing the tick

And dont forget to check yourself ALL OVER (that includes orifices, and im not joking!) because if youve got 1 there's a fair chance you may have more

 

[Haps]

Are you sure it did not already lay eggs in your brain? Are you still breathing? Did your weener swell up or fall off? Can you still hear? Eyes bleeding?

The important thing is to check your dog, puppy.
Hehap

 

[trouble]

As long as it did not have its head in you no problem. Years of hunting & fishing I have pulled many Tic's off myself and the only diseses I have are Scotch, Weed, Women, Gambling, Golf other then all that Im in perfect health. However, I have heard of isolated cases in men under 25 years old that get bit by Tic's were it causes their Twig & Berries to fall off. Just kidding, You will be fine just check yourself for more.

 

[HuffAndPuff]

Ok, first, how did you get dat lil fing out of dere? Es muy importante that you remove the entire tick, cause oftentimes the body detatches from the disgusting flesh sucking part.

Where did this happen (geographically)? If you don't wanna say fer security's sake, repespek. If it happened on the east coast of the states, from say CT, NY, NJ, DE, DC, MD you got higher odds of being Lymed out. That said, shit is spreading like some kind of disease, so you're not "out of the woods" yet (don't even really pardon the pun).

What did this tick look like? Fuggin grosstastic, I know, I Know, but I seem to recall that there are a few types, and one more than others is the baddie. (deer tick, or something?) If you're like me, you burned that shit and then pissed on the ashes already, and are still awake waiting for this helpful response. If it is still around, get out that trichome loupe and take a gander. But ease up to it, don't look all at once, you might throw up on it. Like realquickpeek. Then go back, put your eye over it and keep it closed, then like kinda look just a little, test the waters, so to speak. Then google some shit. Because why are you depending on me to offer you medical advice? That's what WebMD is for!

Seriously though, Lyme disease is some fucked up shit. Someone close to me has it, and its no joke. This person caught it mid-way, and its really only succeptible to treatment early on. If you don't get it till late there can be neurological complications, and other sweet stuff. This person is fine most of the time but is prone to 'going legless' when exhausted. And I don't mean drunk when I say legless, or Mariah Carey when I say exhausted.

Keep an eye on the bite, I seem to remember that if it develops a ring around it (I guess of redder skin? prolly not deBeers) then you are fucked. Either way if he got you, make an appointment to see a Dr. The tests prolly wont be able to tell you that you have it for a few weeks anyhow. Worst case? They find out you got it, catch it early, throw some IV antibiotics in ya, and Jah bless, you're good as new. Hope this helps, and that it aint no thang. Let us know.

Stay Safe, (includes ticks!)
HuffAndPuff

[EDIT: Fuck me, you all type fast. Good work docs, excellent response time. Assuming the patient's dick doesn't fall off, we're all good. Oh, and I bill 300 USD per hour, Indicad, I dunno bout my associates. Oh, and no Medicare/medicaid/foodstamps over here. Just the green, either variety. You wanna go that route, it's a z an hour, unless the disease can be treated with marijuana. Then we can make other arrangements for you.]

 

[Guest]

Thanks for the fast replies everyone.

I'm not sure if the tic bit me or not... all I know is I woke up and for some reason (i'm not conscious why) grabbed my leg... I guess I felt something in my sleep and woke up. Maybe it bit me in my sleep and I woke up??

Either way I put the tic in my candle and its dead.

My question is, would I know if this thing bit me or not. Would there be any pain now??

I did check my entire body for tics. I just wonder if you can feel tics on you??? Can you feel them when they are inside of you?? Can you feel them bite you??

I did check my dog and can't tell if he has any. The tic was a hard backed one... not the soft one. Its here around LA, California. So I think it does have the potential for Lyme disease...at least thats what I found on google..

 

[PhenoMenal]

I just wonder if you can feel tics on you???

Nope

Can you feel them when they are inside of you??

Nope

Can you feel them bite you??

Nope

btw Wiki has a good page on them - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tick

 

[HuffAndPuff]

I would assume like most parasites, they secrete some 'numbing' agent, to help keep you from noticing that they are there, sucking the life out of you. Examine the spot where you found/felt it for any redness, or swelling. If you have been pawing at it nervously, put some ice on it to get rid of the redness caused by these understandable actions. Wait about 5 minutes, then see if there is anything resembling a red pinprick. Then stop looking for your dick, and check out the spot where you think you got bit. I keed, I keed.

I had one on my head for god knows how long. the barber found it, and it had been at least a month since my last haircut. I'm no dreadie neither, I fucking herbal essence my shit, so I smell like hot chick.

These lil fuckers just get in there and hide out, sucking the life out of you and giving you uncurable diseases. Hey, wait, are you sure that was a tick and not my ex-girlfriend that bit you?

 

[PhenoMenal]

Once on a host, the tick attaches its hypostome, a central piercing element with hooks, into the host's skin. Some ticks secrete a cementing material to fasten themselves to the host. In addition, Ixodes ticks secrete anticoagulant, immunosuppressive, and anti-inflammatory substances into the area of the tick bite. These substances presumably help the tick to obtain a blood meal without the host's noticing. These same substances also help any freeloading pathogens to establish a foothold in the host.

Ticks can carry and transmit a remarkable array of pathogens, such as bacteria, spirochetes, rickettsiae, protozoa, viruses, nematodes, and toxins. A single tick bite can transmit multiple pathogens, a phenomenon that has led to atypical presentations of some classic tick-borne diseases. In the United States, ticks are the most common vectors of vector-borne diseases.

src: http://www.emedicine.com/emerg/topic584.htm

 

[Pops]

Way to encourage him,guys! In my 1st 19 years in Idaho and Oregon, I had plenty of ticks on me, including the gray deer ticks that swell up the size of Roseanne Barr and are filled with my blood. I have never gotten a disease from them. With my second girlfriend, I wasn't so lucky(damn crabs). Seriously, Indy, they don't bite, they suck blood. That is what they live on. Examine your hairy parts as that is where they like to hide. If you have one on your skin, brush him off and do the Hokie Pokie on his head. If he is attached to you, don't just rip him off. His little sucker tube will stay in you, sucking your brains out. Apply heat(match,hot knife) to his body and allow him to pull out gracefully. Then do the Hokie Pokie on his head.

 

[Guest]

amaZing.... amazing amazing amazing amazing amazing. how tricky these ticks are. i also like how they can detect shadows, body heat, carbon dioxide, etc etc. seems they've developed some interested tactics to make up for their lack of ability to move fast or fly. insects are fricking crazy man.

 

[Guest]

thanks pops... man thats crazy u had lots of tics... i'm a sheltered city boy in the desert no less. worse thing i ever encountered was a baby scorpion in my bathroom. just once...

 

[Pops]

Try hiking 15-20 miles in the mountains while deer hunting. You will have plenty of them. No biggie,I was young and had plenty of blood. Now days, they won't bite me. The alcohol in my bloodstream must not taste good.

 

[Revegged_Clone]

amaZing.... amazing amazing amazing amazing amazing. how tricky these ticks are. i also like how they can detect shadows, body heat, carbon dioxide, etc etc. seems they've developed some interested tactics to make up for their lack of ability to move fast or fly. insects are fricking crazy man.

all the living world is fucking amazing, we're just too stupid to see it... we believe we are the ultimate species and in reality, we are the most ill equipped, because of the fact that intellect does not need brawn to achieve it's goals.

we don't need to run faster than our prey when we can attack from afar or set a trap, get my drift?

i'm stoned, rorry, haha

 

[Guest]

I need to know... what is the chance I got some sort of disease, like Lyme disease...

Pretty decent. My dog is only 6 years old, has been probably bitten by about 15 ticks in his life, and just got Lyme disease

My human friend has been bitten 10-15 and has Lyme disease

doctors vary on treatment, some blast you with antibiotics to kill the disease once detected while others claim this is not necessary. there seems to be a split in the medical world on which route of treatment to take. it's confusing which one to take, unfortunately

 

[DickAnubis]

Hey INDI,
Ticks are pretty damn horrible but don't freak man. They generally go for the moist warm places so if it was on your leg it may have been on its way to your crotch. YIKES!!
But although LYME is no joke, you don't need to get crazy. Like said prior if you're really worried see a doc.
OK here's my horrible tick story.

One day I decided to take a hike through the swamp nearby. It was a drizzly day and the swamp nature is quite something to behold. After tromping through some mighty tall cattails and other swamp grass, walking through foot deep slime and such I went home.
Outside my door I checked myself for ticks as I always do.
AND here's a pointer. If you go hiking check you person before entering your house!
Found a tick on my sock. Plucked him off and killed him dead.
And another on my shin. Pluck him off and killed him dead.
WENT in, showered, ate and off to bed.
THEN....... being middle aged woke in middle of night to pee.
HMMMMM...something itchy as I'm holding my johnson.
hmmmmm.....SOMETHING HARD AND CRUSTY under my DICK!!!!!!??????
I turn on the light, pull up my rod and burrowed into my nut sack A BIG BLACK TICK!!!!!
I freaked!! Wifey jumps up comes running. "WHAT?! WHAT?!"
"A TICK, A FUCKING TICK IN MY BALLS!!!!"
"OK OK JUST CALM DOWN"
"CALM DOWN??!!! YOU DON"T HAVE A FUCKING TICK IN YOUR TWOT?!!! CALM DOWN!!!!"
I'm going crazy. Thank the everything for Wifey. She runs to the living room and gets my surgical clamp roach clip.
"HERE. HERE CLAMP IT BUT DON"T CRUSH IT."
I do what she says. I can finally hear over my pounding heart. I ease the clamp under its black shiny exoskeleton. I want to puke. I'm going to die!
I clamp down and feel a sting. I start praying." Don't Kill it. Don't let it's head stay in!"
Then Wifey comes at me with a box of kitchen matches. She lights one. blows it out after the flare. Pushes the hot tip against its ass. Nothing.
She does it again. then one more time.
she yells,"PULL IT!!"
I yank and out it comes. I lift the clamp and we watch its tiny pinched head writhing.
I close the clamp fully and it cracks in half. Falls into the toilet. I flush the toilet twenty times. I've lost five pounds in three minutes.
Wifey gets the bottle of port. We drink the whole thing.
I love that woman!

SO you see INDI, even if you don't have a superhero wife, a box of kitchen matches will save the day. Of course you might get a little excited and freaked. Now when I go hiking in tick territory I wear my socks over the legs of my pants like old time baseball players. Works like a charm. Tick repellant is good also.

PEACE DA

 

[Truthman]

Essential oils of various herbs repel ticks as well as mosquito's so inhaling vaporizing to get the oils in your blood, which the ticks drink, or vaporizing your living quarters will keep the bugs away. Peace.

 

[7ate9]

I kind of skimmed through so I hope I don't repeat answers.

Tics take 24 hours to attach to your skin, so as long as the tic was not attached to you then you should be fine. *Thats why it's recommended to shower after being in the woods and such since you can easily wash them off*

I was bit by a tic and got the bullseye rash and it was terrible and I got pretty sick, ended up going to the doc. He gave me some antibiotics and after 2 weeks I seemed fine until recently *about a month since the bite/rash* I have had some insane pains in my knees and restless nights. Had some blood tests a few days ago and still waiting on the results.

If a tic is attached to you then you put alcohol on it's back to either kill it or I think it will get it's head out of your skin so it can breathe since you covered up it's breathing on it's back. Drowning a tic isn't the best since they also have air sacs to survive that.

Next time you go in the woods wear some bug spray.

ROFL when I was a kid a friend of mine had a tick on his nuts and his mom had to get it off!

 

[HuffAndPuff]

DEET repels ticks, as well as a mosquito- Might I suggest you drink it in a Mojitio?

I'm foxin' witchas, don't drink DEET. And I'd be skeptical about putting something in my body with the goal being to make my blood poisonous to something about 15 rungs down the foodchain from me.

Now if giants start snatching people up, and treating us like Snack Packs, you can bet your ass I'll be making myself inedible. Prolly by shitting myself. Till then, repellent, sleeves, pants, matches, and a severe case of Entomophobia will have to suffice.

Stay Safe,
HuffAndPuff

 

[Guest]

Id shower with soap, and just run your hands all over your body...you will feel ticks if any that have attached to your skin by your fingers. Make sure there isnt no hard flappy/or bulbous shit thats not supposed to be on your skin...there will be no pain otherwise. Get someone to check your hair to see if any attached to your scalp.

I had one attached to my shoulder once and had no idea what it was. It felt like a scab or something when I was showering and I was thinking WTF is that?! I pulled it off and then flipped out when I saw it was a big fat tick that had been embedded in my shoulder. It did not hurt at all. My mom took me to the vet of all places to get it checked out(yeah shes country...and cheap) LMFAO....Saved the tick and they checked it out under the scope to see if there was a head still attached(fer free!). If you get the head out then you should be okay when it comes to lymes.

Best thing to do though if you have one attached is get it taken care of by a doctor. You dont want any piece of the head attached in your body, as it will just grow another body and continue to live, and possibly give you a disease.