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Post by rebeccad on May 23, 2016 18:51:26 GMT -8
wahahahaha! I just spewed tuna fish! You can laugh until you have to improvise a maxi pad from a diaper.
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Post by rebeccad on May 23, 2016 18:52:33 GMT -8
I only half-listened, cause I'm determined to go. lol Good approach!
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Post by trinity on May 23, 2016 18:54:48 GMT -8
This was back in the mid-eighties, when I spent several summers doing breeding bird censuses and vegetation surveys, most of them in the area of Old Lyme, Connecticut, where the disease was first described and after which it was named. Sort of ground zero for Lyme Disease, as it were, and I was spending every day bushwhacking through the mixed hardwood upland forest that Deer Ticks love. Just be aware of the symptoms, but that goes for everyone who spends any amount of time outdoors, not just backpackers.
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Post by trinity on May 23, 2016 18:59:56 GMT -8
Agreed! If the person in whom you are entrusting the maintenance of your health is discouraging you from going backpacking, it might be time to find a new doctor. Lyme Disease? Really? Would you be better off staying inside and watching tv, where you will almost certainly not contract Lyme Disease, Zika, or any of the other threats that are just waiting out there in nature to kill you?
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Post by Deleted on May 23, 2016 19:22:49 GMT -8
Agreed! If the person in whom you are entrusting the maintenance of your health is discouraging you from going backpacking, it might be time to find a new doctor. The subject of backpacking never came up…he just randomly brought up tick issues and increase in Lyme disease that he's observed. I started checking my phone for texts. lol
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Post by Deleted on May 23, 2016 19:24:16 GMT -8
wahahahaha! I just spewed tuna fish! You can laugh until you have to improvise a maxi pad from a diaper. I'm laughing because if it's Murphy's Law…it WILL find me. Every. Time. Oh, joy!
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Post by rebeccad on May 23, 2016 20:56:41 GMT -8
I'm laughing because if it's Murphy's Law…it WILL find me. Every. Time. Oh, joy! So, timely advice! I will be happy to be able to remove that baggie from my pack permanently, but for now...by the way, I think I'll jump over to the women's forum to discuss how to cope with this one the trail.
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Post by Deleted on May 24, 2016 3:53:20 GMT -8
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Post by Coolkat on May 24, 2016 4:33:09 GMT -8
I've had Lyme Disease twice, wasn't really a big deal. I think early detection is key, it is very easily treated if caught early. Wow if it were me I'd consider yourself fortunate. I know a couple of people who had have it. It's been a game changer for them and not in a good way. Now don't get me wrong, even though I'm in a state where it's a problem it doesn't bother me much. The only time the presence of ticks made a difference was a couple of years back in July. I was going up north for a family event and a trail that I've been looking at hiking happened to cross one of the roads I was on. So I stopped and followed the trail off the road for a few yards just for fun. When I got back to my car I literally had 5 or 6 ticks crawling up leg of my jeans. I don't hike much during the summer months anyway but that helped me make up my mind not to hike that trail until fall.
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Post by amaruq on May 24, 2016 7:09:12 GMT -8
Actually, the pic in my avatar isn't me. Aw, man. Illusion shattered. I think that "they" say that if you pull them off in 24 hours you should be OK, but don't take my word for it. This was the general consensus in all the information seeking I'd done previously.
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Post by rebeccad on May 24, 2016 9:20:33 GMT -8
I think that "they" say that if you pull them off in 24 hours you should be OK, but don't take my word for it. This was the general consensus in all the information seeking I'd done previously. I think that's a typical time frame. But I know a friend who was bit (and got Lyme) within a half day of starting a hike. So sometimes they can dig in sooner, and pass on the disease. But not every tick bite leads to illness, and not every tick out there bites you. Still, I like to hike at altitudes where ticks don't go
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Post by driftwoody on May 24, 2016 9:22:41 GMT -8
Actually, the pic in my avatar isn't me. That's not to say I don't look funny, but... Is this you?
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Post by trinity on May 24, 2016 9:58:54 GMT -8
I think that "they" say that if you pull them off in 24 hours you should be OK, but don't take my word for it. This was the general consensus in all the information seeking I'd done previously. I think that's a typical time frame. But I know a friend who was bit (and got Lyme) within a half day of starting a hike. So sometimes they can dig in sooner, and pass on the disease. But not every tick bite leads to illness, and not every tick out there bites you. Still, I like to hike at altitudes where ticks don't go This may be true, but the species of tick that carries the Lyme Disease virus is practically invisible. In neither case that I got Lyme Disease did I even know I had been bit by a tick until the bullseye shaped rash showed up.
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Post by trinity on May 24, 2016 9:59:55 GMT -8
Is this you? The horror.
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Post by Deleted on May 24, 2016 11:21:26 GMT -8
This may be true, but the species of tick that carries the Lyme Disease virus is practically invisible. In neither case that I got Lyme Disease did I even know I had been bit by a tick until the bullseye shaped rash showed up. This is sooooo not comforting. lol
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