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| Grumpy Old Pharts Board Gerritol, Ex-Lax, Immodium, Bad Breath - all requirements for the Grumpy Board |
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04-06-2007, 05:47 PM
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Don't even want to get started on this topic.. almost lost my wife to this.... she hasn't ever really been the same.. Rash don't alway show..
She was misdiagnosed for over a year, flu like, arthritis, Vertigo, lack of focus... she even had to stop work, couldn't drive, or even do stuff around the house.. got into her Nervous System.. docs thought she had MS.... AMA and most Docs know Very Little about Lyme, (although they won't ever admit it).. Thank God we stumbled across one specialist who sent us to a Lyme Specialist.. 3 months of IV Rocepherin, followed by several months of oral antibiotics.. helped get most of her back, took almost a year and a half of treatment.. Really took a Toll.. this was in the early 90's.. tick paranoia at my house, ever since. Put me in a world of debt too...
Don't take Lyme lightly.. detect early, and insist on a month of anti biotics minimum.. Learned it never really fully goes away.. can hide in your system and sit dormant for years....wife had a couple of small reoccurances.. none the last few years tho.. Thank God.
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04-06-2007, 07:49 PM
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Registered Grandpa
Join Date: Nov 2003
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Karl F
Don't take Lyme lightly..
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You are so right Karl,and i would send any member of my family bitten or suspected to an "Infectious Disease Specialist". Nothing to fool with. |
" Choose Life "
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04-07-2007, 10:57 AM
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I hate them ugly s-o-b things. 
Just put some k-9 advantage on the dog 
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04-09-2007, 10:18 AM
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Whenever I venture into an area that I'm not sure about (typically when fishing) I perform a routine I call the "tick flick".
I hav gotten adept at spotting the little peckers, and will check my clothing and "flick" them off. I may even resort to a controlled (although it looks rather frantic) flailing and slapping to add further security that none are hitching a ride.
I haven't been bitten yet, and God willing, I'll catch them in time to prevent it in the future.
Although I don't know first hand about Lyme's disease, I did have an episode with a large horsefly that gave me ringworm. The bitemark also developed the "bullseye" rash, and my doctor prescribed the antibiotics for Lyme's just to be safe.
I hope every outdoors man and woman will take the necessary precautions ove the year.
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04-09-2007, 12:24 PM
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pennyroyal oil or 100% deet helps deter them ....
just don't get deet on your hands or plugs.
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04-10-2007, 08:09 AM
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Location: Reading Mass/Newburyport/merrimack river
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Hate 'em... back when I used to trap, I dusted my clothes with flea and tick powder and wore a bandana around my neck soaked in Bens with %100 DEET soaked my hat in it too...
Last fall I shot a buck that dropped tickes for three days.... I was almost too disgusted to eat it... almost.
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04-10-2007, 08:44 AM
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rockfish9?
how many ticks do ya think dropped off of that buck...?
25?, 50?, 100?
i'll never forget the day my wife and i decided to take a stroll across a grass field next to the charles river....a place we never hiked to before.... midway thru the field i decided to do a tick check on our pantlegs to see how many we picked up thus far if any...and we were covered with them - 20 easy per leg.... luckilly we had the foresight to pull our socks up over our pantlegs. we dusted off ....turned around and headed back to car and dusted them off again.
you'd have to wear smooth waders to cross that damn field...
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04-11-2007, 01:21 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Cumberland, RI
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Karl F
Don't even want to get started on this topic.. almost lost my wife to this.... she hasn't ever really been the same.. Rash don't alway show..
She was misdiagnosed for over a year, flu like, arthritis, Vertigo, lack of focus... she even had to stop work, couldn't drive, or even do stuff around the house.. got into her Nervous System.. docs thought she had MS.... AMA and most Docs know Very Little about Lyme, (although they won't ever admit it).. Thank God we stumbled across one specialist who sent us to a Lyme Specialist.. 3 months of IV Rocepherin, followed by several months of oral antibiotics.. helped get most of her back, took almost a year and a half of treatment.. Really took a Toll.. this was in the early 90's.. tick paranoia at my house, ever since. Put me in a world of debt too...
Don't take Lyme lightly.. detect early, and insist on a month of anti biotics minimum.. Learned it never really fully goes away.. can hide in your system and sit dormant for years....wife had a couple of small reoccurances.. none the last few years tho.. Thank God.
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My wife is going through that now... It will be three years this June. Her life is w/o a doubt a living hell. We have done just about all the meds the Lyme doc can think of including IV rocef for 3 months... un f'ng believable.
Pm me your wife's doc if you don't mind. We are at the point now we'll try/investigate anything. |
Good judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement -- Keith Benning
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05-10-2007, 05:02 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2000
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gosh I hate reviving this thread but hubby has now had 2 deer ticks and 1 wood tick in as many days.................I have to go mow...................and I am freakin out......
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Simplify.......
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05-10-2007, 07:03 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2002
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dont forget
about pennyroyal oil Jenn.... you can put it on pant legs
ticks hate it - as good or better than deet
you can order seeds and grow it....
its a member of the mint family if my memory serves me correctly.
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05-12-2007, 11:56 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2000
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maybe I wiil plant the whole yard with it!!!!!! the other night we were literally out there for less than five minutes!!!!! I hate ticks!!!
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Simplify.......
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