Standing in the shower last Friday, I saw a little dark thing on the floor. Thought it would just wash down the drain. While drying off I found something a tad over 1/8" diameter on right side of my lower leg. Thought it was something stuck on my sparce leg hairs. Pulled it up and off, tossed it on the white tiles and see it was a good sized tick. The 1 quart body wash bottle closing in like a comet must have been scarey. Got a pic of the little vermine before sending him down the toilet. Had just a tiny red dot, barely visible, which got a little larger but seems to have stopped. I feel fine and have done some reading about after effects of a bite. I dont think it got its noggin buryied into my skin. Just curious if anyone has ever got a tick bite?

I have gotten tick bites, and being in CT, have also had Lyme disease 3x.

What is really scary is “alpha-gal syndrome” - https://www.mayoclinic.org/dis...-causes/syc-20428608

Makes you allergic to red meat forever. Comes from lone star ticks...

As I get older, my body's allergic reaction to tick bites worsens. Finding a tick means at least 1-2 weeks of a silver dollar sized swollen welt that itches and burns and all nearby lymph nodes swollen and achy. Bad ones can take a month to fully heal and really bad ones can start itching again and swell off and on for months. So...I don't like ticks!

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Originally posted by feersum dreadnaught:
I have gotten tick bites, and being in CT, have also had Lyme disease 3x.

What is really scary is “alpha-gal syndrome” - https://www.mayoclinic.org/dis...-causes/syc-20428608

Makes you allergic to red meat forever. Comes from lone star ticks...

I read about this a couple days back. I hit my tiny red dot where it bit me with hand sanitizer. Stung just a little.

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Originally posted by Batty67:
As I get older, my body's allergic reaction to tick bites worsens. Finding a tick means at least 1-2 weeks of a silver dollar sized swollen welt that itches and burns and all nearby lymph nodes swollen and achy. Bad ones can take a month to fully heal and really bad ones can start itching again and swell off and on for months. So...I don't like ticks!

Certainly understand. Funny thing is I am never around trees or weeds/grass. The little devils must show up in other places. I havn't a clue where it came from.

Not all ticks carry lyme disease. Deer tick does.

Once while Spring turkey hunting I concealed myself deep in the brush. It was still dark. When it got light out I began to feel something crawling on my skin. I looked down and there were hundreds of little ticks crawling all over my boots and legs. I was sitting in a nest!

Monitor your health carefully.

There are a number of tick borne diseases.

My wife got Lyme disease from pulling weeds in the back yard.

She was luck an got the infamous bullseye on her leg. Not everyone does.

She was treated with drugs and recovered completely.

Here is a list of the some of the most common ones.

https://www.cdc.gov/ticks/diseases/index.html

Holy hell! I wondered if they ever appear in groups. I've read some kind of bug repellant is good insurence.

Other than the risk of disease and the fact they are creepy little MOFO’s they don’t bother me. I’ve had my fair share.

I can remember one time being up in Maine coming out of some woods and I must have had 10 or 15 on my pants / leg. Good times.

During my previous life on a farm, if we were (for example) repairing fences in woods, picking ticks at the end of the day was a routine thing.
We might get a dozen of them off each of us. A lot were chewing away. My dad once had one on his back that was swollen up like it was on a dog. Back then, we didn't know about Lyme disease and other illnesses. We just added a little bleach to the bath water to deal with them and the chiggers.

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Once while Spring turkey hunting I concealed myself deep in the brush. It was still dark. When it got light out I began to feel something crawling on my skin. I looked down and there were hundreds of little ticks crawling all over my boots and legs. I was sitting in a nest!

I would have screamed like a little girl. I hate pulling those things off me and worry for weeks I've gotten some kind of tick born disease. My mom had Lyme's and never fully recovered, but my fear of them was before her illnesses.

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Originally posted by chellim1:
Once while Spring turkey hunting I concealed myself deep in the brush. It was still dark. When it got light out I began to feel something crawling on my skin. I looked down and there were hundreds of little ticks crawling all over my boots and legs. I was sitting in a nest!

My aunt pull about 50 off my 90 year old grand mother. She was in the yard and somehow got into a nest. They were EVERYWHERE!

I am on my 9th case of tick disease , as my blood work from last week came in to my doctor's office yesterday.

With multiple case of Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever/Lyme disease, the anti biotics take longer to work, but it has weakened my immune system. Recovering takes longer.

I've had episodes so many times, I know the symptoms so well, aching joints, sore throat, bad cold symptoms, fatique. It's like having arthritis in my hands and wrists.

I love summer, but hate the insect aspect of it.

I've had to take antibiotics 2 or 3 times after a tick bite. Big rash showed up.

If you don't get a rash or fever - you're probably fine to ignore it and go on with life.

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Holy hell! I wondered if they ever appear in groups. I've read some kind of bug repellant is good insurence.

DEET, Picaridin, Permethrin. Look up their proper usage. One is bad for cats. One is bad for some plastics. One can be effective on clothes and footwear for months when applied properly.

I haven't had a tick burrow yet this summer, but I can tell you my fly and mosquito bites aren't healing the same as even last year.

Thank you sbrooks. So far I feel fine. No rash or swelling. Nothing. Just a small red dot which seems to be clearing up. I will be more aware going forward.

I've had 6, yes 6, tick bites this year. I had 2 in my previous 40 years on this planet. This area of Missouri seems to be crawling with them. I use bug spray before I go out, but the little suckers are everywhere.

No adverse effects other than the bites itching like crazy. It seems to take me a good 3-4 weeks for the bump to go away and it to stop itching.

My wife is a PA in Dermatology and when she finds a deer tick on the kids she puts it in a ziplock and freezes it. Watch your symptoms and if anything changes consult your primary care. I guess they can test the tick to see if it carries Lyme diesease.

We bought 8 guineas a few years ago and we never found a tick while they were here/alive. Last fall we lost our finally one and this spring have already gotten 3 off the daughter.

Ticks are raging this year, apparently due to the mild winter. I've found more up to this point than I usually find in an entire season.

Habitat control is key. I try to keep as much brush and tall grass cut back as possible.

I saw my PCP once when I thought I had a "bulls-eye" around a bite, but my blood work came back clean.