Wow sunridge 1, what a hard time that must have been.
You are right,“that ain’t right,” that you have to know more than some docs about tick borne diseases.
I’m 54 years old and have had ticks on me for at least 50 of those years.
Hell, I get more ticks on me than my dogs.
My primary care physician should be all over me about infectious diseases.
Why are human doctors so behind on this?
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Wow sunridge 1, what a hard time that must have been.
You are right,“that ain’t right,” that you have to know more than some docs about tick borne diseases.
I’m 54 years old and have had ticks on me for at least 50 of those years.
Hell, I get more ticks on me than my dogs.
My primary care physician should be all over me about infectious diseases.
Why are human doctors so behind on this?[/QUOTE]
I don’t know but it sure has been frustrating for many people in my area. I have a friend that had been struggling with a weird multi-symptom illness for years. I suggested Lyme and told her to get a Western blot. Between her doctor and insurance company they wouldn’t do it because she tested negative on the elisa. Early this year she finally was diagnosed with Lyme. She’s been sick on and off for three years, trying chiro, atlas therapy, herbal. Everything she could try in the mean time. I was mad for her. :mad:
After my last post I walked outside to move my sprinkler. I felt an itch on my upper arm. Yep, you guessed it. Wood tick semi attached.
I am lucky in one regard, I’m mega allergic to any/all insect saliva except horn/stable flies. So when they begin to bite I itch and find them before they imbed. I haven’t had an imbedded tick for years. I’ve read that the tick needs to be attached 24 hours before Lyme can be transmitted?
The other thing that really frosts me is that the doctors are still using the elisa test. It’s so inaccurate they should use the Western blot directly. My vets have even quit using it for that reason, they just treat the symptoms.
One of my close friends was bitten by a tick 4 years ago. It caused him to develop mammalian meat allergy. He can no longer eat any mammals. If he ingests any beef, pork, venison, etc, he will start vomiting and having diarrhea about 8 hours later, break out in hives, then go into anaphylaxic shock. This has happened probably half a dozen times and now he is very very particular about everything he eats. (Even about meat cooked on the same grill as his food!)
Luckily for him, his dad is a doctor who lives about 10 min away, so when his throat closes up, his gf drives him immediately to his fathers house, just in case. He keeps epi pens everywhere and has had to use them. Interestingly enough, his dad started having similar episodes of anaphylaxis/passing out but dozens of doctors and tests cannot figure out the cause.
Damn ticks!!! I’ve only found one on me this year so far…thank goodness.
Oh my goodness, all of these stories are so tragic and heartbreaking. I am so sorry to hear of all of the loss and the suffering. So many people and animal’s lives have been destroyed and lost due to these horrible diseases. We need more awareness and we need for the medical community to take these infections much more seriously than they have been.
I have a friend that also became allergic to mammalian meat. He removed that from his diet, but was still having symptoms. They were finally able to figure out it was the gelatin coating on his blood pressure medicine that was continuing to cause his allergic reactions.
Sunridge how is your experience with guinea fowl? Not to totally derail the horridness of this thread but I almost got some last year. Then I learned they can give horses lice and since I have zero experience with birds I opted out. After months of researching exactly how to keep the dang things I gave up. Are they a good experience? And ps thank god you got through that! What an awful scary thing!
