The problem is the ticks you don’t find.
15-minute at-home Lyme disease tick test
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#92Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've removed several hundred ticks using soap on a wet cloth and doing one counter-clockwise rotation on the tick. No lyme, tick-borne encephalitis so far. Key thing is to check after every hike, keep checking their favorite places (where the skin gets thinner and softer) and check before you scratch something that itches. Having an easy to use method which doesn't need special tools also helps by being able to immed…
> Key thing is to check after every hike There's the common advice to wear long pants & tuck them into socks. But at times I've found the exact opposite: short pants are fine. Why: ticks can be hard to find on clothing. So you get home, inspect legs etc, and (later) a tick crawls from pants onto your leg & you may not notice. Bare legs otoh make it trivial to check for ticks regularly during a walk, and/or when you f…
Soak your pants socks and shoes in permethrin and this isn’t a problem.
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#93I didn’t discover that ticks were a problem until I was in my mid 20s, and had been rolling around in deer-filled brush for years. Either I got very lucky, or have a chronic tick-borne disease. I’ve been battling unexplained anxiety, fatigue, poor sleep and cognitive decline throughout my 30s. I’ve had every blood test under the sun, numerous sleep studies and tried every vitamin. I’ve had no answers and no change. S…
Did your 30s coincide with the COVID pandemic? I've had a similar experience the last 6 years, and it feels like a combination of aging (I'm 35) and Long COVID. I am trying to get out of the software industry altogether because sitting and looking at a screen all day makes me feel like shit now
Unfortunately I haven't gotten a lot of answers about treatment but just putting it out there, if you don't have a characteristically tick-borne illness like alpha-gal it might be COVID-related.
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#94https://lymealert.com/how-it-works/ I’m not optimistic this will be all that helpful. Just because the tick you found is negative, that tells you nothing about those you did not find. Just because a tick is positive, that does not mean that it has infected whoever it was attached to. My understanding is that the ticks only transmit disease after they have been attached long enough to become engorged. None of the tick…
According to the dutch public health institute, the longer the tick is in the body, the bigger the chance of transmission. Early removal also does not prevent lyme, it just reduces the chances. Next to that, in The Netherlands we have a site to report tick bites and if they had lyme disease or not. It’s good to know if you should be extra vigilant after a bite from a certain area. I think the self-test could be very…
A site to report tick bytes.
Is there a similar site to report mosquito bites? They also carry many debilitation or fatal diseases.
I live in prime tick country. During peak season (March through June and again September through November) I can get 3 or 4 tick bites a day. I don't always get them all because they're completely painless while they're embedded (although I react strongly after they've been removed) and I've been diagnosed with and treated for Lyme disease twice after developing all the classic symptoms. I am not alone in my area. If there was a site where you report tick bites here it would need to be pretty robust to handle the load and it would serve no purpose.
The local authorities have acknowledged the rampant outbreak of Lyme in the region. You do not need to provide the tick to authorities for identification. All you need to do is go to any pharmacy and tell them you've been bitten by a tick and they'll write you a prescription for Doxycycline on the spot.
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Nah. The surrounding conversation here is an absolutely beautiful example of why people shouldn’t be able to take whatever they want, whenever they want.
The facebook/youtube grade quackery is everywhere.
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#96Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Key thing is to check after every hike There's the common advice to wear long pants & tuck them into socks. But at times I've found the exact opposite: short pants are fine. Why: ticks can be hard to find on clothing. So you get home, inspect legs etc, and (later) a tick crawls from pants onto your leg & you may not notice. Bare legs otoh make it trivial to check for ticks regularly during a walk, and/or when you f…
Soak your pants socks and shoes in permethrin and this isn’t a problem.
Just be careful doing this if you have cats as pets.
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Nah. The surrounding conversation here is an absolutely beautiful example of why people shouldn’t be able to take whatever they want, whenever they want. The facebook/youtube grade quackery is everywhere .
There's a big difference of telling OTHER PEOPLE what drugs and stuff to do, and CHOOSING FOR YOURSELF.
Call it quackery, or whatever other name. I do not trust the medical establishment. Most don't even follow scientific guidelines for treatment. They're lucky to even read the old MR. Usually its for 'cover my ass' reasons, and not correlating treatment.
I've even known women friends who had doctors say "oh its hysteria", or "lose weight", for a variety of issues. And when they go to a decent doc, its correctly identified as endometriosis. And of course the shit docs won't tell you they're shit. They have your money already. And insurance sees "doctor visit" so any others are out of pocket.
So yeah, I do my own research. I pay for my own tests. You can contact cheap labs out of country for a variety of tests.
And in the end, I'm capable of treating myself, either with the drugs, or synthesizing it myself. I don't need your or anybody's permission.
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#98I didn’t discover that ticks were a problem until I was in my mid 20s, and had been rolling around in deer-filled brush for years. Either I got very lucky, or have a chronic tick-borne disease. I’ve been battling unexplained anxiety, fatigue, poor sleep and cognitive decline throughout my 30s. I’ve had every blood test under the sun, numerous sleep studies and tried every vitamin. I’ve had no answers and no change. S…
When did you last (1) eat a proper salad with no sugary dressing (2) get up early to exercise (3) achieve a suntan (4) spend a week without caffeine, nicotine, or alcohol? (5) catch a sunrise? (6) wake up at an acceptable hour without an alarm? (7) eat a high fiber meal like a vegetable curry? Other: Dark, cold, quiet bedroom. Sleep study. Vicious dietary improvement. If all else fails: move and change jobs. If that…
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Re: 15-minute at-home Lyme disease tick test
#99I didn’t discover that ticks were a problem until I was in my mid 20s, and had been rolling around in deer-filled brush for years. Either I got very lucky, or have a chronic tick-borne disease. I’ve been battling unexplained anxiety, fatigue, poor sleep and cognitive decline throughout my 30s. I’ve had every blood test under the sun, numerous sleep studies and tried every vitamin. I’ve had no answers and no change. S…
Did your 30s coincide with the COVID pandemic? I've had a similar experience the last 6 years, and it feels like a combination of aging (I'm 35) and Long COVID. I am trying to get out of the software industry altogether because sitting and looking at a screen all day makes me feel like shit now Unfortunately I haven't gotten a lot of answers about treatment but just putting it out there, if you don't have a character…
I had this starting around the beginning of COVID. Was it COVID? Did I get COVID at all? Plausibly, but not definitively. Did I get it at that time? Almost certainly not as I stayed isolated and got tested whenever I wasn't. It could be aging but I think a lot of people chalk things up to aging that are actually due to non-aging-related causes - you just accumulate more past as you age so you're more likely to have encountered whatever the cause is. I did go camping several times, once in a region known to have Lyme, without being vaccinated, but that was years after I started noticing chronic fatigue. Conclusion: I really don't know.
At least some of my cognitive decline is surely related to my attention span, which is not aging-related at all but more to do with the modern information-flood environment. A few minutes ago I misread "scripted" as "sculpted" in an HN comment and then stopped to reflect why I did that. It wasn't because I can't read, but rather because I was skimming over that comment really, really fast, because that way I can view more comments.