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WaitPatientlyOnTheLord 05-15-2019 04:24 PM

Ticks and tick borne illnesses
 
:shiver

Its a bad year for ticks here. They say the winters are no longer cold enough to kil off a large percent of the population. Were spraying and doing tick checks. Still somehow I managed to get one biting me on Satuday. I pulled it off and put it in a plastic bag.

Now I have a bunch of bite-looking things all on my flank where I fulled that blood sucker from. It hurts and itches at the same time. It feels exactly like shingles- which I have had twice before.

We dont have insurance. So Im just :nails trying ot figure out what to do. I think its too soon for a Lymes test. And I really really dont want to take the abx if I dont need it. Ive been working so hard on gut health. :( But I cant afford to get Lymes!!

I put a turmeric poultice on it immidiatly upon removing the tick started homeopathic ledum within about 30 hours of pulling it. Im terrified of Lymes so many people I know up here in New England have had Lymes, some have Chronic Lymes. A boy in our school has been incompasitated since Feburary with Lymes.

So its Lymes we worry about here. I know its differnt in differnt places. We only really had dog ticks in Southern Arizona growing up. I assume because there was no brush and grass for them to hide in. :shrug3

I know ROcky Mountain Spotted Fever is a tick borne illness in some parts of the US. And of course ticks dont check maps to see where the broders are. My dog was diagnosed with RMSF in CT in 2013. She recovered but never got back to her full self and Ive always thought her death a year and a half later was related. She had an enlarged spleen after and it seems it never resolved. Or maybe she really did die of cancer. IDK...


ANYWAYS, ticks and Lymes have me super paranoid right now. Who else?

ViolaMum 05-15-2019 04:34 PM

Re: Ticks and tick borne illnesses
 
Do you still have the tick? UMass Amherst is testing ticks again this year for $15. You send it to them through the mail and I think it's only 3 days to get results.

My dh had Lyme disease (that cleared up quickly with a round of antiobiotics.) My MIL (who lives next door) had Lyme and our dog had it twice. We live in an area where it's so prevalent that doctors write the script for antibiotics before the positive test comes back. I have the kids take a shower every night if they play outside starting this time of year just so that we can check for ticks.

mamacat 05-15-2019 04:45 PM

Re: Ticks and tick borne illnesses
 
Activated charcoal right away but not long term and an hour away from food or suppplements if possible . After that Bentomnite clay at site and internally which is not supposed to bind to anything but toxins and bacteria . Have read recently about green leaf stevia being a good Lyme zapper when tested in animals but no studies yet for humans. Tht is supposed to be the only healthy kind to use too

derdsgirl 05-15-2019 05:12 PM

Re: Ticks and tick borne illnesses
 
Our county test ticks for Lyme disease. Like the medical board or whatever it is called. We just had one pulled off of Z tested (thankfully negative!). It gave me great peace of mind to have that tested. I would try that if you still have the tick. The blood test cannot be done for a month on humans I've read, so too soon for that.

ECingMama 05-15-2019 05:15 PM

Re: Ticks and tick borne illnesses
 
High dose Vitamin C for shingles. To bowel tolerance. For a week.

We did antibiotics for my son when he had the bullsveye rash after a summer outside in a tick area.

WaitPatientlyOnTheLord 05-15-2019 05:21 PM

Re: Ticks and tick borne illnesses
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by ViolaMum (Post 6180642)
Do you still have the tick? UMass Amherst is testing ticks again this year for $15. You send it to them through the mail and I think it's only 3 days to get results.

Do you have contact info on this? The cheapest I can find is $50...

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Originally Posted by mamacat (Post 6180643)
Activated charcoal right away but not long term and an hour away from food or suppplements if possible . After that Bentomnite clay at site and internally which is not supposed to bind to anything but toxins and bacteria . Have read recently about green leaf stevia being a good Lyme zapper when tested in animals but no studies yet for humans. Tht is supposed to be the only healthy kind to use too

using clay now this possible shingles possible bites.

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Originally Posted by ECingMama (Post 6180649)
High dose Vitamin C for shingles. To bowel tolerance. For a week.
.

Awesome. I have all the stuff for vit c mega dosing! I'll start that ASAP. That's probably good for either Lyme's or shingles. It seems to be good for everything.

Also starting l-lysine (?) soon for the possible shingles.

ViolaMum 05-15-2019 05:36 PM

Re: Ticks and tick borne illnesses
 
Well, crap. The info I had was old. :bag I'm really sorry!

I looked it up and it's $50 this year. They had a federal grant last year that dropped the price to $15, but the grant must not have been renewed for this year.

ECingMama 05-15-2019 07:08 PM

Re: Ticks and tick borne illnesses
 
I admit to being completely obsessed with Vitamin C. It does seem to work for everything.

Even the researchers are interested in it.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/22460093/

ThreeKids 05-15-2019 07:37 PM

Re: Ticks and tick borne illnesses
 
We need a lot more hunters. The density of the deer population is out of control. It's creating more roadway hazards and spreading tick-borne illnesses. I was at a campground last year and the deer were wandering right through our campsites with their fat twins following.

Do you know my Kentuckian, rural grandfather never ate venison until late in his life? In his day, deer were so rare, you were just glad to see one.

domesticzookeeper 05-15-2019 07:45 PM

Re: Ticks and tick borne illnesses
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by ThreeKids (Post 6180666)
The density of the deer population is out of control. It's creating more roadway hazards and spreading tick-borne illnesses.

Ironically, though, the more deer ticks feed on deer the less infectious they get, because deer aren't hosts for Lyme. It's when the deer ticks move on to rodents and birds that they can pick up the infection. Definitely a multifaceted issue of overlapping populations.

Soliloquy 05-15-2019 09:08 PM

Re: Ticks and tick borne illnesses
 
I'm so sorry. I absolutely loathe ticks. We have tons of ticks but I have yet to see a deer tick out here. But you're right, other types can carry other diseases. :shiver

Do you know how long the tick was attached to you? Were you able to identify it?

Very interesting about deer ticks, deer, and other hosts. The deer are the local pests here, over population from natural predators being killed. But I'm glad that means less chance of Lyme, at least.

mamacat 05-16-2019 07:09 AM

Re: Ticks and tick borne illnesses
 
Colloidal silver very effective against Lyme

WaitPatientlyOnTheLord 05-16-2019 07:55 AM

Re: Ticks and tick borne illnesses
 
So, the bentonite clay really dried things out. So quickly infact that I cant imagine its really shingles. :think Before I thought it was shingles, it seemed like the tick pit be several times in the same area before attaching. I dont have any other bug bites so its odd.


How should I dose with the silver? Im pretty sure I have that on hand too.

mamacat 05-16-2019 10:34 AM

Re: Ticks and tick borne illnesses
 
Let me see if I can find the info for that

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This explains how it works but this person was getting an IV of it so doesnt help with oral dosing. Let me look some more https://www.healingwell.com/communit...f=30&m=1302368


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