MADDOG
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Wouldent you think he would have heard them coming!!!
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lpkayak
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i wodered about this just the other day
once a deerfly got in when i was riding...had y to get off so dizzy
doc got it out in pieces
last week had nymph crawling on neck and wondered if that could happen
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Keebler
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- Whoa . . . I could not bear to watch that guy in such pain. I had to stop. Maybe later. But if that brought that big guy to that state . . . explains a lot about the tender nerves in ears.
When walking in the woods, etc.
My idea (just speculating) Half a cotton ball, moderately placed in ears, not too tight, though - maybe just a drop of a botanical ear oil on the outer surface of the cotton ball (they often contain garlic) that can serve as a deterrent (to ticks and to anyone who want to kiss you!).
TinyURLs so often change. If it expires, search at SLATE magazine for the title, author, date.
Stumbled upon this article last week during what I thought was a little pleasure reading over at Slate.
What I learned here about the cranial nerves in the ear makes so much sense for myself dealing with painful and severe hyperacusis & sound triggered seizures (from the slightest sound) beyond belief.
Now I know lyme affects all that and it can improve, but this helps validate the kind of pain that the ear can experience.
More horrifying than bears, snakes, or hook-handed killers. [A scarab]
- by Annie Stoltiem, editor of Adirondack Life magazine. - Writing here for SLATE - Sept. 16 2014
Excerpt:
. . . I’ve given birth twice; as a kid I snapped my ankle in half and had an ice-skate blade slice my chin open—things that hurt a lot. But this pain was a full-body shock from my toes to my temples; with every stab I saw a flash of light.
For 20 minutes while my husband tried frantically to find a Q-tip (totally ridiculous in retrospect) and calm the kids and me, the thing in my ear assaulted me. . . .
[poster's insert: do NOT use a Q-tip - that will just push it further in]
. . . And the doctors explained why just the slightest tap to the inner ear is so painful:
The ear canal is innervated by four cranial nerves, all of which relay sensory information to the brain. It’s sensory overload if something even slightly irritates that teensy patch of skin. . . .
[And how, for days, no doctor was adept enough to help her !! - full article at link above. As hard as it is to read this, it is very important to understand the kind of pain it can cause -- and that some doctors may be no better than a kindergartener at helping.
Imagine had anyone dealing with this been driving or operating heavy machinery.] -
I recall in grade school a teacher telling us to let someone blow smoke in our ear if a bug got in there. Every adult, it seemed, smoked in those days. Now, I'm not sure what one might do. I don't think the doctor's advice above was enough.
We need to know how to deal with this ourselves because of the pain involved and lack of doctors who are able to help in this manner. I don't know if some kind of smoke may help, as anything could be torched, I suppose and smoke directed in, gently.
I would like to see better medical advice on this.
For prevention, A half of a cotton ball in the ears at night might be a good idea if camping, out dancing with insects, so to speak.
For safety and if you need to hear during the night or hate the feel of petroleum ear plugs, if the cotton ball is loosely yet securely placed, hearing will not be lessened much at all - to hear your kids, etc.
SEE COMMENTS, too, over a hundred so a force to read through but worth it (I've yet to do it completely).
One states: must know the bug dealing with, their behavior, etc. (but that can be nearly impossible).
One suggests oil in the ear (but I'm not sure a smothering bug would not bite back or wiggle more).
Another said when this happened to their mom, their dad pulled out an infant's "snot sucking bulb" and that did the trick. Makes sense. -
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Keebler
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- Pulling from all that above for this key detail:
". . . The ear canal is innervated by four cranial nerves, all of which relay sensory information to the brain.
It’s sensory overload if something even slightly irritates that teensy patch of skin. . . ." -
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Keebler
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- Not sure when I'll be able to watch that video. I just hope that poor guy finds / found a LLMD as lyme can just do so much damage to the ears to begin with. I can't imagine if the ear system is the place of initial (tick) injection of infection(s).
Apparently, the guy in video is not the same who posted it and I see no way to trace it to tell when this happened, if he got detail about lyme assessment, etc.
And, I am certain I won't be able to return to that. But, for all who have those car "burps" on their alarm lock car systems, THIS is exactly the kind of pain that sends me to the ground with someone hits those.
If possible - for others - please consider not using the audible burps - they are very painful to some of us (even with ear muffs, they go right through my ears and brain). -
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Lymedin2010
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Just goes to show how easily the public can get bit & never even know it & it is by sheer coincidence we get to witness something like this.
Yea, that thing is still ringing in his ear probably and it had me swatting my ear all night
Good idea with the cotton balls, although at this point....put me in a sealed suite.
Crazy stuff indeed.
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