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Not which state you live in but which state you were bitten. if not there should be one
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Yeah, I agree...this would be good... But there would also need to be an option for those who are uncertain where they were exposed, and for those who were exposed through the womb (congenital Lyme) and through breast milk.
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I see there is a place to "post polls," but members do not have permission to do this.
What I cannot find is a place where there are polls to take here? Where do I find those? Or are there any? Just curious, and still learning my way around.
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NO ticks in california ? Are you friggin kidding me, theyre everywhere here, my apologies if you where being facitious. Anyway guessing I got mine here after many tick bites over the years...
But I did have a mystery illness that I never felt quite right from after visiting thailand 5 years ago. Anyone here of lymelike disease in asia ?
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LOL@ Dogsandcats!! You are sarcastic!
Gryphon, that was how I lost all 3 of my PCPs b/c I vehemently disagreed with their position that there is no Lyme in CA.
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I needed to decide whether I was sarcastic or facetious....
Facetious Treating serious issues with deliberately inappropriate humor; flippant.�
Sarcasm a sharply ironical taunt; sneering or cutting remark.
I will now choose facetious. Sounds less harsh. I don't want to make cutting remarks about doctors who hold the secret file to where the ticks, even the nymphs, live. Nor would I want to taunt the doctors that have another secret file of ONLY their designated symptoms for Lyme. Lastly, I would not want to sneer at those docs who, after a major scene where it appears you are fighting for opiods, instead begrudgingly hand you two weeks of doxy. This is not a rage, it is a rant. Didn't want to have to find Websters again. But, through the dark pages of Websters we find other words to describe those few and true- dedicated, over worked LLMD's who don't debate the part of the world the tick bite occurred, believe our symptoms because they have heard them repeatedly and treat us with the best medicines they know how to. Tune in next weeks kids as we talk about insurance......
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Ok friends...Lyme has been reported in every state but Hawaii. It may not be reported by CDC, but according to a medical journal I read, wish I remember exactly which one, and confirmed by my LLMD, its in every continental state. Not sure about Alaska???
I caught it in Mammoth, California.
If you look up your county's vector control site, they will state the exposure risk for lyme transmitting ticks. At least mine does. Orange County, CAlifornia. I was pleasantly surprised when I looked it up. They actually announced the closure of a popular hiking/biking trail due to high risk of tick exposure a year or 2 ago. Imagine such honesty.
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Mid-MICHIGAN- I saw dozens of reg/md's, all stating this don't exsist in michigan, I went to a state (MSU) sponcered health resource report document, and printed it out/filled it out/ showed it to my reg/md and WOW, he got real shooked and wanted to know if I sent it in.. No, I said, then I did later and they responded to me with, Lyme Disease only in animals.. really? and how much money are we spending to find that out..dah
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I know I find it funny, I too was told by a couple yahoo docs that theres no lyme here so I must have gotten somewhere else. I was like thats funny cause I know of at least 2 people whove never left cali and have LD, come to think of it just about everyone I know here has a lyme connection somehow... I think the place is just as infested as the east personally.
Wow in mammoth ? That actually does surprise me, I wouldve thought its too cold dry and high elevation there for any ticks.... guess those little bastards are tougher than we realize
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Ontario. Doc says we don't have ticks here either - guess they don't have passports. So I called the vet and they say lots of ticks over the 15+ years they've been in practice, and more and more each year. Then I started pulling ticks off my cats. Ugh. But we also vacationed in Minnesota when I was a kid, and travelled across Canada and the U.S., so who knows where/when I actually got it. I don't recall ever having a tick bite.
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Montana, by a wood tick. Absolutely certain. Of course lyme does not exist here.
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Mississippi, probably on a golf course.
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Ocean city, Maryland. I know the exact moment, although it took 13 years for a diagnosis.
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Southern Indiana.... I got the tick off of a dead deer I was checking for gunshot wounds...
this was way back in the 80's before all the talk of lyme and rashes.. had no clue...
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probably initially southern oregon in 1981 or so ~ also got many tick bites in northern california.
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Wow in mammoth ? That actually does surprise me, I wouldve thought its too cold dry and high elevation there for any ticks.... guess those little bastards are tougher than we realize
- Ticks prefer cooler climes .. but they can live just about anywhere.
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Illinois in the Chicagoland suburbs
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NY Catskills when kids, sherwood island, CT as a teen.
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Grantsburg, WI
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My son just got a tick bite in WA State, the tick tested positive for Lyme.
Hmmmm....but it is very "rare" here!
I had reason to visit the CDC web site as the "mountain school" where my son got bit called me. I was prepared for her to start rattling the "rare" stats about WA State, which she did and got them from the CDC site. I couldn't stand to read through it; it's just ridiculous, unbelievable...it's just all so warped. Never in a million years would I have thought I'd find myself in this abyss (I'm sure I'm not the only one!), it's just weird. TS
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central NY, twice. Two of my children both central NY. Near Cornell University.
NYS Health Dept. would not allow any of us to be counted as lyme cases in NY because we were not diagnosed in NYS. (yes, I did tell them what I thought about that : )
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Bitten in Wisconsin probably in late 70's the summer the ticks were so bad on the dogs. Found out I have Lyme a year ago.
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Hmm ticks in ca, hmm ticks in wa, hmm ticks in or. hmm ticks in canada. Hmm I do believe ducks and geese migrate between ca and alaska. Hmm, guess they make non stop flights.
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lol, no ducks! No geese, either, I suppose, lol
I picked SO many dog ticks off myself and my pets, through the years, but I was told to have no fear! It is only the ones we cannot see that cause harm. I was probably "swimming in" the ones I could NOT see judging by the number of ticks I could and DID see.
Makes me sick to my stomach, now. We were never taught to take any type of precaution. Nope. Life was "carefree," as I romped through the woods as a child, teen, even as an adult.
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looks to me like lyme is country wide...believe i was infected in Bay Area, CA or Mass
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HopesAlive .. sounds like me. I climbed trees, built forts, tromped through the woods my entire childhood. (50's and 60's) Had more than 100 tick bites at the minimum.
Sure was fun.
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Massachusetts for sure!
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Chester county PA here.
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All year round i am around ticks, dogs have em, even though we use tick drops and spray the yard. I scout for elk year round, when i hunt I cant tell you how many miles i have logged on my hands and knees chasing elk and deer. I usually burn ticks off the animal when i clean them but thats only if i have time. My partners and I harvest our animals as well as help others, so i am in contact with lots of deer and elk. then add bird season when i am in the marsh with birds. I never gave lyme much thought, i always heard it was an east coast thing. Now i am learning its not. I am telling everyone I talk to about It. I told 4 people at the grocery store today. I am spreading the word in our area.
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Grandson - in Columbia, SC. Backyard is adjacent to Ft Jackson where signs say "Lyme Disease area...Take precautions..."
No one has ever publicized the study at Ft Jackson in 1992 that concluded that Richland Cty and surrounding counties are at high risk for LD and RMSF.
Interesting that Chief Epidemiologist at health dept still says LD is not a problem in SC. They've had over a quarter of a century to figure this thing out and still no accurate info. It's maddening, frustrating, depressing, etc, etc.
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Pennsylvania...I also grew up playing in the woods, climbing trees and running in the tall grass.
Not even safe in the city though. I saw a sign in one of the many parks here "Be Careful Of Ticks"
I got bitten hundreds of times when I was living in the woods in Pa with a boyfriend. I kept looking at these things,(ticks) picking them off of me (including a fully engorged one on my arm)and thought
"I know this isn't good, but I don't know why" Sweetest, kindest boyfriend I ever had, but the deadliest because I went to live in his cabin with him in the woods "How RomanTICK"
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lake ray roberts, texas...north of dallas/fort worth
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I lived at the lakes, played in the woods, biked and walked to friends' homes through trails in the woods, always camping, making forts, climbing trees.
Then, as an adult, I would bring my boys out to nature parks to play in the leaves, go for trail and "nature walks," hiking, biking, and always camping.
Not only ticks but TONS of misquito bites. I still love nature and the outdoors and the lakes and camping, and I don't want this to spoil my love of nature, but I find myself getting paranoid. Not fun.
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HA.. I know all about mosquitoes .. grew up in Houston. And as I said above, spent time camping in MN also! Home of biting flies and giant mosquitoes...LOL.
---I am also wondering where those elusive ticks live???
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wow sounds like my doctor, gave me results from an elisa test and told me they were the bands on a western blot. looked all over for band no. 91(i had 45 needed 91 to be positive).
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quote:Originally posted by scorpiogirl: CA... but they said there is NO Lyme in CA either so I don't know where I was bitten then.
Since we were hearing this too much here, Dorothy, who writes the Touched By Lyme blog at www.lymedisease.org, asked for an informal poll of where Californians got bitten. She reports about 150 responses - scroll down to the bottom there - it's the 5th one, titled "No Lyme in CA?"
There are over 1000 folks signed up on CaliforniaLyme.
Just found our 8th person known to have contracted Lyme in San Francisco. And we are not a hotspot. Parts of Mendocino County north of here have 40% infected ticks.
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My son got it in Central Virginia even though two docs told us it wasn't here either. Funny though, State Health Department did follow up twice on my son's two positive lab tests.
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Arkansas!
The natural state, with a big ole tick right in the middle!
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Pour Clueless: Je ne veux pas dire tique - tant pis!
So how well is the word getting out in France about ticks - do people know?
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Two LLMD's and Two LLND's have confirmed it's possible when I tell them I was bit in the neck by a red fire ant in the California Desert in 1977 or 1978 (I don't remember exactly when; the only thing I do remember is the burn from that bite - I was only 4 yrs. old at the time), and my first known Lyme symptom began (wandering leg pain) shortly after that. This known Lyme symptom completely disappears when I'm on antibiotics, only to return within about a month or so of when I go off the abx...
Since the ant bite, I've travelled to and lived on the East Coast and WA, and travelled to Michigan, Oregon, and various other places around the US & Canada. I've also been to Mexico (just over the boarder). But as far as I can remember, all of these trips took place *after* my first Lyme symptom appeared...
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