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philly78
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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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sixgoofykids
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Ohio in the early 70's then Indiana in the 2000's.
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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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glm1111
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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"
Gael
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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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Tricky Tickey
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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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urpaige: That's INSANE! Virginia is endemic for Lyme and the number of cases has grown by over 400% in the last three years! Tick studies have shown greater than 40% of ticks in Northern and Eastern VA to be infected with b. burgdorferi.
I saw an adult deer tick in my house back in February or March (when they aren't supposed to be active, according to some idiot who just pulled that "fact" out of their rear end).
Central VA is smack dab along the route of some migratory birds who also travel right through eastern NY state and west to the great lakes (Where over 75% of reported cases of Lyme disease come from). I CANNOT believe that anyone would be so ignorant to say that Lyme Disease doesn't exist in Central VA. Heck, even the CDC map of reported cases shows MANY dots in the central VA area.
I live in Richmond, and I got bit here in my very own yard! In the city!(the concrete isn't even safe)
I could probably go drag the grass in my yard right now and come back with at least ten deer ticks. And that's lowballing it, big time.
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Southeast Georgia 1996/1997 my backyard... clearing brush to put up fences...pulled of many embedded ticks....but not to worry no Lyme in SE Georgia
Not diagnosed til 2009.
Strangely, I found out that the vets check for and are finding lyme.
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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.
What? And why did they put up signs at the coast in Santa Cruz, warning against ticks? This was in 1989!
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Kadee, Its a joke we have going on this post, most of us live in areas we were told lyme didnt exist. I like you link I will look at it in more detail later. From the brief glance i saw of it it didnt show all that many cases, But it does confirm one of my theories of the pacific flyway for migratory birds. thanks for your link
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quote:Originally posted by AlanaSuzanne: Yes, sand and beaches. My favorite place in the world is a beach. Those damn ticks fry at the beach or on concrete.
- You can definitely get bit by ticks at the beach.. esp in the dunes where the grasses are.
Concrete is NOW my friend.. didn't use to be!!
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Virginia is where I was bit. In the Staunton, VA and Shenandoah area.
We were on vacation there in October 2001. I suddenly became very ill on our last night there and have been sick ever since. We had been golfing, walking on paths in the woods and even climbed a big beautiful tree to have my picture taken in it.
7 years (and a million doctors) later I tested positive for Lyme.
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First bite definitely NJ 40 years ago. Possible second exposure a couple of years ago in Pebble Beach, CA.
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