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Topic: A poll, Single or Multiple Tick bites?

Foggy
Frequent Contributor (1K+ posts)
Member # 1584

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Did you have Single or Multiple Tick bites? Were they simultaneous, or separate.

I'll start: I had multiple and simultaneous bites from ticks that got into my helmet. They were nymph, so tiny that never saw them until they were on my pillow. I'm convinced that multiple ticks=multiple coinfections and treatment failures.

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Kara Tyson
Frequent Contributor (5K+ posts)
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1 single tick. I single hike.

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duramater
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1 behind my right knee.

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Lymetoo
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Member # 743

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TONS of bites! When I was bitten, no one knew about Lyme. We didn't even protect ourselves. And also didn't worry about the bites!

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lymiecanuck
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Multiple bites and and at least 1 single bite, but played in the woods a lot as a kid, as it was my back yard.

Lymiecanuck

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brodius
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Member # 6835

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Many - after one in particular - everything changed - red rash, documented by doc - said to go home - no abx b/c it wasn't on long enough!

Many before that one and many after. Ten years ago - one summer it was so bad - ticks were crawling up all four legs of the kitchen chair I was sitting in..like a bad movie!

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pattiecake
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Member # 6424

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single and multiple. WOre long pants and sleeves etc. and they still managed to get me.
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3greatkids
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Never saw the tick,never saw a rash.

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robi
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Member # 5547

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1 tick bite nov 2003, Still treating

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liz28
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Inside your helmet? Yu-uck.

Two bites. Would like to go back to scene of the crime and turn deer into stew.

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monkeyshines
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Member # 6406

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I hope Lymetoo won't mind my borrowing her response:

"TONS of bites! When I was bitten, no one knew about Lyme. We didn't even protect ourselves. And also didn't worry about the bites!"

same here ... monkeyshines

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Lymied
LymeNet Contributor
Member # 6704

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Only tick bite I ever remember was when I was 9 years old on my head.

Got sick back in May 2004 - found a tick in our bed near my pillow - lone star - but was not attached.

I don't remember any other ticks other than these and never had the traditional rash. Only a strange migrating rash ever since treatment started.

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map1131
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Member # 2022

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I had a dozen bites, all on my pelvic area. I thought they were chiggers, Dr C says maybe so, but he'd bet they were nymph ticks.

Pam

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LemNLyme
Junior Member
Member # 7085

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My daughter was bitten by a mouse a year ago as she retrieved it from her cat's mouth. Mouse gave her Lyme and a host of other unwanted guests. She got Babs from a tick in Cape Cod this past summer, too.

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DolphinLady
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Member # 6275

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Multiple FLEA bites I'm pretty sure, 3 or 4 times. Developed flu like symptoms after each round of bites so I stopped hiking.

Drs said I was having allergic reaction to flea bites.

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mimi
LymeNet Contributor
Member # 6680

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At least five tick bites from brown dog ticks. Went to ER as a kid for "mosquito poisoning" also, have had a TON of mosiquito and flea bites so????????????????????? My Mom has MS but the more I learn about Lyme I am beginning to wonder if I got it from Mom at birth???? she will not even consider this as a possibility for her.

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bobdavis
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Member # 510

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Multiple bites over multiple years. Only two caused rashes that I remember. One from around Lake Tahoe it was a star tick, the rash was described as "Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever." (RMSF is NOT found out west) The second rash was from a nymph tick removed by a doctor, the rash was called "ring worm". That was whe I started bugging the doctors.

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