The ticks are already out in SE Michigan wife found 2 on her clothes after just a 15 minute walk in the woods.
I used to live in the Sandhills of NC which is Longleaf Pine pine straw tick country. A walk through the pine straw occasionally collected a swarm of baby ticks or chiggers. I’ve had what seemed like thousands of baby ticks on my socks and lower legs.
For anyone interested. This is why I work two hours a day. Be careful out there I have zero idea why that documentary would be age restricted. damm censorship these days. Here’s the same video they haven’t had a chance to censor yet.
That's pretty serious stuff. I watched a few clips of the video and have heard a lot of bad stories. It seems like there is a connection between lyme - causing inflammation and ketosis- used as an anti-inflammatory. I eat cyclical keto and recommend it. Edit- there is also something about your gut biome. Homemade sauerkraut for the win!
Actually been thinking about the ticks coming out. Have a short attention span...sorry! What the premise of the video? Awareness and short time periods outside and you can get the ticks off of you before they become an issue, or working in the earlier hours of the day before the heat and the likelihood of ticks being active less likely?
The video is just an expose of the issues associated with chronic Lyme. A disease the CDC claims does not exist. My comment about two hours relates to the fact I have chronic Lyme. That’s all I can do
Yikes! We won’t have to worry about ticks here for a few months yet. What’s cool, is when we start seeing ticks in June - then we get an early to mid June hard freeze/snowstorm, and the ticks are gone for the rest of the summer!
I feel that the forum has made me more aware than anything of the risks of lymes disease. I knew about ticks and even lymes disease but it’s the first hand accounts of people like yourself that have me doing more to protect myself while out in the woods. Spray down as best I can and inspect/shower as soon as I’m done. Not sure what more to do. Thanks for sharing
Well that’s the CDC’s recent but useless term for it. No cure for it according to the CDC. They’ve given it a name but still suggest it doesn’t exist. We used to treat people for it in this country. The CDC pretty much ended that. There are some doctors that can still get away with it. Insurance won’t cover it because,,,the CDC says it’s not real. You could watch the video . I went through every damm thing in it to a tee. Doctors refused to talk about it. Holistic was the only choice.
A lot of people around here think we don't have ticks west of the cascades. Not true. My dog and I each get a few a year on us. My dog got her first one of 2021 a couple weeks ago out walking some clearcuts in the foothills. 2 summers ago somebody hit a deer in front of my house. It was LOADED with ticks, and I live west of I-5!
A friend of ours was recently diagnosed with Lyme. He just finished 2 weeks of doxycycline. Insurance covers this treatment. His symptoms were misdiagnosed for at least 3 months. When he started having facial numbness and thought he was having a stroke, they did all kinds of testing and scans before checking for Lyme. Neurologic Lyme disease | CDC There is a lot of info out there.
3 of 4 of my dogs have Lyme. My wife and mother in law also do. My wife have the doxycycline treatment also. She was incredibly sick for two weeks. She is 100 lbs and fit to be clear. The odd thing is, I spend 10-20x more time in the woods, but rarely get them. Chainsaw exhaust a deterrent to them maybe? Be safe all
3 months is fast. Try four years. At that point 2 weeks of Doxy is like peeing on a forest fire. Lyme is in fact easy to treat if diagnosed and treated quickly. That’s the problem in this country. The CDC test itself is heavily flawed and many doctors are hesitant to give it in the first place. It is slowly changing though but we went through a period where doctors were persecuted for having Lyme patients.
For tick spray you want Permethrine. Sawyer is the brand my sister swears by. Spray it on clothes and leave it. Supposed to last awhile even with washing. Personally I don’t even bother anymore. A tic bite can get me 28 days of Doxy. It doesn’t cure it but it can knock down some of the symptoms for a couple months. Your own immune system can keep it at bay for years too. Not entirely maybe but enough where you may not seek medical attention. If you have it and your immune system succumbs with time that’s when the real trouble starts. Everyone is different tho as to what symptoms develop and they don’t all hit at once. Very cyclical until,some sort of treatment allows the immune system to get on top. Doesn’t mean it goes away tho. It’s just dug in deeper where drugs and white blood cells can’t get to it.
My dad had it for over 10 years in NC where the doctor in that documentary was working. The whole time they told has NC does not have Lyme. Long story short it’s not the doctors it’s the insurance companies that drive the treatment. It is really a screwed up system but we in the US still have the best health care in the world. I pray for anybody dealing with it. It’s tough and hard on the families as well. My dad will have to take a week a month of antibiotics for the rest of his life but at least he has one. I hate ticks.
I pulled a tick out of the back of my leg up by my hamstring when I woke up in the middle of the night last night. I feel like they never truly go away anymore here in south Jersey. I’ve been bit by 100’s of ticks with no issues so I consider myself lucky. My biggest fear with ticks is the lone star tick that can make you allergic to red meat and pork. Life without those would be nearly as fun for me
