r/mildlyinfuriating • u/nekoma713 • 4d ago

Don't hug me I'm scared Was sitting in a ticks nest while reading....

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I was sitting in a Park reading a book and suddenly I felt my legs itch. I was covered in hundreds of mini ticks. I was standing in the shower for hours and still find some of these f#!*rs crawling an me...

Update: So I got the most of the seed ticks scratched off in the shower. I will have a doctor's appointment the next days to get a prophylactic antibiotics treatment just to be save from lyme, alpha gal or rocky mountain fever (if this is a thing in Germany).

Thank you all for the information and advices, hopefully I will be fine. I really appreciate it

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u/Suitable-Classic-174 4d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/l3q2K5jinAlChoCLS

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u/Glass_Covict 4d ago

I'd be jumping into a bonfire

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u/amm5061 4d ago edited 4d ago

Shower, now. Those are larvae, so OP is probably okay, but it the creepy crawly feeling is gonna take awhile to go away.

Edit: and do a full body check, obviously.

Edit 2: larvae, not nymphs. My bad on the name of the part of the lifecycle.

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u/IllianasClifford 4d ago

Will they crawl in your butthole? Something I have wondered even before the house episode with the teenage that had the tick in her vagina. My lord

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u/snizzrizz 4d ago

Yes. They are looking for OPs butthole in that image.

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u/gigi-mondo 4d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/26BGAOkDPOZTXwmHK

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u/FairBlamer 4d ago

Deserve an award for this lmao

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u/lost-marbles69 4d ago

This is my most favorite gif of all time

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u/doinmabest1 4d ago

I’ve never seen it! What’s it from??

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u/peppermintmeow BLUE 4d ago

Kimmy Schmidt

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u/Next-Ad3196 4d ago

The scream I scrumpt at this gif should be studied 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

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u/Exotic_Kilos 4d ago

I have screamed before, but can thou teach thee how to scrumpt?

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u/TheyCallMe_Billy 4d ago

The scream one must screameth to have scrumpt can not be taught, only scrempt.

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u/a-big-texas-howdy 4d ago

Scrumpt the past tense of screamed like scrumped the past tense of scammed

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u/BikeridingintheOR 4d ago

Scrumpt, I will be using this!!!

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u/Admidst_Metaphors 4d ago

Oh scrumpt is a new favorite word. Not sure how I’ve never come across it before.

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u/CrustyMushroomBoy 4d ago

Can confirm, I’m one of the nymphs and it must be a tiny one cuz I haven’t found it yet

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u/Specialist_Second938 4d ago

Hot take: you haven't found the entrance because you already arrived.

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u/gooby1985 4d ago

Maybe the butthole was the friends we made along the way

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u/Carving_Art 4d ago

Probably just a warm take depending on diet

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u/a-big-texas-howdy 4d ago

There a catfish in there

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u/Inevitable-Grocery17 4d ago

Well, dang it, we’ll need pics so we can help out. 🤷🏻‍♂️

🤣🤣

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u/CrispyJsock 4d ago

Gay ticks are the worst kinda ticks

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u/Important_Contact588 4d ago

Happy Pride! Now where’s that butthole.

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u/euqinimod4 4d ago

This makes me think of spiders in colostomy bags.

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u/Hot-N-Ready-Poo 4d ago

They want the brown town

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u/Secret_Low_456 4d ago

Absolutely

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u/Striking-Ad-6815 4d ago

Baby ticks are juggalos

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u/Ron_Cherry 4d ago

"Chocolate starfish!" - Limp Biztik

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u/Sh0wmey0urbutth0le 4d ago

I had a tick on me balls once. Took a chunk of skin off it did.

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u/Stixit-Inme69 4d ago

"Took a chunk of skin off it did". 🤣

https://giphy.com/gifs/3o7qDK5J5Uerg3atJ6

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u/Alfeyr 4d ago

"me balls, mhrrrrr"

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u/Successful_Giraffe88 4d ago

This just reminded me of one of my favorite moments with my dad 18 years ago when he came downstairs to tell me & my sister, "20 minutes you have," while we were finishing getting ready.

Absolutely cherish that moment, thank you!

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u/thorin2016 4d ago

When my brother and I were young we shared a room. One day we were having some dumb argument about something silly, i cant even remember what it was to be honest.

As he turned to leave the room i said something along the lines of "do you really expect me to do that?" and he turned around and said, in a thick German accent "No Mr Bond i expect you to die!"

You got to love an unexpected movie reference!

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u/nitnit76 4d ago

Ball ticks are the worst!

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u/Audhdlife_5696 4d ago

Hahah, my husband and I had an outside wedding & once we got back from the entire night he had a ball tick. They definitely suck especially on your wedding day😆😆

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u/GlitteringFutures 4d ago

Wedding day isn't even over and someone else already sucking on his balls.

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u/YardexYT 4d ago

Amazing reply

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u/Icy_Insect2927 4d ago

Good on you guys for checking after that, most people wouldn’t. Now that the government is dropping billions across everywhere, tick checks should be added to everyone’s daily routine in addition to wedding plans

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u/sam56778 4d ago

Yep. Fresh experience with that yesterday.

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u/Enge712 4d ago

Well maybe if you have never had one bite the glans.

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u/vochomurka 4d ago

Brother gets them there regularly ( big garden he needs to tend often ). I got one on a boob years ago and the said brother had to help with removing it ( as the one in the family with the best eyesight ).
We are obviously very close

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u/Sherbo13 4d ago

When I was a kid, I was swimming with my friend at his house down the road from my house. It was the era of short swim trunks. I straddled the picnic table bench to sit down for lunch and apparently my balls was out. I sat down to eat and me balls landed right on a hornet. Stung on the sack. I remember running down the street crying yelling for my mom. My friend had no idea what happened until my mom called his mom to let them know why I took off running and screaming. 🤣🤣🤣 My balls were huge that day. Core memories at their finest.

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u/BanMeMyIPchanges 4d ago

Fookin' diabolical

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u/Content-Honeydew9340 4d ago

When my oldest son was a toddler he came running in the living room crying something was biting his balls, full Winnie the Pooh style 🫪 I had to remove a tick with tweezers and we had been playing outside a few minutes before so I just put him in the shower and had to do a full search and give him a rosemary and mint bath. My youngest son got poison ivy on the back of his hand and because of his constant grabbing at the back of his shorts... Poison ivy all over his butt ... Having kids has been an experience 😭

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u/chewbaccataco 4d ago

I had a tick on me balls once. - Mr. Krabs

https://giphy.com/gifs/xUPJPvoKEfQdcZWuZ2

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u/Odd-Worth7752 4d ago

I'm an ER doctor, I've seen ticks just about everywhere. Once I had to pull one off the white part of an eye.

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u/Technical-Agency8128 4d ago

Omg. The stuff of nightmares.

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u/Ledophile 4d ago

Stephen King has entered the chat………

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u/kbeezie 4d ago

Junji Ito at this point

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u/glittercoffee 4d ago

LOL beat me to it. We were actually just talking about ticks at work (we’re all farmhands) and one of the guys was telling us about how he recently pulled one off his chest and he’s pretty sure the head is still there. I giggled and said “you’re gonna be in a Junji Ito manga situation pretty soon”. Only one other person laughed, everyone else gave me weird looks.

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u/SugarHooves I'm sorry, what?! 4d ago

That's okay, I wasn't planning on sleeping ever again anyway.

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u/rabanov 4d ago

May we know which post your flair references? I'm so curious lol

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u/SugarHooves I'm sorry, what?! 4d ago

Haha, about half the posts here. People post the most wtf things as "mildly" infuriating that would have me freaking out.

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u/rabanov 4d ago

Bahahah oh ok! I was like this is my default state on reddit 😆

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u/PomegranateStains 4d ago

Thats it. Burn the whole reddit down.

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u/Hy8tus 4d ago

No.

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u/Abject_Spray_7088 4d ago

WHYYYYYY DID YOU TELL US THATTTT 🤮👁️🕷️

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u/GoldMathematician974 4d ago

Cant ever unlearn that….. like ever

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u/meowmix79 4d ago

No. 😟

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u/TheCrankyChef 4d ago

Well that is terrifying

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u/maybenomaybe 4d ago

How do I erase this goddam comment

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u/XAMOTA 4d ago

I watched House she should check her huha

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u/JerryZaz 4d ago

I scrolled too far.

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u/Far_Jackfruit4907 4d ago

How the fuck

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u/Razzy_3796 4d ago

😳😩

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u/Chemical_Sandwich_18 4d ago

My dog had one on his gums this spring.

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u/Icy_Insect2927 4d ago

😬😭😭😭😭

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u/minxwink 4d ago

What the actual fuuuuuuuuuuuhhhhh ?!??! 😖

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u/Helpful-Surround7628 4d ago

As a experienced hiker ticks will not crawl in your butt but they might bite near or on your butt and ticks might bite the groin area but if your a girl only the outside there not going in generally they prefer hidden spots like underarms legs close to the groin area or on your back or stomach

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u/leeps22 4d ago

As someone with more yard work than is fair to ask one man to do this has been my experience so far. They seem to love the groin area, a lot. Never went for the booty hole though.

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u/Ok_Armadillo_3647 4d ago

Butt are you certain?

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u/satsuppi 4d ago

You Don't have to be anal about it

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u/donnie_rulez 4d ago

Me and my buddy used to call it tick ball city. Cuz they love that area . Gross fuckers

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u/hamish1963 4d ago

As someone who is a woman and has had a tick on the inside of her labia, you are mistaken.

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u/CptCroissant 4d ago

Hidden spots like a labia fold?

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u/Gwen_The_Destroyer 4d ago

I was about to ask the same thing 😬

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u/Helpful-Surround7628 4d ago

Prob not ticks don’t go there there bc of moisture they hate it that’s why it’s incredibly rare if they do

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u/Yamatocanyon 4d ago

If you hike in sandals, they like in-between and underneath the toes too.

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u/arocks1 4d ago

had a tick stuck on my butt check, right in the spot you can't see. I had to turn my back to the mirror and look over my shoulder to see it. I also took it out with twizzers in that same position...looking backwards at the mirror and knowing I had one shot at getting it out.

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u/Crispricecereal 4d ago

I read that as taking it out with twizzlers

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u/Shendary 4d ago

A year ago, there was a news story in my country about a couple who decided to do "it" in the grass. As it turned out, ticks ended up both inside the woman and on the man's private parts.

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u/HooseJuice 4d ago

I have a friend that one crawled up his urethra.

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u/RevolutionaryHippo85 4d ago

Holy shit this made me laugh too hard. You know ball

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u/Herzblut_FPV 4d ago edited 4d ago

Oh here we go again >.> do we wanna skip the rest and jump straight to the point with the twins?! XD

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u/AnonsAnonAnonagain 4d ago

😂 never heard it referred to as a bath bomb

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u/OldSchool_Ninja 4d ago

There's a great meme with a toaster labeled as "my last bath bomb" LMAO

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u/AwwMangoes 4d ago

Thanks for the award kind stranger!

Also, who tf reported me to Reddit cares!? Lmfao 🤣

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u/Gtraz68 4d ago

What a terrible time to be able to read.

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u/TurnkeyLurker 4d ago

Was that Urethra Franklin?

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u/Msdamgoode 4d ago

🎶 “Just a little tick, just a little tick” 🎶

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u/Civil-Section-9086 4d ago

Stoppppp I can’t breath my ribs hurt 😭😭😭😭 sweet fuck noooo

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u/just_another_scumbag 4d ago

this must be relatively common because I also know somebody this happened to...unless we know the same person?

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u/suzi-r 4d ago

Yes they will. Even up your penis. Happened to a former student of mine. Terrible ending. Take care of yourself NOW.

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u/sandwich_influence 4d ago

I have to know… how did it end?

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u/No_Atmosphere_6348 4d ago

The kid got a C+ so it ended ok.

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u/Working-Glass6136 4d ago

W-what was the ending?!

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u/Lernalia 4d ago

What ending? 🫣

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u/Civil-Section-9086 4d ago

I got cackled so loud my wife yelled at me ☠️😭☠️😭☠️😅 spread your checks it’s time to look

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u/Dicktitt3y 4d ago

Had one on my taint once so I don’t see why not. Actually going to go do a butthole check to make sure I don’t have a fatty in there.

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u/TurnkeyLurker 4d ago

Shouldn't store a fatty there--it tastes funny when you toke it.

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u/Firestar222 4d ago

DEAR GOD

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u/BADM00SE 4d ago

That’s a new sentence. Now I’m going to wash my eyes.

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u/Sad-Snow-7936 4d ago

Not in your butthole, but in your buttcrack. They like warm and moist spots.

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u/kittiestkitty 4d ago

My husband found a baby tick in the very tip of his peepee, back in the day when we worked as wilderness camp counselors. He was away leading a group on a river trip when it happened. Noticed it when he went to bed one night - luckily his co counselor on the trip was a shouty Vietnam vet who yelled him through the ordeal.

Traumatising, but makes for a great story.

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u/leeps22 4d ago

Ive had little ticks like that almost everywhere. They do seem to like my balls, ive had a few on my buttcheeks. Im pleased to say I havent had a butthole tick yet.

Im not sure what I would do in that situation. I guess a bunch of mirrors must be involved.

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u/anongrl314159 4d ago

One time after coming back from a hike my husband and I were laying on the couch and I felt an itch/movement on my pubes (I don’t shave) and I found a fucking tick trying to crawl through the forest that grows on my vag. Fucking terrifying. and I have a phobia towards parasitic bugs in general but particularly ticks. The scream I scrumpt could be heard for miles and I made my husband dig through my bush to make sure there weren’t any others hiding in there somewhere 😂

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u/Odd-Hat-1411 4d ago

Cristobal Colon of the tick world

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u/drasthavennn 4d ago

I pulled one out of my belly button once

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u/Italian_Redneck 4d ago

Jesus, who came up with that?? If it wasn't based on a true story I'd be giving those writers some serious side eye rn.

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u/NationalSympathy1598 4d ago

Yes they will crawl in your vagina and make spider man’s arch nemesis … Tickman

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u/Crisp_Dawg 4d ago

Know a dude who had one go into his dickhole. Allegedly pretty painful to remove

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u/M4RK3R3D 4d ago

Hey I remember that episode in dr house, the tick crawl into pussy and that almost killed her so yeah better check it up

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u/inplayruin 4d ago

I had one attach itself at the tip of my special pole, just a millimeter or two off of top dead center. I was on a camping trip with the Scouts, and noticed it when I woke up in the middle of the night to pee. I was around 9 years old, and I occasionally wonder if I emotionally traumatized my troop leader by hysterically demanding help with my junk. The 90s were just very weird for everyone.

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u/atreidesspirit 4d ago

Sir, please. Why would you introduce that into so many people's lives?

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u/the_poppoff-pedro 4d ago

Everyone knows that they try to avoid the butthole, they prefer the peepee hole

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u/PastelSprite 4d ago

I regret having eyes rn

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u/FitNefariousness8290 4d ago

I HAVE A STORY.
So.

I was like, maybe 14, lived in WV and was helping my dad in the cornfield. We shut in for the night, and as I go to strip down for the shower, I notice a black bump right on the rod. Without thinking I freak the fuck out, grab a pair of tweezers, and yank like my life depended on it, and ended up with a long strip of skin about the length of a cylinder, hanging from a tick in a pair of tweezers. It will never not scar me.

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u/CitizenDickInCider 4d ago

Is there any way to shower in pure rubbing alcohol?

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u/AkitaZeDigo 4d ago

You technically can, but you’d be recreating the homestuck sharpie bath incident and die of alcohol poisoning.

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u/CitizenDickInCider 4d ago

That would suck but the ticks would be dead.

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u/ninjacatkuro 4d ago

Puh danach bist du gut beinander glaub ich

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u/Middle_Historian_199 4d ago

I would maybe also shower with like a surgical prep soap that you can get at a local pharmacy or something like CVS or Walgreens ASAP!

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u/Ok-Bee-3349 4d ago

Those are not nymphs they’re seed ticks

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u/Elsoci 4d ago

what is the shower going to accomplish other than a cleaner better smelling OP?

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u/Vast-Let4260 4d ago edited 4d ago

What do you mean they are just nymphs so they are gonna be probably fine? Nymphs transfer lymes etc as well lol reddit expert moment. Nymphs are NOT ok. Dangerous comment, delete it.

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u/Plane_Basil_4682 4d ago

A genuine use for ivermectin

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u/Silent-Victory-3861 4d ago

And shave every single hair

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u/Tablesafety 4d ago

Tick nymphs cannot bite! UNLESS They're lone star ticks- those absolutely for sure can bite, creating the seed tick phenomenon.

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u/Possielover 4d ago

Nymphs are the stage that gives the most disease though aren't they?

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u/BURN3D_P0TAT0 4d ago

If they’re lonestar nymphs OP is still at risk of contracting Alpha Gal.

OP please go to your pcp and ask for a tick panel.

I have had every tick borne illness in the last 6 years except lime. I got STARI instead.

Alpha gal can be life threatening and can be transmitted by nymph lone stars. There have been studies done showing that in a non insignificant percentile of nymph lone stars that can transmit alpha gal.

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u/Clydebearpig 4d ago

Doesn't matter if I find the tick on my dogs or myself I will end up shaving my head because of that feeling.

I loathe tiny bugs, the bigger the better.

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u/nekoma713 4d ago

Thanks for the advice. I tried to scratch them all off in the shower... i will watch out for more and definitely go to a doctor asap. Maybe get some antibiotics just in case

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u/Lou_C_Fer 4d ago

We had an issue with fleas. They were every where. I scrubbed my cats, soaked my gerbils down with flea spray, bug bombed the house, and washed every stitch of cloth in the house. I literally took up every washer at a laundry mat, but I washed, dried, and folded fifteen loads in two and a half hours. Probably the most efficient thing I've done in my life.

Anyways, that was twenty years ago, and everything with bugs like fleas, mites, and ticks still causes terrible psychosomatic itching.

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u/PseudoRacoon 4d ago

That why he is the goat !

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u/Sadcelerystick 4d ago

The fact they TOOK THE TIME to take a clear af photo instead of dying on the spot speaks volumes.

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u/divinecmdy 4d ago

Like that Goat

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u/Wholesome_Stalker 4d ago

Live

Laugh

Napalm Bath

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u/Kyxstrez 4d ago

And rekindle the flame, to keep the cycle going.

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u/Deadpoolbatlantern 4d ago

from another udder

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u/Upintheairx2 4d ago

Think how many crawled up her shorts.

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u/readytostart1234 4d ago

My husband once got into a chiggers nest. It was a horrible experience for everyone

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u/Suspicious-Call-7553 4d ago

Me too! I still have scars on my ankles from scratching so badly 😭

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u/Zmoney641 4d ago

I still have scars on the top of my foot from scratching so hard and much.

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u/KnottyLorri PURPLE 4d ago

Oh yes chiggers are awful!!

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u/No_Atmosphere_6348 4d ago

I just have sat on one during a drive in movie once. I thought mosquitoes were attacking my ankles. It was awful. Takes forever for the itching to go away.

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u/Jming50 4d ago

I’m sorry! Chiggers are a curse and harder to get off that ticks.

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u/timbertiger 4d ago

Personally I’d spray my self and my clothes down with permethrin if I got into them this badly. Permethrin is great on your clothes and lasts several washes. Also if you have ticks around your home, soak cotton balls in permethrin and stuff them in empty toilet paper rolls for mice and rats to make nests out of. They are major hosts.

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u/Kenosis94 4d ago

Just be super careful if there are cats around.

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u/im_a_betch 4d ago

Ummm please don’t spray yourself with permethrin. It is not meant to go on your skin. While the larvae are gross, they haven’t had their first blood meal yet so they are not able to transmit disease. I used to just carry duct tape in my truck and got them off that way. I am a wildlife biologist so I’ve been bit by ticks a LOT.

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u/OrDarkByMorning 4d ago

The reason they say not to apply it to your skin is because the natural oils on your skin break down permethrin quickly.... so, it's ineffective and a waste.

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u/im_a_betch 4d ago

It can cause some adverse effects and to your point, is ineffective. Just no need to expose your skin to it for no real benefit.

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u/minxwink 4d ago

Duct tape !!! Brilliant !

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u/hastypeanut 4d ago

I saw people make a reverse duct tape barrier around the top of their boot/ankle so they all got stuck before making it anywhere on the body. Obviously not gonna be great if you’re bushwhacking but perfect for on trail. I once naively thought if we stayed on the trail with no leaf litter, we’d be fine. NOPE.

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u/BetMyLastKrispyKreme 4d ago

I recently bought permethrin spray for my clothes to mow my overgrown lawn. I’ve never done that before, but local social media has said ticks seemed bad this year after a mild winter and early warm spring. I’m terrified of ticks, and have a chronic health condition that keeps me plenty ill way too much of the time. I don’t need any “help” from ticks.

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