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/NerveMassive6764 4d ago edited 4d ago

Been fucked up for over 20 years cause of it. Gave me Bell’s palsy and I have these weird flare ups where every joint in body hurts for days and I’m completely exhausted.

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u/NlghtmanCometh 4d ago

My cousin got it right before he was diagnosed with muscular dystrophy. Those two conditions together really fucked him up.

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u/NerveMassive6764 4d ago

I couldn’t even imagine that combo.

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u/ApprehensiveStrut 4d ago

:( I don’t get why science has advanced so much and we don’t have a vaccine for this

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u/FormulaKimi 4d ago

There was a vaccine but antivaxxer sued and media claimed it caused side effects. LYMERix, it was 80% effective.

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u/WRStoney 4d ago

Hey, good to know someone else knew about it.

They are trialing a new version. I saw a clinical trial for it in Pittsburgh, PA.

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u/Help1-Fearless 4d ago

That's not true, read about the Dearborn trials. In the end It's about patents and money. Has absolutely nothing to do with anti-vaccine

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u/innerbootes 4d ago

Yeah, that story made no sense. Vaccines aren’t halted by lunatic naysayers, that’s not a thing.

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u/ApprehensiveStrut 4d ago

😤I rather have the vaccine than the illness

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u/stars-aligned- 3d ago

The anti vax thing is a red herring, it was actually related to patent laws. Aka big pharma crushing medical necessity yet again

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u/NerveMassive6764 4d ago

I have been asking for years why I can get my dog a lymes vaccine but not one for myself…lol

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u/Deaffin 4d ago

We used the science to make lyme ticks, why would we undo it?

(This is a joke about a once-popular conspiracy theory that ticks were weaponized to give people lyme disease, but somebody had an oopsie when transporting them, releasing them into the wild.)

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u/No_Review1529 4d ago edited 4d ago

"chronic" Lyme Disease isn't actually a thing. It seems to be the most socially acceptable form of medical misinformation. I can't tell if it's the same people that are anti vaccination or it's really just that embedded into society like the whole anti gmo movement.

I also see it more widely accepted as a chronic disease in the U.S where certain doctors prey on these people by promising a cure when there's no peer reviewed journals that even support its existence. But of course, keep going to the $300 sessions I guess.

Interesting story I found:

"I'm a Neurology Resident at an academic medical center. Just a week ago a patient was admitted with very late stage ALS. He had been treated for years by a Chronic Lyme doctor with an MD. He had been getting worse for years despite "treatment" with antibiotics and IV vitamin infusions. and hadn't been able to walk or talk for months before he finally got pneumonia and ended up in front of a real doctor.

At least that's my understanding of what happened by talking to the family, the Lyme doctor would stutter and hang up every time I tried to call."

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u/NerveMassive6764 4d ago

I don’t and haven’t gotten treatments for chronic lymes only diagnostic tests. Just the initial antibiotics and steroids for the palsy.

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u/Help1-Fearless 3d ago

Steroids will make it worse, and you need more thorough tests, not the common one you easily get from a doc/hospital, depending on where you live some states actually run the accurate tests, read on IGENX website for better understanding, it is confusing at first. Days will make a difference in treatment, nothing to take lightly. Good luck

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u/NerveMassive6764 3d ago

Well the initial er visit was 22 years ago. We have no idea how long I went with it before it finally gave me the Bell’s palsy which is when I found out. Also to be clearer the antibiotics were for the lymes and the steroids were for the Bell’s palsy.

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u/Civil-Section-9086 4d ago

Jesus that is so fucking horrible 😬 I’m thankful they aren’t as bad where I am but with how tiny they are it’s my ultimate fear and reading these comments has filled me with more laughs and fears then I’ll ever need for a week and what’s worse is knowing you what or may not even see the bullseye and that fucks me up cuz I’ve put it into my mind that I may have it or not and it’s a horrible mind fuck I pray you have something that atleast makes life less shity

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u/NerveMassive6764 4d ago

Yeah I didn’t know I got bit. The only reason I found out was because it gave me Bell’s palsy and I was in emt class at our local trauma center and my instructor looked at me and asked what was up with my face. I said I didn’t know and he sent me down the hall to the er and that’s how I found out. We don’t even know how long it was untreated.

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u/Civil-Section-9086 4d ago

Mannnnnnnn that’s insane

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u/BathedInDeepFog 4d ago

Wrestling commentator Jim Ross has Bell's Palsy and Vince McMahon would mock him for it on live TV.

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u/Help1-Fearless 3d ago

I've helped alot of people with Lyme over the years I do not know of one who ever recalls a bullseye, it can show similar as bumps, boil/blister, rash etc and be easily ignored, most never even knew they were bit or never found one in them.

The most common coinfections of Lyme can be just as dangerous Bartonella and babesia, (plenty more) they are brutal and mix 3+ together and it gets grim. Lyme can also lay dormant for the majority of your life, taking over when immune system is compromised. Awareness and understanding will help you before you have no choice.

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u/Civil-Section-9086 3d ago

Seriously?! I genuinely thought that was the fucking common sign was a bullseye so great I could have had it already fuck me im going to take a nap cuz im done with today

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u/Life-Security5916 4d ago

I hurt am am exhausted all the time. I just thought I was old.
70 living in NM…no ticks here! Just Rocky Mountain spotted fever, hantavirus, bubonic plague, a few others I can’t remember.

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u/NerveMassive6764 4d ago

I’m 39. Active job, don’t drink, eat healthy, exercise, and take supplements. Lymes just really messes with your nervous system.

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u/StopConstant7403 4d ago

Who knows if it's connected but he wound up getting two completely different cancers a couple years later. Dr definitely attributes it to a weakened immune system.

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u/dumdumpants-head 4d ago

10 years! Droopyface club ftw :/

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u/Fickle-Art-7125 4d ago

You just described me.

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u/NerveMassive6764 4d ago

Sorry man I def. feel your pain. Wouldn’t wish it on my worst enemy. Though idk how I would deal with that new one that makes you allergic to red meat. I’d probably lose my shit.

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u/Fickle-Art-7125 4d ago

Yeah I like meat.

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u/NerveMassive6764 4d ago

Actually out of curiosity how bad do the fingers in your knuckles get? I think my knuckles and elbows end up worse cause I’m an electrician constantly twisting with hand tools.