Wonder if I need to see the Doctor?...

Stanley Steamer · Thu 26, Mar 2009, 22:23:36

When I went to bed last night, I noticed some "welts" or what I thought might have been either BIG mosquito bites or maybe ant bites on my back...they were itching a little bit is how I noticed them....well, they are still swollen up tonight and my armpit was itching too, so I found a tick there...Abby pulled it out with tweezers and it was already dead....I'm betting these welts were made from the tick as it crawled up my body??...I wonder if I'd better go let the Dr. take a look in case the tick was carrying something??...

DavRed · Thu 26, Mar 2009, 22:33:22

YUCK!!!!!!! ??? Yes please go see a Doctor!!! Cause I dont want to see those Pics..... Just my Old Redneck point of view....

ChromeDome · Thu 26, Mar 2009, 22:43:33

Yes .... go see a Doctor!!

thumper · Thu 26, Mar 2009, 22:55:16

If I was drinking milk it would be shooting out of my nose right now!!!!! ???

Tonysax · Thu 26, Mar 2009, 23:03:33

DUDE......Go to doctors and get antibiotics, go get neosporin and cover those bites.......LYMES aint fun.

PAVALKER · Thu 26, Mar 2009, 23:20:39

$:-\$ If you don't think you want to go to the Dr's..... Maybe you should just go make sure your life insurance is paid up, will is made out and start making early final arrangements.

Brad · Fri 27, Mar 2009, 00:26:41

Gilligan · Fri 27, Mar 2009, 07:20:02

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R J · Fri 27, Mar 2009, 07:24:44

Stay out of the boonies and dat sheet won't happen.........

Scott in Ok · Fri 27, Mar 2009, 07:41:30

Rub a little dirt on it and quit being a little Sally.

-Scott

Stanley Steamer · Fri 27, Mar 2009, 07:54:59

I think I will just wait and see if it gets worse...I did save the tick for ID purposes.....

.....the Will has been made up, have Life insurance, and will watch what women I rub up against next time, naw, that's no fun....

.....

Chrisj CMA · Fri 27, Mar 2009, 08:04:54

No woman that has seen a guy infected with tics is gonna get within a mile of that guy ....you kidding me...........Run Pinks Run, hes INFECTED!

Who knows what else hes got:

LICE

FLEAS

BALOONING SPIDERS

CRABS

Holy cow man.....

PAVALKER · Fri 27, Mar 2009, 08:21:21

It was obvious that Tick musta liked ya.... but was having trouble finding the right sweet spot. Either it engorged itself on you and died a happy death or wasn't able to penetrate and kept trying to change dining tables (as evidenced by all the spots). You sure it was just one Tick? Did you check to determine if it was a male or female Tick?

According to Wikipedia.... Young ticks have six legs, and mature ticks have eight legs. They are about the size of a sesame seed, and males are black; females have a brick-red abdomen with a black shield-like plate close to their head.

Speaking of Wikipedia, you could submit your photos and become a famous internet sensation.

Stanley Steamer · Fri 27, Mar 2009, 08:38:10

it may be the "Lone Star Tick"...it has a small white dot on it's back...it was flat as a flitter, so I don't think it got any of my blood??...I saved it for ID just in case

Misfit · Fri 27, Mar 2009, 08:47:16

Quote from: Scott in Ok on Fri 27, Mar 2009, 07:41:30
Rub a little dirt on it and quit being a little Sally.

-Scott

Scott you took the words right out of my mouth.

JDW365 · Fri 27, Mar 2009, 08:57:38

SS maybe some leeches will help!!

Just place them close to the welts and let them SUCK!!!!

LOL!!

Redness is not a good sign, usually means some kinda infection. Lymes is definitely bad news don't wait go get checked out. It can take years to recoup from that and you won't be ridin' during that time. JDW

Black Pearl's Captain · Fri 27, Mar 2009, 09:01:02

It looks like AIDS to me. That should help you with the girls.

Raymond

sugarbee · Fri 27, Mar 2009, 09:01:46

ita, no hugs from me unless you have a clean bill of health - - I hope you are better by the time Cheaha gets here, or I just might not go

yuck! Love ya Stanley, but please, no mo pics like that, ....please

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Quote from: Chrisj CMA CR3M on Fri 27, Mar 2009, 08:04:54
No woman that has seen a guy infected with tics is gonna get within a mile of that guy ....you kidding me...........Run Pinks Run, hes INFECTED!

Who knows what else hes got:

LICE

FLEAS

BALOONING SPIDERS

CRABS

Holy cow man.....

Smokinjoe-VRCCDS#0005 · Fri 27, Mar 2009, 09:28:20

Lyme Disease $:-\$ I'd go get that looked at Steamer or wait around till it damn near kills you like I did with my lung and wish you had went sooner ...Go NOW and get it checked out.
http://www.health.state.ny.us/diseases/communicable/lyme/fact_sheet.htm

Stanley Steamer · Fri 27, Mar 2009, 09:49:27

Joe....with the way MY luck runs, I'd come down with Lyme disease, scarlet fever, or whatever else the boogeyman might send.....I sure don't want to get something that might hinder my riding time!!!...so I got a Dr's appt for 2pm today.....that dang bite in my armpit is itching something fierce!!...

Jabba · Fri 27, Mar 2009, 11:49:25

There are a lot of different kinds of ticks.

I get ticks pretty often.

Those are all tick bites if you ask me. Ticks don't normally die when they bite you... they usually feed and fall off. That's what I'd guess all the bites are. Not several bites from one tick.

The tick you found was probably not dead either... but rather killed when you extracted it. When I get tick bites, they itch for 60 or 90 days. It's a LONG time. I am hyper allergic to them I think.

Now the solution to your FUTURE issues...

Permanone. I buy it at Wal-Mart, and you spray your clothes with it. Do NOT spray yourself. Do not even spray your clothes while you are wearing them. The stuff is E V I L. But, it also prevents ticks, and it works on chiggers too, what I am a sponge for. This stuff KILLS the little blood suckers before they can bite you.

P E R M A N O N E.

It pyrethrecin I think. But I SWEAR by the stuff.

Turing turkey season I spray my clothes and put them in a trash bag overnight and let them stew... then take them out and hang them up to dry for 30 minutes or so before I head out. 1 treatment lasts 3-4 days. Retreat that often. Use it on your socks, shoes, gloves and hat too, and you'll go all season without a tick.

Jabba

Master Blaster · Fri 27, Mar 2009, 11:51:52

Looks like a dose of Chiggers, ie Red Bugs, in addition to the tick which from your discription is a Speck Back. The Chiger bites always itch more intensively than the Tick bites and cause more swelling and redness. You will live, although a little uncomfortably for the next few days.

Werner · Fri 27, Mar 2009, 12:40:23

I would say fleas !!!!!!!

Madmike · Fri 27, Mar 2009, 13:04:59

A tourist goes on a trip to China. While in China, he is very sexually promiscuous and does not use a condom all the time.

A week after arriving back home, he wakes one morning to find his penis covered with bright green and purple spots. Horrified, he immediately goes to see a doctor.

The doctor, never having seen anything like this before, orders some tests and tells the man to return in two days for the results. The man returns a couple of days later and the doctor says: "I've got bad news for you - you've contracted Mongolian VD. It's very rare and almost unheard of here. We know very little about it".

The man looks a little perplexed and says: "Well, give me a shot or something and fix me up, Doc".

The doctor answers: "I'm sorry, there's no known cure. We're going to have to amputate your penis".

The man screams in horror, "Absolutely not! I want a second opinion".

The doctor replies: "Well, it's your choice. Go ahead if you want, but surgery is your only choice".

The next day, the man seeks out a Chinese doctor, figuring that he'll know more about the disease. The Chinese doctor examines his penis and proclaims: "Ah, yes, Mongolian VD. Vely lare disease".

The guy says to the doctor: "Yeah, yeah, I already know that, but what can we do? My American doctor wants to operate and amputate my penis!"

The Chinese doctor shakes his head and laughs: "Stupid Amelican docta, always want to opelate. Make more money that way. No need to opelate!"

"Oh, Thank God!", the man replies.

"Yes", says the Chinese doctor, "You no worry! Wait two weeks. Dick fall off by itself! You save money."

hotglue #43 · Fri 27, Mar 2009, 13:09:03

Workin on the pipeline right of ways..... sometimes we would be in areas with LOTS of ticks and chiggers...Dusted my jeans with flowers of sulfur, and wore a dog flea collar on each boot. Worked real well!!!!! At least until ya had to lay down to make a weld on the pipe laid up on skids. Then they would get on ya.....

Madmike · Fri 27, Mar 2009, 13:21:08

The ticks up here chew into you and then the head breaks off if you try and pull them off and the head is left in you. They say the best way to get them off is cover them with Vaseline which makes it so they can't breath and so they back out of the bite - apparently they breath through their hind end. Some of the moose are so infested with them that they almost rub themselves bald in the spring trying to get them off.

Ms Old Skool · Fri 27, Mar 2009, 16:03:04

I'm thinking Abby put a curse on you.

Michael K (Az.) · Fri 27, Mar 2009, 16:39:54

I can't believe that nobody's come up with the ages old cure that we learned on our Grandpa's knee!
Goes something like this!
Shave 1/2 of each body appendage, spray the remaining hairy parts with charcoal lighter,(usta be lighter fluid but we don't smoke 'round here anymore, remember?)
When your afore mentioned offending critters run screaming from their fiery forest, simply stab each and everyone with your handy dandy ice pic and, Wala, problem's solved!
Sheesh, ya'll ride a great motorcycle and all but ya just don't know squat about medicin' yourownselves!

Black Pearl's Captain · Fri 27, Mar 2009, 20:17:09

My granddaddy said that was for lice and crabs, not ticks. We never fret over ticks, just stick a burning match or cigarette butt on the ticks ass until it let loose and yer done.

Raymond

Zorba · Fri 27, Mar 2009, 20:24:52

If it was a "Lone Star Tick" it would of had a Saddle on it and took 3 pints out of ya, lol!
Bro i had a friend got lyme desease in Arkansas and his life was a living Hell for the next 20 years the pain was so bad in his joints, his wife had to hide his guns from him, for real!
Go get checked out!!!!

Stanley Steamer · Fri 27, Mar 2009, 20:32:37

they took some blood samples and he told me the area around the bites looked infected and then put me on an antibiotic as a precautionary measure...and he told me that according to the blood test results, I might only have to take a weeks worth of pills but if the tick passed something on to me, then I'd have to take two weeks worth....

R J · Fri 27, Mar 2009, 22:23:09

Quote from: Misfit on Fri 27, Mar 2009, 08:47:16
Quote from: Scott in Ok on Fri 27, Mar 2009, 07:41:30
Rub a little dirt on it and quit being a little Sally.

-Scott

Scott you took the words right out of my mouth.

My thoughts on the topic also......... He is just wanting sympathy from the Pinks, but I think they have figured him out.

Wizzard · Sat 28, Mar 2009, 09:38:15

Quote from: Madmike on Fri 27, Mar 2009, 13:21:08
The ticks up here chew into you and then the head breaks off if you try and pull them off and the head is left in you. They say the best way to get them off is cover them with Vaseline which makes it so they can't breath and so they back out of the bite - apparently they breath through their hind end. Some of the moose are so infested with them that they almost rub themselves bald in the spring trying to get them off.

Sometimes at night my wife accuses me of breathing through my hind end.

Madmike · Mon 30, Mar 2009, 20:47:46

Quote from: Indianawizzard on Sat 28, Mar 2009, 09:38:15

Sometimes at night my wife accuses me of breathing through my hind end.

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In that case I'd suggest sleeping with one eye open and maybe you'd want to rethink the relationship if you catch her heading towards you with the Vaseline...............

ArmyValker · Mon 30, Mar 2009, 20:54:07

Definetly ticks! Last year I got sidetracked (lost) while hunting morels and came out with 50+ ticks on me. My legs also got pretty severely chigger-bit. I'd rather sleep with 100 ticks than get into a patch of chiggers!

Madmike · Mon 30, Mar 2009, 20:59:47

What is a "chigger"??

Stanley Steamer · Mon 30, Mar 2009, 21:02:18

small little "red" bugs that make you itch like hell...most often picked up if you go picking wild blackberries here in GA....

RP#62 · Mon 30, Mar 2009, 21:19:53

Quote from: Madmike on Mon 30, Mar 2009, 20:59:47
What is a "chigger"??

Its all explained here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4XPXRTsPpI&feature=related#

hotglue #43 · Mon 30, Mar 2009, 21:51:06

Yep RP... that's about right..... and they ALWAYS get in the worst places.... where it's impolite ta scratch......

Varmintmist · Tue 31, Mar 2009, 09:22:34

http://www.vermontcountrystore.com/browse/Home/For-The-Home/Pet-Care/2-Packages-Tick-Twister/D/30100/P/1:100:1030:10360/I/f11076?searchid=7KG1SRCH&feedid=googlenonbrand

Best thing yet to pull them. 2 dogs, 3 kids and me, I need something that works.

If it is Lyme and you get it fast its 14 days high test antibiotics.(< been here) If you catch it later, its intraveinous treatments.

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