Ticks

[Bowguy]

Seen some posts about the critters. I've never been afraid of them even when embedded. This season about a week in after tests for some other issues I was tested for Lyme. I tested positive. Dr said it looks by some numbers he used the they're in me good.
No big deal cause I'm not feeling a thing.
Dr gives me Docy cycline. Man that stuff was rough on me. Made me really  nauseous. Again something I can handle but I was insanely beat. Sometimes slept the whole weekend day n night.
Slept coffee break at work n lunchtime.
Dr said the Lyme bacteria was dying off n releasing toxins that's why the issue.
Now I went again to Dr n tested positive for babesi. Another tick disease.
Kind of killed my whole season.
Guys it's been posted before but protect yourself

[mikejd]

Sux man. Me and my wife both have lyme. Also from NJ.

She has a dozen other issues all related to the lyme.
It's no joke. I have them on my mind everything I do now. Don't even want to let my kids outside.

I have a treestand I need to move and don't even want to go do it now.

I have been on 3 cycles of Doxy in the last 8 months. Symptoms not so bad right now.

I have heard some good things about the elimitick camo. Probably going to give that a try.

[Cut N Run]

Sorry to hear that.  I hope you get to feeling better soon.


A few of my friends contracted that Red Meat Virus from ticks. Chicken, turkey, & fish is about all they eat anymore.  Two other friends caught Ehrlichiosis that really knocked them down for a bit. 

I have no use for ticks and get great pleasure burning the little pests whenever I find them.

Jim

[milertyme03]

They are rampant in northern NY.  I treat my hunting clothes with permethrin and have yet to get one with that.  The last 2 days at work I have picked up 4, luckily I found them b4 they attached.

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[mikejd]

They are rampant in northern NY.  I treat my hunting clothes with permethrin and have yet to get one with that.  The last 2 days at work I have picked up 4, luckily I found them b4 they attached.

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Were abouts in NY you seeing them.

[nativeks]

My wife works in a medical lab. They thought our son had tularemia a couple months ago. I've had over 50 tick bites this year. Last weekend I had 13 and that was using deet based repellent. My wife says it will be a miracle if I don't end up with a tickborne disease.

[Will]

Scary stuff no doubt. If you could see the the environment my oldest son has hunted, marshes, woods and thickets it was amazing how well we prevented tick bites. A few summers ago he gets a tick bite after rolling in the yard with the dog and he gets the disease. Be mindful it goes farther than hunting season. I still think there is a lot of unknowns with Lymes.

[milertyme03]

I'm is st Lawrence county.  Make sure u guys use permethrin! 

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[Turkeyman]

We're kind of lucky in one aspect. Permethrin appears to be the only truly effective deterrent....just think if we didn't have it. Hunting KS several years ago sans permethrin I used to pick off about a dozen ticks a season. Now I treat all my clothes from hat down to my socks. I use a concentrate purchased from Amazon and mix to the formula C1V1=C2V2 to attain the .5% concentration.

[MickT]

DEET is only a repellent, and a poor one for ticks at that. That just means the tick keeps running until it finds a place you missed to attach.

Use permethrin. I have literally watched ticks fall off my treated clothes. They die if they don't get off in time. I rarely find one crawling on me either. We all think it won't happen to us until it does. I have seen the lingering effects of tick-borne illnesses on friends and it can be downright unpleasant.

A company called Insect Shield in NC will permanently treat your clothes with permethrin. Anyone who works in the woods should consider it.


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[dutch@fx4]

I wish it was approved for humans in Canada..we Van get it in the horse section of the local farmers supply.

[MK M GOBL]

Seen some posts about the critters. I've never been afraid of them even when embedded. This season about a week in after tests for some other issues I was tested for Lyme. I tested positive. Dr said it looks by some numbers he used the they're in me good.
No big deal cause I'm not feeling a thing.
Dr gives me Docy cycline. Man that stuff was rough on me. Made me really  nauseous. Again something I can handle but I was insanely beat. Sometimes slept the whole weekend day n night.
Slept coffee break at work n lunchtime.
Dr said the Lyme bacteria was dying off n releasing toxins that's why the issue.
Now I went again to Dr n tested positive for babesi. Another tick disease.
Kind of killed my whole season.
Guys it's been posted before but protect yourself

Hope you are getting better, I had a buddy that had a number of issues from Lyme's. As some had said "Permethrin" I use Sawyers and have not had a tick in years, still always check but that stuff works.

MK M GOBL

[tha bugman]

Ticks are bad this year IMO


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[Bowguy]

Seen some posts about the critters. I've never been afraid of them even when embedded. This season about a week in after tests for some other issues I was tested for Lyme. I tested positive. Dr said it looks by some numbers he used the they're in me good.
No big deal cause I'm not feeling a thing.
Dr gives me Docy cycline. Man that stuff was rough on me. Made me really  nauseous. Again something I can handle but I was insanely beat. Sometimes slept the whole weekend day n night.
Slept coffee break at work n lunchtime.
Dr said the Lyme bacteria was dying off n releasing toxins that's why the issue.
Now I went again to Dr n tested positive for babesi. Another tick disease.
Kind of killed my whole season.
Guys it's been posted before but protect yourself

Hope you are getting better, I had a buddy that had a number of issues from Lyme's. As some had said "Permethrin" I use Sawyers and have not had a tick in years, still always check but that stuff works.

MK M GOBL

Thanks I actually did use sawyers n still would up w a couple. The disease was older though

[HFultzjr]

I don't even know how I would hunt or scout without using permethrin!