Board 8 > I just removed a tick that's been burrowed in me for a couple days now.

(+) Yeah! (+)

Long story as to why it was there that long.

Anyway, my body is feeling strangely stiff and sore, and it's been getting worse even since the tick was removed.

I would look up Lyme Disease information, but then I'll just convince myself I have all the symptoms. So instead I'm going to ask the veritable super database of knowledge that is Board 8 whether I should see a doctor.

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Go see a doctor.

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LeonhartFour posted...

Go see a doctor.

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From: LeonhartFour | #002
Go see a doctor.

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SantaRPG posted...

lyme disease is a myth I've had hundreds of limes and I'm fine

I find that limes are best when added to something else, like say, a drink.

Also, try taking some advil or something.

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Also, make sure it's not the tick that makes you allergic to red meat.

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Early symptoms may include fever, headache, fatigue, depression, and a characteristic circular skin rash called erythema migrans (EM). Left untreated, later symptoms may involve the joints, heart, and central nervous system. In most cases, the infection and its symptoms are eliminated by antibiotics, especially if the illness is treated early.[6] Delayed or inadequate treatment can lead to the more serious symptoms, which can be disabling and difficult to treat.

Rash in the shape of a bulls-eye as well. So yeah, anyway....


GO TO THE DOCTOR

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It wasn't a Lone Star tick, right?


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Make sure you thank B8 if it actually is Lyme disease (minor foul language NSFW):


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From: SantaRPG | #005
but seriously go see a doctor. Bring the tick.

You can look up the tick online and see if it's one of the kind that carries it.
Welp, it's too late for either of those things. Although I guess I could always look it up off memory, but that seems unreliable.

From: Ace_Killjoy | #008
Also, make sure it's not the tick that makes you allergic to red meat.
... that's not real, right?

... right?

From: Jukkie | #009
Early symptoms may include fever, headache, fatigue, depression, and a characteristic circular skin rash called erythema migrans (EM). Left untreated, later symptoms may involve the joints...

Rash in the shape of a bulls-eye as well.
I hate you so much right now. (not really)

I have been fatigued, I have a circular/bulls-eye rash where the tick was, my joints hurt, and now I've convinced myself that maybe the reason I've been complaining about how hot it's been the past day or two when everyone else says "nah, it's actually cool out" might be because I have this.

No headache or depression, though I'll probably suddenly develop at least the former now that I know it's a symptom. Hooray.

Guess I'd better go see a doctor, then.

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From: SantaRPG | #005
but seriously go see a doctor. Bring the tick.

Also bring The Tick

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I'd like to hear this long story about why you didn't take it off/out sooner.

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From: Ace_Killjoy | #010
It wasn't a Lone Star tick, right?

I didn't get a good look at it (it was on my back, and I needed someone to remove it for me), and thus I can neither confirm nor deny it was that kind of tick.

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:(

Get better.

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From: Ace_Killjoy | #010
It wasn't a Lone Star tick, right?

I didn't get a good look at it (it was on my back, and I needed someone to remove it for me), and thus I can neither confirm nor deny it was that kind of tick.

Well, as far as I know, it's just a theory that some doctor has.
I don't know if it would actually cause an allergy to meat.

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It didn't look like this did it?



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From: Emporer_Kazbar | #014
I'd like to hear this long story about why you didn't take it off/out sooner.
Earlier in the week, while I was visiting my dad, I scratched my back and there was a lump that hurt like hell. I reached back to feel it, and it felt strange, but I don't have eyes on the back of my head so I had no idea what it was. I ask my dad, who has poor vision and who always assumes nothing is ever wrong with anyone, if he could take a look and tell me what it looked like. This was a mistake, but hindsight is 20/20. He said it looked like it was just a scab and that I should leave it alone.

So I left it alone, despite increasing discomfort.

Finally, today I'm again over helping my parents out trying to set up this piece of crap BluRay player they got a few years ago and are only now trying to use (a quick search of the internet revealed that it's a faulty model and that everyone had returned it for a different model long ago, but that's a story for another time), and I scratch my back again, and I end up scratching the lump again and feeling the sharp pain, and so I get fed up and ask my dad to take another look and tell me what's going on back there (I mean I've had scabs before, and they don't usually hurt when you scratch them). He says it looks like it's still scabbed up, and my mother's comes over and says "Let me see... THAT'S NOT A SCAB, YOU STUPID ASS!" Cue the revelation that I've had a tick on my back for somewhere around half a week, and the subsequent removal.

Overall probably not an interesting story, but you asked, so yeah.

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From: YetAnothrShadow | #018
It didn't look like this did it?


That's definitely the one.

It even shouted Spoon when it was finally out.

That doesn't make me allergic to red meat, does it?

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I had a feeling someone would.

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damn dude that sucks. definitely see a doctor asap.

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That... is... gross.

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Guide to proper tick removal (for future reference):

Grab with tweezers gently
Pull perpendicular from the skin, (as in straight up)

This should stop the mouth parts being left inside the skin.

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From: LeonhartFour | #002

Go see a doctor.

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other guide to proper tick removal: fire.

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Dear Rad Link 5, you have Lyme disease. We miss you. Kevin is biting me. Come back soon. Here's a drawing of a spirokeet.
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From: Whiskey_Nick | Posted: 6/27/2012 7:45:46 AM | #028

Dear Rad Link 5, you have Lyme disease. We miss you. Kevin is biting me. Come back soon. Here's a drawing of a spirokeet.
Love Ralph

reminds me of a REmake note

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You just have radiation poisoning. Go find doctor Conner so you can properly handle your new tick powers.

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How big was the tick?

If it wasn't really small, you don't have lyme disease.

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be a man and self-medicate

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Time to amputate.

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Holy F***

Oh and at first i read this as a termite and was like "uhhh"

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I read tick as "dick" and that made the topic title much more interesting

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