Lyme Diease

Waterfalls

I just wanted all of you to be aware of this when you are out walking your dogs and to check yourself as well as your pet afterwards for signs of ticks. A friend of mine has this, and I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy.
She has had such a fight to get diagnosed in this country, as they thought she had various other things. MS being one of them. and told it was just one of those things by another doctor, and that she as to just live with it. She ended up going to wales to get a diagnosis as that was the only doctor who had a clue about the disease in enough detail.

So please please please check yourselves and your pet. If you do get bitten, then try and see a doctor straight away

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-22468181

zaksmum

I did actually get a tick on myself from my dog when he was snuggled up to me. Noticed it next morning in the shower and the damn thing was well embedded.

We have a tick remover tool so got it out easy enough but I went straight to my doctor just in case.

He said he'd need to make a note of it as any future ailments may well be linked to it and a wrong diagnosis could be made if the incident with the tick was not documented.

Slinky

My neighbour got it a few weeks back, got bitten by a tick when she was doing some gardening. Fortunately the doctor picked up on it really quickly and she had the antibiotics. She's improving but still suffering stiffness and swollen joints, it's been a truly horrid experience. Has certainly made us more wary of having uncovered skin when down the bottom of our garden. She thinks she gets foxes in hers which she thought it may have come from.

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

Slinky wrote: »

My neighbour got it a few weeks back, got bitten by a tick when she was doing some gardening. Fortunately the doctor picked up on it really quickly and she had the antibiotics. She's improving but still suffering stiffness and swollen joints, it's been a truly horrid experience. Has certainly made us more wary of having uncovered skin when down the bottom of our garden. She thinks she gets foxes in hers which she thought it may have come from.

Or any other wild animal or bird.

atrixblue.-MFR-.

should also point out that if your walking your dog around farm land, or have a farm with a outdoor cat, eventhough the land maybe clean weils disease can be transmitted from animal to humans, the peak of diagnosis's are spring and autumn, and its cause is animal urine in water thats gets into the break in the skin,sore, cut etc or injested so remeber clean off your dogs paws, and clean your cats aswell when he/she comes home especially if you live around farm land.

ameliarate

I always get mine "frontlined" at the beginning of spring. I have had a tick on me - not nice - perhaps that's why I ache so much and I'm not getting old after all?