Help! Ive been bitten by a tick

[TreasureVibe]

Hey all, today I found a tick on my upper wrist on my left arm and removed it with the tick remover in the image file attached to this post, I twisted it to the right per instructions of the guide that I video called (I live in an assisted living situation) and I kept the tick in a ziplock bag for testing. The website for the specific tick remover also says that it should be twisted to the right. Did I do this right? The head isn't in the skin anymore.

What signs should I look out for in regards to lyme and other diseases it could've transmitted? It's probably been on my wrist for either a day or a few hours. And what can I take preventively for lyme disease?

Thank you.

 

[TreasureVibe]

Bump!

 

[Ben.]

A red rash around the wound that looks like a ring is a clear sign. If that occurs you need to get to a doctor, preferably one specialised with lyme. If it is diagnosed and treated right away it should be fine usually.

Standard antibiotica used is Doxycyclin. Tho i do not want to advise taking it prophylactically, considering antibiotica can realy mess up a person. If it is Lyme or another tick born disease and it is acute you would notice it fairly quickly. Getting the tick tested is a good idea, but even if it had lyme or bartonella, it does not necessarily had to be transmitted.

For now, dont overobsess with it, people have been bitten by many ticks and they had nothing.
I would advise for now, check the wound regularly and see how it looks like and develops. If it is a ring or the wound does not heal/looks wierd/itch to much, go seek help.

Do things that are good for general health and immunity until you know/figure out more. Being on this forum for that long you probably know best what to do for yourself in that regard. I know you have alot of other stuff on your plate so i want to recommend to you to take care of yourself and dont let stress and the stuff with your girlfriend take the best of you.
The healthier you are, physically and mentally, the less likely stuff like this can do something to you in my opinion.

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Incase you get sick/positive, make sure to check out the following articles/responses and make sure the doctor you are working with has knowledge like this too, not just textbook approaches.

DONT READ THE LINKS UNTIL YOU KNOW MORE ... it will only make you obsess mentally to much, i put it here for future reference in case it is needed:

Lyme Protocols
Tick Borne Illnesses
Lyme Disease and the Brain
The Cowden Support Program

Since i went trough a lyme protocoll myself and having reserached it alot, i can tell you that the antibiotica treatment and/or biofilm disrupting could be more harmful than good. Its not just vaccines that are fishy, the medical world and the research with lyme is realy odd and theres companys/individuals supressing the advancement of treating people with that condition so take alot of the information there with a grain of salt.

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Employing w/e you can to be healthy in general is what i'd recommend, both with or without a active infection. Sleep, digestion, stress resilence, social life etc.

 

[S-VV]

Doxyxicline asap unless you have a damaged microbiome

 

[schultz]

What kind of tick? I get ticks on me all the time. Sometimes they manage to bite me (though I'm pretty good at feeling them crawling). I believe the black legged tick is the one that can carry lyme. The ones I usually pull off are dog ticks.

 

[yerrag]

I just diagnosed a friend yesterday of leishmanniasis, which is a virus from getting bitten by sand mites in pristine beaches.

He told me he had been prescribed and been taking febuxostat to lower his uric acid levels. I told him to give me his CBC blood test. He has high hemoglobin, high mean cell volume (MCV), low wbc, high monocytes, and high eosinophils. I suspected a parasitic virus, and asked if he has a cat or if he's been to the beach in the recent past. And he told me he was bitten by sand mites in a popular beach, Boracay, and it was a very painful experience that he can't forget.

There and then, I found the cause of his high uric acid. I told him I'll make him an alcohol extract of artemisis annua but it'll take two weeks for the extract to be fully steeped and ready.

These symptoms don't show up immediately as it takes time for the chronic viral infection and inflammation and oxidative stress to effect an increase in uric acid levels as an adaptive response, given the body has to increase antioxidant levels to counter the chronic oxidative stress condition.

A conventional doctor just deals with the symptom and gives him a uric acid-lowering drug, never bothering to find the root cause when it is so easy to. All I did was to examine a cheap blood test and ask some questions. This is what happens to people when they go see a conventional doctor.

The drug wil lower uric acid levels and reduce the body's needed antioxidant stores. Then the body will find another way to adapt and will resort to using albumin as an antioxidant. This will lower serum abumin and this will cause lower blood volume. Then blood pressure will have to increase to compensate for lower blood volume. Then the doctor will prescribe high blood pressure medication to normalize blood pressure. The body's tissues and organs then get less nutrition from blood, and organs slowly begin to degenerate. And down the road, the patients will have kidney, liver, and heart problems.

 

[Lejeboca]

probably, as S-VV said, some doxycycline now and I'd put a topical antobiotic on the bite too.

I personally just put topical for a few days and watch for ~10 days for any erythemas or other imflamations. Didn't get any erythemas yet from the ticks that came after THE FIRST, which did produce an erythema after 10 days, albeit a negative Western Blot followed. Erythema post tick bite seems to me the surest sign of lyme.

 

[Dr.Winston O'Boogie]

My opinions were posted in this thread, please keep in mind that my personal experience has left me a bit proactive when it comes to tick bites.

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So before ”Corona-season” is over, ”Tick-season” has already begun :arghh: A very short walk in the woods 1 week ago resulted in 3 (three!) tick bites for me. When I found the third one attached, I cried! 2 bites are healing fine, it seems, however the third one (the tick that was most likely...

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[TreasureVibe]

Thank you everyone for the replies, I called my GP because I had rheumatic pain in my right wrist and on my right jaw/cheek/face and a bit of a feverish feeling yesterday evening and some slight redness on my lower left arm but not at the biting site, but this could be due to all the coffee I've drank yesterday (I drank around 8 cups and I have a history of juvenile onset rheumatic arthritis) and the past use of high dose iodine and he prescribed me a one time dose of 200 mg doxycycline to be taken as fast as possible, the pharmacist told me to take it asap after a sandwich so I did. Is this enough for a short tick bite? In a lyme discord group they're recommending me to get cat's claw, astragalus and Japanese knotweed and perhaps if I want andrographis and take those daily for the prevention of any tick transmitted disease and saying that the one time dose of doxy isn't enough.

What should I do?

Thanks once again!!

 

[skuabird]

I learned a lot about ticks after moving to my current location as they kept attaching themselves to me and my dog. I am paranoid about lyme (one of my bfs has chronic), but I learned that the probability of disease contraction has to do with the tick expelling its insides. It does this if you remove it improperly by smooshing its body cavity (I like the tick twister way more than tweezers) OR if it is attached for longer. If you find it in hours or the first day, the likelihood is lower than if you find it days after.

The tick bite will be inflamed. Bullseye rash for lyme.

I use permathrin on my hiking clothes and shoes.

Maybe try deep breathing exercises, it'll help your stress about it as well as your body's own reaction.

 

[StephanF]

I know a woman who had chronic fatigue, not sure if that came from a tick bite. She got rid of it by taking ‘MMS’ (chlorine dioxide) drops. There is more about the various testimonials for a wide variety of illnesses that were successfully ‘treated’ with chlorine dioxide.

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[TreasureVibe]

Thank you for the replies guys, I'm feeling a lot better today, still some residue rheumatic pain in my right wrist and right heel. I can't order the MMS because they don't seem to take orders anymore the website says.

I ordered astragalus and andrographis capsules as a preventative for lyme.

 

[yerrag]

Thank you for the replies guys, I'm feeling a lot better today, still some residue rheumatic pain in my right wrist and right heel. I can't order the MMS because they don't seem to take orders anymore the website says.

I ordered astragalus and andrographis capsules as a preventative for lyme.

you can make your own CDS/MMS using directions from Andreas Kalcker's website CDS (Clo2)

Order the sodium chlorite from www.pforlife.com

 

[TreasureVibe]

you can make your own CDS/MMS using directions from Andreas Kalcker's website CDS (Clo2)

Order the sodium chlorite from www.pforlife.com

Thanks I'm receiving chlorine dioxide to make MMS soon.

I'm taking astragalus and andrographis for prevention for lyme now. The tick came in negative but the test is not reliable according to a lyme specialist.

 

[yerrag]

Thanks I'm receiving chlorine dioxide to make MMS soon.

I'm taking astragalus and andrographis for prevention for lyme now. The tick came in negative but the test is not reliable according to a lyme specialist.

Do you have links for using astragalus for Lyme? I wonder if it's helpful for visceral leishmaniasis? Asking for a friend who was bitten by sand flies.

 

[TreasureVibe]

Do you have links for using astragalus for Lyme? I wonder if it's helpful for visceral leishmaniasis? Asking for a friend who was bitten by sand flies.

I tried finding a website about it but I couldn't, it's herbalist Buhner that prescribed 3000 mg of astragalus for lyme prevention, you could Google Buhner protocol.

 

[yerrag]

I tried finding a website about it but I couldn't, it's herbalist Buhner that prescribed 3000 mg of astragalus for lyme prevention, you could Google Buhner protocol.

Thanks! I'll check it out.

 

[pushkin]

I was bitten by a tick in 2019. Nothing happened for 4 weeks and then the bullseye came. There was a small dark red mark in the middle to start with, then a ring came around it and started to spread out. My dr. was unsure it was a tick bite because the rash came such a long time after I had been bitten, she thought it was a spider, so no action taken, then she realised it was a tick and started me on antibiotics. By this time I had researched the Buhner Protocol and was taking Japanese knotweed and astragalus. The ring started to break up and disappear but I still took the antibiotics. I had the same symptoms on the side of my face 1 week into the antibiotics, which scared me but my dr. told me it was okay to just keep going with antibiotics which I took for 21 days in total (alongside s.boulardii to protect my gut lining).

I live in a tick area and so take 1000mg astragalus in the summer for precautions but I also am fastidious about checking myself after I have been out in the woods too. I would say that you should keep a very good eye on the area for the next few weeks - also anywhere else on your body, as the bullseye does not have to be on the actual tick bite, mine was not.

Stephen Harrod-Buhner has an in depth book on treating Lyme with herbs, he is a very good source for all things anti-viral.