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Lyme disease conference Dublin June 5

  • 22-04-2012 10:53am
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,907 ✭✭✭✭


    This is a relevant issue for all of us that enjoy the outdoors as the possibility of contact with Ticks carrying lyme disease is a real and present risk.
    Lyme disease can have very severe consequences if not treated correctly and I personally know a man who now has to use a mobility scooter to get around after contracting lyme disease and having it go undiagnosed for a period of time.
    I have no affiliation with this conference but I just thought I would bring it to the notice of the community here as many here would have found ticks on themselves or perhaps their dogs/kids etc.
    The Tuesday session is the relevant one for hunting/shooting people.
    http://www.ticktalkireland.org/lymeconference.html.
    Mods I hope this is OK to post?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 361 ✭✭transit260


    this is a serious concern of mine as I come across tons of them while shooting the ferral goats.Only last week I took photos of the inside leg of a goat,the ticks were everywhere on it and the rest of the body wasnt much better
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    Im going to have to get advice on this matter cause its a real issue with me.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,907 ✭✭✭✭CJhaughey


    I saw a hind that had been hit in a RTA and her ears were infested with Ticks.
    There must have been maybe 20 or more!
    They are everywhere, I have taken 2 off my dog in the last month or so.
    The O'Tom tick twisters are the business.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 629 ✭✭✭thelurcher


    Thanks for posting.

    The ticktalkireland site is well worth a read.

    Looking at the 73 symptoms though - who over 30 wouldn't have 4 or 5 of them at any one time.
    I'd be interested in what the experts think about whether those of us more at risk should go for tests - and if so how often.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 965 ✭✭✭lb1981


    I thought i had lymes 2 years ago ,i live near the Pheonix park so i would often bring the dog for a run around there between March and August to stay off club land .The routes i would go with the dog wouldnt be the normal well walked tracks,were i would go would be full of heavy gourse and heavy cover which ment i was ripping the ****e out of myself aswel.
    One of the days when i got home i was getting changed i noticed at tick on my hip so i pulled the ****er out with a twezzers, and checked the dog ,she was clean.
    The next day i woke up i was sick as a dog the area were the tick was ,was all red and swollen and i had a feaver and was holulicinating ,my whole body ached and i couldnt move in the bed ,i broke out with red spots all over me and i really thought i was dying i was that bad.
    My wife started googling the symptoms and the tick bite and all of it pointed to lymes , so she brought my up to the doctor ,i was a mess at this stage i had no energy i couldnt even walk without her help.
    So i went in and explained my symptoms and showed him the bite mark, he told me that lymes dosn't exceist in Ireland and that i had the flu and the bite was just a coincendence.
    I told him he was talking ****e and that to look up tick talk and that there were plenty of examples of it in our Country.
    My wife was paro about the tick so my clothes that i wore that day (deerhunter:mad:)all the other clothes in the wash basket with them , the duvet ,pillows and covers all got ****ed out.
    So the next day she got back on tick talk and seeked help and one of the girls on it recomended Dr Fry , he sits in a few different places but he is Irelands leading expert in Topical dieseses.
    We headed out to see him in Bray and he checked me over, he told me i hadnt got lymes , that i had tick bite feaver, when i pulled the tick out he spit venom back into the skin, so he priscribbed antibiotics and cream for the bite.After a week i started to get better but the tiredness and fatigue kept up for a couple of weeks, i still get that feeling every now and again.
    All together that one tick bite cost me about 2000 euro and months of feeling crap.


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