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dr. send
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willko
Post Re: Ticks!
on: June 22, 2007, 13:11

Hey Trent, there’s an article in this week’s Georgia Straight about lyme disease that you should check out. Apparently if you save the tick after you pull it out you can send it to the BC Center for Disease Control and they’ll test it for you.

kinnikinik
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kinnikinik
Post Re: Ticks!
on: June 25, 2007, 16:49

Don’t forget about rocky mountain spotted fever,seems worse than lyme’s.

trent
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Trent
Post Re: Ticks!
on: June 25, 2007, 22:29

Will, I saw the article… If only I had kept the tick, I could have sent it in.  Lyme disease is actually pretty rare in BC (only 20 cases in the last decade or so).  It’s been 11 days now, and there have been no symptoms (well, I have had a headache, but I’ve also been cutting down my coffee intake, so I’m pretty sure that has something to so with it…).

Climb soon?  I’m going to start training at UBC, I think.  ANd I need to be motivated, or this year will be a writeoff.

alxj
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alxj
Post Re: Ticks!
on: January 4, 2008, 14:54

Brings back memories of April and a week long trip to City of Rocks with my bro. After a 12 hr return trip where we hit 2 elk and did in my Subaru…I hit the tub and after a few minute soak felt a little itch in the groin region.

To my alarm I had a tick implanted (as anyone who has experienced their pinsers) on my sack.

A nightmare to remember.

stone_mason
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stone_mason
Post Re: Ticks!
on: January 6, 2008, 20:26

I had one once, on my 25th bday. I actually had a big red ring around it - a sign of lime disease. I was freaking, luckily I worked at the Whistler Health Care Centre and got a hold of Dr. Walman before he left (10pm) . He removed it, sent it in for testing and gave me harsh antibiotics the same kind you would take if you were pricked by a needle.

6 years later, no lime disease which is EXTREMELY debilitating. Don’t take ticks lightly. Although I did not get lime disease I did have a symptom so had I not noticed the ring (obvious red), and it swept over my entire body, I may very well have contracting the disease.

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Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of Autumn.”

John Muir

partridge
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partridge
Post Re: Ticks!
on: January 8, 2008, 23:50

I have had many. I went to the hospital once in Calgary to get one removed and the doctors seemed humored I would waste their time. I was told there is no Lyme Disease in the Rockies unlike other parts of Canada and the USA. One time we had 30+ on us between the two of us climbing a route- one was on pitch 5.
For an experiment, I let one burry on my scalp and after one week it bloated up real fat with blood and simply fell off. It was sore as expected but nothing more came of it.
Dumb I know.

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