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POLISH INSECTS CAN RUIN YOUR LIFE.... [27]
Some of you may have noticed on another thread that i was asking some health related questions due to pain in my arm caused by an old racing injury , and more worrying , a painless lump that i found last night on the same arm....
Well , while looking for info on the net i made the connection between the lump , and the fact that two days ago i found i had been bitten by a deer tic , something that is common in forest areas....
I was sure i had removed to tic before it had passed onto me any of the nasty diseases that some tics can carry , but while looking for info on my mystery lump i found it was one of the symptoms of being bitten by a tic carrying lyme disease....
Lyme disease is a rather nasty thing , causes all kinds of unpleasant effects , and if not caught in the eary stages can go on to affect your central nervous system and cause mental problems as well as severe health probelms....
The problem is , that in the early stages it may not be possible to detect the disease in your blood , untill you begin to develop the antibodies to the disease , its a case of getting onto the antibiotics before the disease makes itself known....
I am kinda hoping that this is not what has caused my lump , as i don,t have the money to go seeing doctors about this , but its a bit scarey to think my life here could go rapidly down hill as the result of a bite from a tiny insect....
If you live in the forest areas , and especially if you have pets , have a read about deer tics , and what to do if you get bitten by one....
When wild camping in Russia i did get an injection to prevent one of the more serious diseases carried by tics , but not for this particular one...watch out folks.....
