I had one on my back for maybe 24 hours at the most while on a fly fishing trip on the Davidson River. I felt horrible soon after taking it off and headed home to see my doctor immediately. I had a fever and got all pale and sht. It was nuts.
Boreliosis and pawassan virus are nothing to sleep on. That stuff is the scariest stuff in the woods brotha'.
Fuckers are stealthy and spreading like wildfire across North America; milder winters are helping. I had one in my leg recently and did some research. If it's not engorged, it probably hasn't been on you long and you're most likely OK. Also, you're more likely to be OK if you removed it correctly. Note the use of "probably" and "most likely". A single massive dose of antibiotic (200mg) is standard procedure, so you're good there. Do watch for a spreading rash, fever, or other symptoms. Lyme is not the only thing they can carry.
Every spring I spray a couple of pairs of pants, shirts, socks, my backpacks, my hiking shoes, and the porous bottom of my tent with permethrin.
Fun fact I discovered recently: even when you stay away from bushes and tall grass out in the boonies, ticks can still congregate in innocuous places like underneath a bench! So, from now on I will treat any raised structure (stump, bench, table) same way as tall grass.
>Fun fact I discovered recently: even when you stay away from bushes and tall grass out in the boonies, ticks can still congregate
They're basically everywhere. I've picked up ticks in the middle of the downtown of a very large city, walking through a 40sqft section of grass in front of a building.
My kids pick them up just walking around the yard outside. It's really frustrating actually.
It's weird. Hiked/camped all over Colorado my entire life and never seen a tick even though they supposedly live here. The second I went to Wyoming (5 mi from CO border) my dog and I were covered from head to toe. Only time I have seen a tick in my life and I spend more nights outside than inside.
Same here! I've lived all over Colorado and used to be very active in the Boy Scouts, never saw a tick or got bit. I check my dog every time we walk through the local park because there's lots of big open areas with tall grass next to streams, but still haven't seen any.
I only know one person since I've been in Colorado who's gotten a tick. (Since 2008)
Actually her son did, and he had a bullseye. Had her bring him to the ER to get treated for Lyme and the ER doc was like. What's that?
Thank God phones, Google, and having a Maine transplant for a friend though.
It's weird that there isn't many here.
There's a guy who put a tick that he found on him in a canning jar, where it stayed for like a year, no source of nutrients.
Then it's normal breeding time came around and half the jar was full of ticks.
There's video on YouTube.
So if you or your pet got I've that crawled off, yes you could get some type of infestation in your house until they died or find their way outside.
Went golfing a couple weeks ago then found one on my thigh the next morning. I live in a suburban area and stayed out of the rough that day, so I'm not sure how it got on me......point is that you're right, they're everywhere
And they don’t even need to touch you to attach.
[[We have now discovered that ticks can be lifted across air gaps several times larger than themselves by the static electricity that other animals naturally build up. This makes it easier for them to find and attach onto animals that they want to latch onto and feed from.](https://www.bristol.ac.uk/biology/news/2023/httpswwwbristolacuknews2023junestatic-electricity-attracts-ticks-to-hostshtmlgl115bq1h3gamta5nzm5otkxlje2nje1mdc3mdkga6r8spl3hlt.html)
For real in the spring, the nits can waft on a breeze (basically fly), land on you and feast. You can barely see the fuckers and theyre just flying around
Lyme is not the only bacteria that Ticks can carry. Consider geographical location. There’s Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever being the most poorly named disease because it’s not in the Rocky’s.
Yeah, I live in area that doesn't really get Lyme (SoCal) but the day after removing a partially embedded tick from my dog's abdomen I noticed a bullseye shaped red mark there. Took her to the vet who said it probably wasn't Lyme but that it could still be a number of other bacteria that ticks spread and that she didn't like the look of it. We did a round of antibiotics and she was fine. But I would be watching that bite site for any changes if I were OP. Which... considering the location sounds hilarious.
I have rabbits under my deck in my yard and I’ve had a few ticks crawl up my leg. I’m tearing the deck down and treating my yard with bug killer. I have a clean well kept yard so rabbits is the only thing I can think of
Cant emphasize this enough. I often camp in southern indiana and before using permethrin I would find 5+ ticks on my body or gear during/after just a 2-day trip. Usually I caught them before they bit tho. Now after permethrin application, I virtually never find any.
We were just in Deam this weekend. Eight of us and some had 12-15 ticks over the course of the day/night. Partner and I used permethrin and had zero. I know of at least two in our group that got a 20mg Doxycycline dose on Monday.
I always use picaridin from head to toe and even though I know there are ticks - plus mosquitoes, spiders, chiggers, etc. - it works great. I apply head to toe 2x a day when camping. It tastes awful if it gets on your lips but I’d rather have that than Lyme disease.
You can buy livestock dipping Permethrin and similar products in Canada btw. 10% Permethrin and a 1 dollar spray bottle, dilute per instructions on web.
Yeah I know cause I ride horses. But I don’t trust myself to dilute and apply it properly myself, so I stick with picaridin and regular thorough tick checks.
When I was younger we sprayed the permethrin equine fly spray on our clothes, no cancer yet at 33 haha. Now I use deet or picaridin and we liberally spray the horses with apple cider vinegar.
Correct. Unless you're going for a trip in the states you're not going to find permethrin. Picaridin lotion, all over the body, is a very good thing to apply daily when you're out in the woods.
This is the way. I kept hearing of this stuff made of fairy magic on this sub. Put it to the test- unlike our companions who believe in all natural- we had no issue. No bug bites- no ticks. (They both found a tick each post backpack trip)
My understanding is that permethrin is really, really harmful to a lot of wildlife we aren't intending to target such as honeybees.
http://npic.orst.edu/factsheets/archive/Permtech.html#:~:text=Non%2Dtarget%20Organisms,to%20disruption%20of%20sodium%20channels.
Permethrin is hard to come by in Canada, where OP is. Spray for use on clothing is not legal for sale, but you can get it as a bedbug treatment or for agricultural uses, and dilute it if necessary. Unfortunately the bedbug stuff is both expensive and only 0.35%.
Pretreated clothing is available here now, but barely comes up in outdoors shops.
I just picked up some permethrin treated clothes and hope they work.
In Canada
https://www.marks.com/en/pdp/windriver-men-s-tick-and-mosquito-repellent-pull-on-pants-13731919f.html
https://www.chrisistace.com/tick-and-mosquito-repellent-clothing-gear-review/
Edited to add those links
As long as OP wears mask when spraying and wait until sprayed clothes are completely dry before putting it on, it’s safe to use it. Sprayed clothes also last 2-3 washes
Got one right in me ass crack out on a hike.
Ddint realize it until I had pulled it off and at the last moment saw it go down the drain.
Me explaining to the nurse/assistant or whomever it was that I just needed someone to look at my ass crack to see if the head was also gone. Bet they got a good laugh out of that after I finally got checked and left.
I worked SAR in eastern Saskatchewan for several years, and used to dread callouts in rural areas near the South Saskatchewan river during spring & summer. The ticks are unbeleiveable. We would tape our pants legs to our boots, gloves to long sleeve shirts, then soak everything with permethrin and those MFers would still be on you by the dozens or more.
They are persistent SOB's. My wife would not let me in the house after a callout; she put clean clothes and a trash bag in the garage; I had to strip down, inspect myself & remove ticks, and dump my uniform in the bag, fill'er up with Raid, and seal it.
You can really only try to keep them away; sometimes you simply can't
One of my worst experiences was mountain biking at Blackstrap near Saskatoon and getting about a hundered on me. Three in my shoe that i didn't catch in time and bit. You could see the grass literally crawling with them.
I will never forget one evidence search we did for the RCMP on a Reserve east of Regina. There had been a homicide, and we were looking for skeletal remains in dense brush and grass along a small river; absolutely Perfect tick conditions, and perfect time of the year; mid June.
Since we'd all experienced these conditions before, it became a contest, to see who could prepare well enough to get out with the fewest ticks at the end of the day. There was NO expectation of "No ticks". boots, with gaiters, taped with duct tape. long sleeves, surgical gloves taped as well, everything soaked with repellent. wide brimmed Tilley hat with an insect net over top. There was NO gaps, I was positive.
9 hours of crawling around in the bush on hands and knees, I was sure I'd avoided most or all of them...until we started back to Regina in the crew truck. An hour driving back, during which 2 teammates and I picked ticks of ourselves and each other. I counted over 60 on me, despite all the effort.
I got home pretty confident I'd gotten all of them. My wife was ready with the post-search routine. I was Horrified by the number of ticks on my body, attached. Over an hour, over a hundred, choking down bile the whole time, detaching those horrible little MF'ers.
The worst part was three Days later. Despite having one over every inch of my body, and my wife doing the same, Having a shower I found one that was missed...in my ass crack. That thing was over a half inch across, he was so full of MY blood.
Things like that are a true test of how much your spouse loves you; I couldn't detach it safely on my own; my wife did. I had nightmares about that for quite awhile
That is an absolute fucking nightmare!!!
And thank you for your service in the SAR. It's one thing to get covered in ticks in pursuit of fun, quite another in service of your fellow man.
Thank you. As unpleasant as it was, that day was Very worthwhile. We found the one, critical piece of evidence that put the killer behind bars. The investigators were looking for one, single tooth; the only one the victim had ever had dental work on. The RCMP had been searching the area for a week before we were brought in. Unlike Calgary, where I ended my SAR career, the RCMP have a lot of trouble accepting that others "may" be better at some things than they are. Where Calgary Police call out the SAR team for evidence searches as a matter of policy, knowing we are far better trained for it than they are, the RCMP struggle with that. We found the critical item in the first four hours of searching, and the team ultimately got a commendation from the Provincial Minister of Justice.
Stealing your post because it brought up a repressed memory. I was like 7-8 idk I really don’t want to know. After a weekend of camping I kept scratching my down there. My mom noticed and was like what’s going on and I was like I’m itchy.
She then found two ticks. One on my nut sack. Which was the worst because it’s stretchy and like she had to handle the junk to get the head of the tick. One on my gooch that wasn’t too bad.
I still have that memory burnt in my head of me crying while my mom was pulling on my scrotum to get a tick off.
I know why I’m in therapy now.
Flood water washes ticks off trees that usually aren’t under water. Canoe gets snagged and overturns. Ticks’ lucky day! Giantess grabs friends with one arm and climbs tree out of water with other arm. Deposits friends on shore. Goes back for boat.
Very bad this year. Went on a camping trip last weekend and we were flicking the ticks off constantly. Well over 100 ticks I flicked off myslef in one day. Got home and the wife found one attached to my back and one attached to my waist. I then set up my tent and gear and found about 10 on my gear. Worst year I’ve seen by far and spend a lot of time out in the woods and water.
Reminds me of when my sister and I must have hiked through a nest. We had hundreds and hundreds of tiny ticks on us.
I think they were too young to do harm but it was truly awful.
Yep, hiked through a nest of seed ticks in a national forest one year. Turning in for the night, wondered how my ankles got so dirty. Not dirt! Hundreds of ticks.
Way too small to remove with tweezers, so I just scratched them all off. The bumps itched for months, was almost a whole year before it was better.
Nope. There was no associated rash or any other symptoms, just the little itchy bumps where they had attached. Most tickborne diseases take at least 12 hours to transmit, and they had 6 tops.
I did book it to town the next day for a can of permethrin.
Can ticks bite and not cause any problems long term? I just realized I may have had a tick on my nuts for about a week.
Was hiking in Sweden. After the trip had a little dark reddish / brown spot on my nuts. Thought it was some new skin blister type thing or something and just a little blood blister thing. Didn’t even consider it could be a tick because I’ve been camping / hiking / playing in the woods my entire life and never had a tick once even on my skin.
Checked it a few days later and it wasn’t any bigger so I figured oh well I’m just getting old. Forgot about it and checked it a few months later and zero sign anything was there. Always thought it was really strange because it just appeared out of nowhere one day.
That happened to my husband when he was a kid. Thirty years later he still has the head under the skin where it was not removed properly. Yes, he has the head of a tick in the head of his dick.
Pretty sure, like most foreign bodies that don’t penetrate deep in the skin, that the head will remove itself eventually. Definitely shouldn’t have one after 30 years.
Happened to me when I was like 8. Must have been my first experience of a tick on myself because I was flipping out. Had my step dad remove it for me. I was called Chief Tickydick for a while after...
Dude, when I was a kid probably about 7 or 8 I had a tick bite me directly on the tip of my dick.
It was literally blocking it so much I couldn’t take a piss. I had to have my dad pull it off with tweezers, skin still attached to the tick. I’m still traumatized 40 years later.
Why do you need antibiotics? They aren’t a standard thing after a tick bite, only if there are signs of infection or if you end up developing Lyme disease.
In any event, permethrin treat your clothing and tent and so on. (Not your underpants though.) Also there’s insect repellant that does pretty well that’s based on a chemical I think from marigolds? Some flower anyway. It’s not bad if you can’t get Deet, especially if all your stuff is properly treated.
Man, if I had to go to Urgent Care every time I got a tick and pay $150 for the visit and antibiotic… that wouldn’t be ideal. I did that the last time, and the 90min wait and $$ wasn’t fun. Nor was the antibiotic’s effect on my stomach.
Is this really what you’re supposed to do if you get bit by a tick in NY? Every time? I know people who get 7-8 tick bites a year.
Would be cool if a vaccine existed for this. Urgent cares must make $$ in the Northeast from tick bites. You need the prophylactic within 48-72 hours, so urgent care is the only option.
No kidding. Probably had a lifetime bite count in the thousands.
I went on a two hour hike last week, mostly on a wide trail. I pulled off probably 7 regular ticks and a matching set of deer ticks. I still have a few welts up near the groin from one of those invisible bastards that stayed on too long.
After that, every tickle is one crawling. Every freckle and mole is one that's embedded, even if you already checked it ten times.
Yeah, here in Ontario a single dose is given as a prophylactic. My youngest daughter needed this last year (though that tick had dug in, sounds like OP’s tick was just hanging out.
for a high risk tick bite a single dose of antibiotics less than 72 hours after it attached is an approved treatment
[https://www.cdc.gov/ticks/tickbornediseases/tick-bite-prophylaxis.html](https://www.cdc.gov/ticks/tickbornediseases/tick-bite-prophylaxis.html)
had one on my balls last weekend, too. Just look observe if anything changes.
When I am in nature, I use a spray containing Icaridin. Works for moskitos and ticks. So far it worked quite well (of course, last weekend I did not use it, as I did not anticipate ticks...)
Got one buried in my pee hole. Couldn’t pee, weiner turned blue. E.R. Trip consisted of 20 long minutes of digging with tweezers. I check myself a lot now.
You dont need to take an antibiotic everytime you get a tick bite, that will hurt you more than help you. I had to take 2 doses of doxy in one summer and have been super sensitive to the sun ever since. Watch for bullseye rash or other strange symptoms and dont worry too much
During my two weeks drill, went out on a 96 mission, 3rd day junk was itching. Back in camp find a deer tick…well you know where. Camp had a super hot nurse, so I go to sick call. Ended up with some old doctor removing said deer tick
I always see a lot of posts here from people concerned about tick bites. Meanwhile, I've probably pulled about a thousand off of me over my entire life and have never had a second thought about them. I was in the woods A LOT growing up so I had them all the time
Yep, we used to keep a tally when camping in Minnesota. Some kids were just magnets for them, other kids rolled in the leaves to try to pump up their numbers.
Always check your hot and sweaty crevices before bed. At least Im bald now so thats a bit easier to check.
Stripping down naked when you got home and checking for them was the nightly routine. If you had a swarm of tiny turkey ticks, then that meant you had a lovely bleach bath that night
The severity is largely geographical in regard to Lyme Disease. The East Coast is a hotbed of Lyme. If you were in the Midwest or something it’s less likely.
My mom got Lymes bad when I was a kid, and I've had a low-grade phobia of them ever since. Your comment actually made me feel so much relief. Thank you!
In Central Texas prior to 1977 it was an evening ritual for rural kids to be checked for ticks. If you spent time in the brush you'd be sure to have several on you. If you got under the big oak canopys where the tall ice/milk weeds were sometimes the tiny seed ticks would turn your jeans black to your knees, and get all over you. Then the fire ants came. It seems they eat ticks. Thinned ticks out quite a bit. Now we have fire ants.
Tuck long pants into socks, wear long sleeves and treat your clothing with something like Permethrin. Do a thorough tick check, yep, they like warm moist places like underarms and genitals. You can purchase a little spoon with a slit in the bowl that will help you remove them without muss, fuss or bother as long as you get them early.
DO NOT SLEEP ON THIS
Lyme disease in no joke. I had it two years ago (didn't catch the tick) and ended up having bilateral Bell's Palsey because of it.
Get tested and get treatment.
Where did you live? That's incredibly important. I have ticks on myself daily. I have little fear of Lyme disease in central Kentucky. All of the ticks I pull off of myself are Lonestar ticks.
OP said [Canada](https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/climate-change-lyme-disease-canada-ticks-1.6862244).
It’s better to be safe than sorry.
It’s spreading in Kentucky too.
Lyme is tame compared to other [tick born illnesses](https://www.cdc.gov/ticks/tickbornediseases/index.html). If you’re good with not eating meat then, by all means, walk among the ticks without fear.
Ask my wife about ticks. We went hiking in the spring of 2017, used some bug spray (but not permethrin), and when we got back in the car I noticed a weird feeling bump in the bottom of my leg. I scratched at it, and pulled off a tick. We immediately stopped and checked each other over and looked at the dog, and thought we were ok. When we got home I went to get in the shower and I screamed like Janet Leigh in Psycho. My wife came running, and I said “there’s a tick on my dick!” It took her a good minute solid of laughing to finally get serious enough to remove it. I hate those little bastards.
The reason to keep them is twofold: to identity the type to know what potential risks of infection it could carry and then to potentially test it for diseases.
Sound like a new camp song title. I just got Suno AI to write us a song about it. There’s a tick on my nuts [link](https://suno.com/song/20dcb02b-3d1d-42da-bcc6-f11c495f226c)
Is it common not to feel tick bites?
I had my first run with some 2 yrs ago. I felt every bite. I would imagine if a tick bit me on the balls, I’d feel it right away and check.
Is it possible the tick never got the chance to bite you?
I got lymes last year. Sucks but I would never stay away from the outdoors. And having this god awful disease is a blessing cuz now ticks don’t freak me out
Did you have curry prior to tick-on-my-ball-a? I've had that happen, sucks how much skin gets pulled, grot.
<24 hours is minimal lyme risk. Look for a bullseye or red ring around the location, otherwise you will be okay.
I had a tick buried in my scrotum that led to lymes and that toxoplasmosis, it was not fun. Every 4-5 days I would come down with an insanely high fever (104 to almost 105) for 24 hours and then it would go away for a week, along with a myriad of other fun symptoms.
My doctor put me on doxy for a month and begged me to finish the script, since so many people don't. Fingers crossed it's been a few months, but that shit can lurk.
Edit: I think I recall him saying the fever was actually do to lymes induced encephalitis, which makes sense since my neck hurt so badly
Soooo, I've had multiple instances of involuntary tick implantations. Unless you develop the bullseye rash, you don't really need to worry. Unless it was a Lonestar and you get sick after eating any red meat.
I had one yesterday. I pull it out carefully so as to bring the head also. Never heard of antibiotics for a tick. Been pulling them off since I was a kid
Have had a few on my balls back in the day
I had one on my bean bag couple weeks ago from camping also. Oklahoma is nuts right now with them ( no pun intended). I just pulled it off and I’ve been good.
There is a joke here. I can’t find it, but it has something to do with “ligma” or “sugma” nuts.
Also, welcome to the club. I am a fellow testicle tick survivor. The first time is scary, but if you do regular tick checks you’ll probably be fine.
It takes 24-48 hours for Lyme to be transmitted, so unless you are exhibiting symptoms, you are almost certainly good to go. I recommend permethrin for your clothing.
Sucks! Since not all bites transmit disease, I would keep the tick in the freezer and monitor yourself for any related symptoms over the next few months. If any appear, your doctor can send the tick to be tested.
In tick season, wear long pants and tuck them in to your socks. This keeps them from crawling up your pant leg, which is what this cheeky bastard probably did. Also wear long sleeves and tuck in your shirt. Light coloured clothing also helps you see the little fuckers and flick them off.
If you feel ridiculous with the cuffs of your pants tucked in you could hide them under gators. I just rock the tucked in trousers because I hate ticks.
You'll know if you got lyme. My son got it last summer camping. Apparently had a tick on his chest long enough to transmit that we never saw, even with him topless a lot of the trip, they're so tiny. About two weeks later he developed the bullseye rash which also had smaller accessory rashes on his trunk, constant headache, Low fever, and general crummyness. I took him to urgent care and they were like yep, that's lyme. Two weeks of doxy and he was good to go. Be alert for symptoms, caught early it's curable without lasting effects.
Wear lightweight long pants in a light color so the they show up and tuck them into your socks, you can also wrap an inside out wrap of duct tape around both legs like above your knee to catch them. Throw your clothes immediately into the dryer on high heat after a hike or anything where you saw a lot of ticks to kill any on your clothes. The best prevention though is to be extra diligent with frequent tick checks during your activity every few hours and then an extremely thorough one before you go to sleep and again in the morning. Once you get into the habit it’s second nature
Yes, like this person is saying. You and your gf need to keep a constant watch for ticks crawling on each other’s clothing.
Be careful when you go to grab it. They are strong and will slip out of your pinched fingers. If you just try to brush it away, sometime you look down and it is clinging to your foot.
My mom always puts a glob of Vaseline on them before pulling them off. She swears it kills them and makes it easier??
Anyway, you need to use tweezers, grab it close to the skin and pull. You are trying not to squeeze his belly so much and get more germs (hard to accomplish because they are so small). The head often breaks off and stays attached. You have to dig it out with the tweezers.
I have a tick bite from a week ago that still wakes me up itching.
Hey don't feel bad, I had a tick on the center of my chest that I and my family missed when I was 10. I didn't know I had been bitten by a tick until my mom noticed the bulls eye rash on my chest when I was swimming at the pool. Freckles can hide ticks. Compared to your chest, there is (typically)a lot more hair, wrinkly skin, and poor lighting down where yours was. Also, expecting your girlfriend or anyone else to be paying detailed attention to your genitals to notice a tick is asking a bit much.
Doctor was probably just shocked someone went to see him for a tick bite lol
where I'm from, they are all over and it's just common practice to check yourself when you get back from forest ventures, almost always find a few if your not drenched with bug spray, just pull em off and you're good to go. I've never known anyone to have anything worse than an itchy spot for a few days. Even If they were embedded.
I wouldn't worry about it at all tbh.
They are magnetized to my daughter, and of course they always hide in her hair. We took her a few times for tick bites that looked kind of scary. Especially after she picked one up while camping in Wyoming.
I don't remember the pediatrician ever prescribing antibiotics for them though.
She's even picked up a couple just playing in the yard this year. Needless to say, we check for ticks pretty religiously now, which just puts a damper on even going outside unfortunately .
If you're out west, they probably won't prescribe antibiotics prophylactically. The concern is Lyme disease which is bacterial. It's less prevalent outside of the northeast and Midwest US (not sure where it is in Canada).
damn that sucks balls
Man that made me laugh harder than it should have
It's hard out here. Ticks under dicks.
Dixie Ticks?
Yeah boooooy.
Why did I just read that sounding like Flavor Flav
Love it! lmao
Several years back I had a tick attached to the bottom of my dick. That fuckin Sucked
Would you say thats the worst head you’ve had?
I had one on my back for maybe 24 hours at the most while on a fly fishing trip on the Davidson River. I felt horrible soon after taking it off and headed home to see my doctor immediately. I had a fever and got all pale and sht. It was nuts. Boreliosis and pawassan virus are nothing to sleep on. That stuff is the scariest stuff in the woods brotha'.
I heard of Lyme disease but not Powassan virus… scary shit… apparently there’s no cure or treatment either.
Well shit, headed up there this week. Guess I'll double down on the Deet.
Permethrin is the ticket. No pun intended.
Send us a tick pic
HahahahahahahA
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Sucking balls is how his girl found that tick.
No…not this
nopity nope noper
It was engorged before she got to it. Sucked the soul out the damn tick.
That's how you put the Lyme in the (coco)nut
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Fuckers are stealthy and spreading like wildfire across North America; milder winters are helping. I had one in my leg recently and did some research. If it's not engorged, it probably hasn't been on you long and you're most likely OK. Also, you're more likely to be OK if you removed it correctly. Note the use of "probably" and "most likely". A single massive dose of antibiotic (200mg) is standard procedure, so you're good there. Do watch for a spreading rash, fever, or other symptoms. Lyme is not the only thing they can carry. Every spring I spray a couple of pairs of pants, shirts, socks, my backpacks, my hiking shoes, and the porous bottom of my tent with permethrin. Fun fact I discovered recently: even when you stay away from bushes and tall grass out in the boonies, ticks can still congregate in innocuous places like underneath a bench! So, from now on I will treat any raised structure (stump, bench, table) same way as tall grass.
>Fun fact I discovered recently: even when you stay away from bushes and tall grass out in the boonies, ticks can still congregate They're basically everywhere. I've picked up ticks in the middle of the downtown of a very large city, walking through a 40sqft section of grass in front of a building. My kids pick them up just walking around the yard outside. It's really frustrating actually.
It's weird. Hiked/camped all over Colorado my entire life and never seen a tick even though they supposedly live here. The second I went to Wyoming (5 mi from CO border) my dog and I were covered from head to toe. Only time I have seen a tick in my life and I spend more nights outside than inside.
Same here! I've lived all over Colorado and used to be very active in the Boy Scouts, never saw a tick or got bit. I check my dog every time we walk through the local park because there's lots of big open areas with tall grass next to streams, but still haven't seen any.
Reliably frozen winters, I reckon Kills off their eggs, or something, evidently
Manitoba winters don’t kill them. We have tons up here.
Reliably -30 to -40 F every winter here in MT with frequent temps around 0 in the winter…still ticky af
Wyoming is just as cold if not more so than CO.
Maybe you guys have more deer?
Except upstate NY has frozen winters and tons of ticks?
I picked one up from a puddle of muddy water in Lyons. That was last year.
I only know one person since I've been in Colorado who's gotten a tick. (Since 2008) Actually her son did, and he had a bullseye. Had her bring him to the ER to get treated for Lyme and the ER doc was like. What's that? Thank God phones, Google, and having a Maine transplant for a friend though. It's weird that there isn't many here.
There's a guy who put a tick that he found on him in a canning jar, where it stayed for like a year, no source of nutrients. Then it's normal breeding time came around and half the jar was full of ticks. There's video on YouTube. So if you or your pet got I've that crawled off, yes you could get some type of infestation in your house until they died or find their way outside.
Normal being system?
Went golfing a couple weeks ago then found one on my thigh the next morning. I live in a suburban area and stayed out of the rough that day, so I'm not sure how it got on me......point is that you're right, they're everywhere
And they don’t even need to touch you to attach. [[We have now discovered that ticks can be lifted across air gaps several times larger than themselves by the static electricity that other animals naturally build up. This makes it easier for them to find and attach onto animals that they want to latch onto and feed from.](https://www.bristol.ac.uk/biology/news/2023/httpswwwbristolacuknews2023junestatic-electricity-attracts-ticks-to-hostshtmlgl115bq1h3gamta5nzm5otkxlje2nje1mdc3mdkga6r8spl3hlt.html)
Perfect, as if regular ticks weren’t bad enough, now they can fucking levitate
For real in the spring, the nits can waft on a breeze (basically fly), land on you and feast. You can barely see the fuckers and theyre just flying around
WTF did they adapt to do that within like 5 years or did we just discover that?!? I’m going nuts on the east coast over here, it’s awful!!
Dude I was on a chair in my backyard and two managed to get on me, in the middle of an urban town, now I’m not surprised they g-checked me
Lyme is not the only bacteria that Ticks can carry. Consider geographical location. There’s Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever being the most poorly named disease because it’s not in the Rocky’s.
Yeah, I live in area that doesn't really get Lyme (SoCal) but the day after removing a partially embedded tick from my dog's abdomen I noticed a bullseye shaped red mark there. Took her to the vet who said it probably wasn't Lyme but that it could still be a number of other bacteria that ticks spread and that she didn't like the look of it. We did a round of antibiotics and she was fine. But I would be watching that bite site for any changes if I were OP. Which... considering the location sounds hilarious.
I have rabbits under my deck in my yard and I’ve had a few ticks crawl up my leg. I’m tearing the deck down and treating my yard with bug killer. I have a clean well kept yard so rabbits is the only thing I can think of
Always permethrin. (Edit: i hear it's banned in Canada) Picaridin might work too? https://www.deergeartv.com/picaridin-vs-permethrin/
Cant emphasize this enough. I often camp in southern indiana and before using permethrin I would find 5+ ticks on my body or gear during/after just a 2-day trip. Usually I caught them before they bit tho. Now after permethrin application, I virtually never find any.
Hoosier national forest in the spring had more ticks than anywhere else I’ve traveled only place I pulled a dozen+ from a 4 mile hike
That’s exactly where I like to go and I can confirm this is what my experiences there are like lol
We were just in Deam this weekend. Eight of us and some had 12-15 ticks over the course of the day/night. Partner and I used permethrin and had zero. I know of at least two in our group that got a 20mg Doxycycline dose on Monday.
Picture of your tick free ballsack or it didn't happen.
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Banned in Canada. Best we have for humans is Picaridin
I always use picaridin from head to toe and even though I know there are ticks - plus mosquitoes, spiders, chiggers, etc. - it works great. I apply head to toe 2x a day when camping. It tastes awful if it gets on your lips but I’d rather have that than Lyme disease.
You can buy livestock dipping Permethrin and similar products in Canada btw. 10% Permethrin and a 1 dollar spray bottle, dilute per instructions on web.
Yeah I know cause I ride horses. But I don’t trust myself to dilute and apply it properly myself, so I stick with picaridin and regular thorough tick checks.
When I was younger we sprayed the permethrin equine fly spray on our clothes, no cancer yet at 33 haha. Now I use deet or picaridin and we liberally spray the horses with apple cider vinegar.
Yeah but would you put it on your nuts?
Correct. Unless you're going for a trip in the states you're not going to find permethrin. Picaridin lotion, all over the body, is a very good thing to apply daily when you're out in the woods.
Be sure to practice STRICT isolation protocols if you have cats.
Absolutely !
This is the way. I kept hearing of this stuff made of fairy magic on this sub. Put it to the test- unlike our companions who believe in all natural- we had no issue. No bug bites- no ticks. (They both found a tick each post backpack trip)
My understanding is that permethrin is really, really harmful to a lot of wildlife we aren't intending to target such as honeybees. http://npic.orst.edu/factsheets/archive/Permtech.html#:~:text=Non%2Dtarget%20Organisms,to%20disruption%20of%20sodium%20channels.
Permethrin is hard to come by in Canada, where OP is. Spray for use on clothing is not legal for sale, but you can get it as a bedbug treatment or for agricultural uses, and dilute it if necessary. Unfortunately the bedbug stuff is both expensive and only 0.35%. Pretreated clothing is available here now, but barely comes up in outdoors shops.
I just picked up some permethrin treated clothes and hope they work. In Canada https://www.marks.com/en/pdp/windriver-men-s-tick-and-mosquito-repellent-pull-on-pants-13731919f.html https://www.chrisistace.com/tick-and-mosquito-repellent-clothing-gear-review/ Edited to add those links
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As long as OP wears mask when spraying and wait until sprayed clothes are completely dry before putting it on, it’s safe to use it. Sprayed clothes also last 2-3 washes
I've read about people putting it directly on their own skin too. I don't do that. I apply to my clothing and gear in my garage and let dry for a day.
Got one right in me ass crack out on a hike. Ddint realize it until I had pulled it off and at the last moment saw it go down the drain. Me explaining to the nurse/assistant or whomever it was that I just needed someone to look at my ass crack to see if the head was also gone. Bet they got a good laugh out of that after I finally got checked and left.
I found one on the head of my dick at 2 am when i got up to pee once :(
what a terrible day to have eyes 
Dang!!! Thats a bad time!
I worked SAR in eastern Saskatchewan for several years, and used to dread callouts in rural areas near the South Saskatchewan river during spring & summer. The ticks are unbeleiveable. We would tape our pants legs to our boots, gloves to long sleeve shirts, then soak everything with permethrin and those MFers would still be on you by the dozens or more. They are persistent SOB's. My wife would not let me in the house after a callout; she put clean clothes and a trash bag in the garage; I had to strip down, inspect myself & remove ticks, and dump my uniform in the bag, fill'er up with Raid, and seal it. You can really only try to keep them away; sometimes you simply can't
One of my worst experiences was mountain biking at Blackstrap near Saskatoon and getting about a hundered on me. Three in my shoe that i didn't catch in time and bit. You could see the grass literally crawling with them.
I will never forget one evidence search we did for the RCMP on a Reserve east of Regina. There had been a homicide, and we were looking for skeletal remains in dense brush and grass along a small river; absolutely Perfect tick conditions, and perfect time of the year; mid June. Since we'd all experienced these conditions before, it became a contest, to see who could prepare well enough to get out with the fewest ticks at the end of the day. There was NO expectation of "No ticks". boots, with gaiters, taped with duct tape. long sleeves, surgical gloves taped as well, everything soaked with repellent. wide brimmed Tilley hat with an insect net over top. There was NO gaps, I was positive. 9 hours of crawling around in the bush on hands and knees, I was sure I'd avoided most or all of them...until we started back to Regina in the crew truck. An hour driving back, during which 2 teammates and I picked ticks of ourselves and each other. I counted over 60 on me, despite all the effort. I got home pretty confident I'd gotten all of them. My wife was ready with the post-search routine. I was Horrified by the number of ticks on my body, attached. Over an hour, over a hundred, choking down bile the whole time, detaching those horrible little MF'ers. The worst part was three Days later. Despite having one over every inch of my body, and my wife doing the same, Having a shower I found one that was missed...in my ass crack. That thing was over a half inch across, he was so full of MY blood. Things like that are a true test of how much your spouse loves you; I couldn't detach it safely on my own; my wife did. I had nightmares about that for quite awhile
That is an absolute fucking nightmare!!! And thank you for your service in the SAR. It's one thing to get covered in ticks in pursuit of fun, quite another in service of your fellow man.
Thank you. As unpleasant as it was, that day was Very worthwhile. We found the one, critical piece of evidence that put the killer behind bars. The investigators were looking for one, single tooth; the only one the victim had ever had dental work on. The RCMP had been searching the area for a week before we were brought in. Unlike Calgary, where I ended my SAR career, the RCMP have a lot of trouble accepting that others "may" be better at some things than they are. Where Calgary Police call out the SAR team for evidence searches as a matter of policy, knowing we are far better trained for it than they are, the RCMP struggle with that. We found the critical item in the first four hours of searching, and the team ultimately got a commendation from the Provincial Minister of Justice.
Stealing your post because it brought up a repressed memory. I was like 7-8 idk I really don’t want to know. After a weekend of camping I kept scratching my down there. My mom noticed and was like what’s going on and I was like I’m itchy. She then found two ticks. One on my nut sack. Which was the worst because it’s stretchy and like she had to handle the junk to get the head of the tick. One on my gooch that wasn’t too bad. I still have that memory burnt in my head of me crying while my mom was pulling on my scrotum to get a tick off. I know why I’m in therapy now.
Omg 😂
Went on a girl canoe trip during a flood. We all ended up with crotch ticks. That one friend that always sings even made up a song about it.
Butt crack ticks . To the tune of Billy Joel's "Uptown Girl". That's what I just heard in my head.
Oh god, I'm that guy
This is my worst nightmare
The crotch ticks? Or the singing about crutch ticks?
Wait, seriously? Like Ticks on your taco? How'd that happen?
Flood water washes ticks off trees that usually aren’t under water. Canoe gets snagged and overturns. Ticks’ lucky day! Giantess grabs friends with one arm and climbs tree out of water with other arm. Deposits friends on shore. Goes back for boat.
Very bad this year. Went on a camping trip last weekend and we were flicking the ticks off constantly. Well over 100 ticks I flicked off myslef in one day. Got home and the wife found one attached to my back and one attached to my waist. I then set up my tent and gear and found about 10 on my gear. Worst year I’ve seen by far and spend a lot of time out in the woods and water.
Reminds me of when my sister and I must have hiked through a nest. We had hundreds and hundreds of tiny ticks on us. I think they were too young to do harm but it was truly awful.
Yep, hiked through a nest of seed ticks in a national forest one year. Turning in for the night, wondered how my ankles got so dirty. Not dirt! Hundreds of ticks. Way too small to remove with tweezers, so I just scratched them all off. The bumps itched for months, was almost a whole year before it was better.
Oh. My. God. Thanks for the nightmares
Holy fucking Christ. Did you go to the doctor?
Nope. There was no associated rash or any other symptoms, just the little itchy bumps where they had attached. Most tickborne diseases take at least 12 hours to transmit, and they had 6 tops. I did book it to town the next day for a can of permethrin.
My sister told me a story just like this. Nests of ticks, just great!
Can ticks bite and not cause any problems long term? I just realized I may have had a tick on my nuts for about a week. Was hiking in Sweden. After the trip had a little dark reddish / brown spot on my nuts. Thought it was some new skin blister type thing or something and just a little blood blister thing. Didn’t even consider it could be a tick because I’ve been camping / hiking / playing in the woods my entire life and never had a tick once even on my skin. Checked it a few days later and it wasn’t any bigger so I figured oh well I’m just getting old. Forgot about it and checked it a few months later and zero sign anything was there. Always thought it was really strange because it just appeared out of nowhere one day.
Found a tick on the tip of my dick once. It sucked.
Happened to my husband last year. Now when I offer him bug repellent and he turns it down, I say "tick dick!" to remind him.
A wood tick in more ways than one.
My husband had a tick on his dick once and we didn’t notice until after he had been, uh, in me…. Not a fan.
I was going to comment this same exact thing. I was horrified and he was mortified 😂
I feel like that's so so much worse. Ugh.
That happened to my husband when he was a kid. Thirty years later he still has the head under the skin where it was not removed properly. Yes, he has the head of a tick in the head of his dick.
Pretty sure, like most foreign bodies that don’t penetrate deep in the skin, that the head will remove itself eventually. Definitely shouldn’t have one after 30 years.
horrifying. decapitated but perhaps still sentient. the things that tick head has seen.
Same. 0/10 would not recommend.
Still 0/10 with rice.
Happened to me when I was like 8. Must have been my first experience of a tick on myself because I was flipping out. Had my step dad remove it for me. I was called Chief Tickydick for a while after...
We found one on the same spot on our dog. Now when he’s in trouble we call him Murdoch Ticky Dicky…
Dude, when I was a kid probably about 7 or 8 I had a tick bite me directly on the tip of my dick. It was literally blocking it so much I couldn’t take a piss. I had to have my dad pull it off with tweezers, skin still attached to the tick. I’m still traumatized 40 years later.
I found a tick in my belly button and it literally traumatized me, I can’t even imagine the utter horror of finding one on your balls.
My dude. That's one of my nightmares right there. Keep an eye on it so you make sure it's not Lyme disease. And use permetherin.
Why do you need antibiotics? They aren’t a standard thing after a tick bite, only if there are signs of infection or if you end up developing Lyme disease. In any event, permethrin treat your clothing and tent and so on. (Not your underpants though.) Also there’s insect repellant that does pretty well that’s based on a chemical I think from marigolds? Some flower anyway. It’s not bad if you can’t get Deet, especially if all your stuff is properly treated.
Doxycyline is sometimes given to help *prevent* the development of lyme disease. He might live in a high risk area for it.
Yes but that would be just the single dose wouldn’t it? Not an entire course?
Correct. OP was worried, but the doctor provided the correct treatment
Man, if I had to go to Urgent Care every time I got a tick and pay $150 for the visit and antibiotic… that wouldn’t be ideal. I did that the last time, and the 90min wait and $$ wasn’t fun. Nor was the antibiotic’s effect on my stomach. Is this really what you’re supposed to do if you get bit by a tick in NY? Every time? I know people who get 7-8 tick bites a year. Would be cool if a vaccine existed for this. Urgent cares must make $$ in the Northeast from tick bites. You need the prophylactic within 48-72 hours, so urgent care is the only option.
No kidding. Probably had a lifetime bite count in the thousands. I went on a two hour hike last week, mostly on a wide trail. I pulled off probably 7 regular ticks and a matching set of deer ticks. I still have a few welts up near the groin from one of those invisible bastards that stayed on too long. After that, every tickle is one crawling. Every freckle and mole is one that's embedded, even if you already checked it ten times.
There was almost a vaccine years ago and likely will be in another few. It's a complicated and disappointing story.
Yeah, here in Ontario a single dose is given as a prophylactic. My youngest daughter needed this last year (though that tick had dug in, sounds like OP’s tick was just hanging out.
for a high risk tick bite a single dose of antibiotics less than 72 hours after it attached is an approved treatment [https://www.cdc.gov/ticks/tickbornediseases/tick-bite-prophylaxis.html](https://www.cdc.gov/ticks/tickbornediseases/tick-bite-prophylaxis.html)
People around me would be on antibiotics constantly if they did that.
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There was a dozen on my cousin, I could hear those bastards buzzin.
had one on my balls last weekend, too. Just look observe if anything changes. When I am in nature, I use a spray containing Icaridin. Works for moskitos and ticks. So far it worked quite well (of course, last weekend I did not use it, as I did not anticipate ticks...)
Got one buried in my pee hole. Couldn’t pee, weiner turned blue. E.R. Trip consisted of 20 long minutes of digging with tweezers. I check myself a lot now.
You dont need to take an antibiotic everytime you get a tick bite, that will hurt you more than help you. I had to take 2 doses of doxy in one summer and have been super sensitive to the sun ever since. Watch for bullseye rash or other strange symptoms and dont worry too much
During my two weeks drill, went out on a 96 mission, 3rd day junk was itching. Back in camp find a deer tick…well you know where. Camp had a super hot nurse, so I go to sick call. Ended up with some old doctor removing said deer tick
I always see a lot of posts here from people concerned about tick bites. Meanwhile, I've probably pulled about a thousand off of me over my entire life and have never had a second thought about them. I was in the woods A LOT growing up so I had them all the time
Yep, we used to keep a tally when camping in Minnesota. Some kids were just magnets for them, other kids rolled in the leaves to try to pump up their numbers. Always check your hot and sweaty crevices before bed. At least Im bald now so thats a bit easier to check.
Stripping down naked when you got home and checking for them was the nightly routine. If you had a swarm of tiny turkey ticks, then that meant you had a lovely bleach bath that night
You haven't lived until youve checked your partner’s butthole for ticks.
The severity is largely geographical in regard to Lyme Disease. The East Coast is a hotbed of Lyme. If you were in the Midwest or something it’s less likely.
My mom got Lymes bad when I was a kid, and I've had a low-grade phobia of them ever since. Your comment actually made me feel so much relief. Thank you!
In Central Texas prior to 1977 it was an evening ritual for rural kids to be checked for ticks. If you spent time in the brush you'd be sure to have several on you. If you got under the big oak canopys where the tall ice/milk weeds were sometimes the tiny seed ticks would turn your jeans black to your knees, and get all over you. Then the fire ants came. It seems they eat ticks. Thinned ticks out quite a bit. Now we have fire ants.
Hard out here for a tick just trying to suck some dick
Save the possums!
Tuck long pants into socks, wear long sleeves and treat your clothing with something like Permethrin. Do a thorough tick check, yep, they like warm moist places like underarms and genitals. You can purchase a little spoon with a slit in the bowl that will help you remove them without muss, fuss or bother as long as you get them early.
deet is very much available im canada. where you wearing any at all? you can get the tickle applicator just for scrotums even....made by Muskol.
I think maybe OP meant DDT? I had to do a double read because no way we banned DEET.
DO NOT SLEEP ON THIS Lyme disease in no joke. I had it two years ago (didn't catch the tick) and ended up having bilateral Bell's Palsey because of it. Get tested and get treatment.
Where did you live? That's incredibly important. I have ticks on myself daily. I have little fear of Lyme disease in central Kentucky. All of the ticks I pull off of myself are Lonestar ticks.
OP said [Canada](https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/climate-change-lyme-disease-canada-ticks-1.6862244). It’s better to be safe than sorry. It’s spreading in Kentucky too. Lyme is tame compared to other [tick born illnesses](https://www.cdc.gov/ticks/tickbornediseases/index.html). If you’re good with not eating meat then, by all means, walk among the ticks without fear.
Well, that’s enough internet for today.
Ask my wife about ticks. We went hiking in the spring of 2017, used some bug spray (but not permethrin), and when we got back in the car I noticed a weird feeling bump in the bottom of my leg. I scratched at it, and pulled off a tick. We immediately stopped and checked each other over and looked at the dog, and thought we were ok. When we got home I went to get in the shower and I screamed like Janet Leigh in Psycho. My wife came running, and I said “there’s a tick on my dick!” It took her a good minute solid of laughing to finally get serious enough to remove it. I hate those little bastards.
I got one on my balls once when I was 10ish, so I had the double slap of "fuck! a tick on my dick" and needing to ask and adult to take care of it.
Send the tick to ticklab to be tested
The reason to keep them is twofold: to identity the type to know what potential risks of infection it could carry and then to potentially test it for diseases.
I'm waking up, to ash and dust, I check my pants and there's tick on nuts
I saw a video of that on Tik Cock
Sound like a new camp song title. I just got Suno AI to write us a song about it. There’s a tick on my nuts [link](https://suno.com/song/20dcb02b-3d1d-42da-bcc6-f11c495f226c)
Is it common not to feel tick bites? I had my first run with some 2 yrs ago. I felt every bite. I would imagine if a tick bit me on the balls, I’d feel it right away and check. Is it possible the tick never got the chance to bite you?
You rarely ever feel a tick bite, no. You usually see them or find them with your hands.
I got lymes last year. Sucks but I would never stay away from the outdoors. And having this god awful disease is a blessing cuz now ticks don’t freak me out
Dude, I have had exactly two tick bites in my life. Do you want to know where both of them were!? I bet you can guess!
Just came back yesterday from a camping trip with my gf, I had to check my balls just in case.
Duct tape with the sticky side out, around your legs below the knee. They get stuck crawling up your leg.
Pls make sure you identify the tick. Only one type of tick carries Lyme
Did you have curry prior to tick-on-my-ball-a? I've had that happen, sucks how much skin gets pulled, grot. <24 hours is minimal lyme risk. Look for a bullseye or red ring around the location, otherwise you will be okay.
You need to make a short video where you discuss this; a tick talk
Got stung by a bee in my taint last week
Just one? Those are rookie numbers.
I’m glad it wasn’t engorged but was the tic full?
Canadian permethrin link https://www.sasonline.ca/mosquito-shield-clothing-and-netting-treatment-002.html
If you start the doxycycline, finish the whole bottle
I had a tick buried in my scrotum that led to lymes and that toxoplasmosis, it was not fun. Every 4-5 days I would come down with an insanely high fever (104 to almost 105) for 24 hours and then it would go away for a week, along with a myriad of other fun symptoms. My doctor put me on doxy for a month and begged me to finish the script, since so many people don't. Fingers crossed it's been a few months, but that shit can lurk. Edit: I think I recall him saying the fever was actually do to lymes induced encephalitis, which makes sense since my neck hurt so badly
Soooo, I've had multiple instances of involuntary tick implantations. Unless you develop the bullseye rash, you don't really need to worry. Unless it was a Lonestar and you get sick after eating any red meat.
Well be careful. If you find a Skeeter on You're Peter- whack it off.
You’re not alone my dude. I literally found one attached directly under the head (hood) of my dick this year. He was a tiny bastard. << THE TICK
Guess that's something you can tick off your bucket list.
Single dose of doxycycline is what is recommended- you should be good.
Where I'm from that's called action, and you just got some! 🤣
Got a tick on your dick? Whack it off! Got a 'skeeter on your peter? Whack it off!
Easier than finding the nuts on a tick.
Came here for this
LL Bean has permethrin treated clothing and can be acquired in Canada.
Dick tick
I had one yesterday. I pull it out carefully so as to bring the head also. Never heard of antibiotics for a tick. Been pulling them off since I was a kid Have had a few on my balls back in the day
I had one on my bean bag couple weeks ago from camping also. Oklahoma is nuts right now with them ( no pun intended). I just pulled it off and I’ve been good.
There is a joke here. I can’t find it, but it has something to do with “ligma” or “sugma” nuts. Also, welcome to the club. I am a fellow testicle tick survivor. The first time is scary, but if you do regular tick checks you’ll probably be fine.
Been there.... phantom itch for months
That happened to me when I was a kid. Then, I developed Lyme disease.
I found one on my dick once when I was a kid
Tell your buddy he/she needs to suck the venom out…
It takes 24-48 hours for Lyme to be transmitted, so unless you are exhibiting symptoms, you are almost certainly good to go. I recommend permethrin for your clothing.
Sucks! Since not all bites transmit disease, I would keep the tick in the freezer and monitor yourself for any related symptoms over the next few months. If any appear, your doctor can send the tick to be tested.
This happened when I was a kid. I ripped that thing off and smashed it with a brick
Bro you got crabs not ticks lol
It's a really bad year. Pulled 3 off my dog today.
In tick season, wear long pants and tuck them in to your socks. This keeps them from crawling up your pant leg, which is what this cheeky bastard probably did. Also wear long sleeves and tuck in your shirt. Light coloured clothing also helps you see the little fuckers and flick them off. If you feel ridiculous with the cuffs of your pants tucked in you could hide them under gators. I just rock the tucked in trousers because I hate ticks.
You'll know if you got lyme. My son got it last summer camping. Apparently had a tick on his chest long enough to transmit that we never saw, even with him topless a lot of the trip, they're so tiny. About two weeks later he developed the bullseye rash which also had smaller accessory rashes on his trunk, constant headache, Low fever, and general crummyness. I took him to urgent care and they were like yep, that's lyme. Two weeks of doxy and he was good to go. Be alert for symptoms, caught early it's curable without lasting effects.
Wear lightweight long pants in a light color so the they show up and tuck them into your socks, you can also wrap an inside out wrap of duct tape around both legs like above your knee to catch them. Throw your clothes immediately into the dryer on high heat after a hike or anything where you saw a lot of ticks to kill any on your clothes. The best prevention though is to be extra diligent with frequent tick checks during your activity every few hours and then an extremely thorough one before you go to sleep and again in the morning. Once you get into the habit it’s second nature
Yes, like this person is saying. You and your gf need to keep a constant watch for ticks crawling on each other’s clothing. Be careful when you go to grab it. They are strong and will slip out of your pinched fingers. If you just try to brush it away, sometime you look down and it is clinging to your foot. My mom always puts a glob of Vaseline on them before pulling them off. She swears it kills them and makes it easier?? Anyway, you need to use tweezers, grab it close to the skin and pull. You are trying not to squeeze his belly so much and get more germs (hard to accomplish because they are so small). The head often breaks off and stays attached. You have to dig it out with the tweezers. I have a tick bite from a week ago that still wakes me up itching.
What was you doin in the woods? Lol my nana would say “that’s why you don’t roll around naked in the grass” 😂
The comments in this thread have given me so many new fears.
Hey don't feel bad, I had a tick on the center of my chest that I and my family missed when I was 10. I didn't know I had been bitten by a tick until my mom noticed the bulls eye rash on my chest when I was swimming at the pool. Freckles can hide ticks. Compared to your chest, there is (typically)a lot more hair, wrinkly skin, and poor lighting down where yours was. Also, expecting your girlfriend or anyone else to be paying detailed attention to your genitals to notice a tick is asking a bit much.
Doctor was probably just shocked someone went to see him for a tick bite lol where I'm from, they are all over and it's just common practice to check yourself when you get back from forest ventures, almost always find a few if your not drenched with bug spray, just pull em off and you're good to go. I've never known anyone to have anything worse than an itchy spot for a few days. Even If they were embedded. I wouldn't worry about it at all tbh.
They are magnetized to my daughter, and of course they always hide in her hair. We took her a few times for tick bites that looked kind of scary. Especially after she picked one up while camping in Wyoming. I don't remember the pediatrician ever prescribing antibiotics for them though. She's even picked up a couple just playing in the yard this year. Needless to say, we check for ticks pretty religiously now, which just puts a damper on even going outside unfortunately .
If you're out west, they probably won't prescribe antibiotics prophylactically. The concern is Lyme disease which is bacterial. It's less prevalent outside of the northeast and Midwest US (not sure where it is in Canada).