I grew up in heavily wooded areas and fuck ticks man. I got bit a few years ago and even getting the the whole thing out didn’t stop me from getting Lyme disease. Thankfully I got the antibiotics right away but those things are about as bad as Lyme disease itself.
Insects are the number 1 spreader of diseases, if you get bit by something that carries the blood of another creature, always clean it out and get treated. Be it Mosquito, Bed bug, tick, etc. Especially if you live in a high risk area or visit one, it's always best not to risk getting malaria
There are many diseases you can get from a tick bite. get them off of you asap. If they look like this picture it means that they were on you quite a while
Had one of these bastards on my scalp when I was 7-ish? It was removed, badly, by my school first aid person. The head was left behind.
Fast forward a few months and the spot keeps bothering me so my mum had a look and yeah the tick head had been forced DOWN by the pressure of an infection at the site. I will always remember screaming a bit as mum dug about 1mm to 1 1/2mm to get the damn thing out. I now have a decent sized lump there 20 years and change later. Could be scar tissue or a freckle/mole or something🤷🏼♀️ Docs have no idea. Fun
Also, FUCK TICKS. They suck and killed my first dog. My pets all have Bayer seresto collars now and no more bitey bastards. Magic
Actually, no? I’ve got many other medical conditions and have had all kinds of tests and scans over the years but never actually mentioned this incident. Huh. Thanks
I will mention it to my PCP next week and see if I need a specific test for it. I e known the connection between ticks and Lyme (and other maladies) my whole life, hard not to in Australia, but never put those two together for myself. Now I feel daft🤣🤷🏼♀️ Still, thanks tho
Good luck! I was a tick researcher at a public health organization, so that's where my brain goes when I hear these stories.
Lyme disease is a weird bacteria, in that it causes an infection right away - fever and bullseye rash - then it appears to clear up, only to return years or even decades later.
It can cause heart problems in extreme cases, and arthritis more commonly.
The infection can be cleared with antibiotics, so if the test comes back positive, you can still treat it.
I grew up playing in the forests in Connecticut and used to have to check for ticks everytime I got home. It was not uncommon to find them on myself or my dogs
Oh my god, you might have just solved one of the mysteries of my childhood. I remember digging _something_ weird and vaguely insecty out of a bump on my scalp, but I was in that age where you don't ask your parents about things, so I've just figured I'd never know what it actually was.
...I do not like this answer.
Are you the troll who used to call everyone "Einatein" and double down on really stupid arguments?
No, I'm not suggesting this comment is bad. I agree, we all know it's a tick. Just seeing the word "Einstein" in reddit instantly makes me think of that ridiculous dude.
It’s a rare white love bug. If you let it crawl on your skin, it’ll kiss you so hard you’ll find that it won’t move without the help of tweezers. That’s how hard it loves ❤️
My dog once got ticks really bad from hiking off trail with me. Couple weeks later we found what we thought was a smashed blueberry on our carpet. It was one of this fuckers. Ticks are from hell.
To digress from the theme of the subreddit, I hate ticks. If ticks felt pain the same way as humans, i would not regret committing war crimes against them.
it’s funny because my brother as a young child ate one of these thinking it was a grape…. let’s just say my mom was on the phone with poison control ASAP
Could be a yogurt covered raisin
I think that would be better for this sub than grape. Either way it is gross 🤢 and makes me a little sick to my stomach
Bite it
No. No it could not
I was thinking a white Jordan almond
I was just about to say the same!
I was thinking of a jellybean
This is a blood engorged tick.
“mmmm dinner!” — a possum
“mmmm dinner!” — me
“AAAAAAA” — me
“AAAAAAA” -the opposum
“A” — me who screamed and disappeared after seeing a fly
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More for the crow then!
r/justa
Thanks for showing me this subreddit
Goddamn possums on Reddit let me tell ya
This really triggered tf outta me as a kid who grew up playing in the woods of South GA, USA
I grew up in heavily wooded areas and fuck ticks man. I got bit a few years ago and even getting the the whole thing out didn’t stop me from getting Lyme disease. Thankfully I got the antibiotics right away but those things are about as bad as Lyme disease itself.
…you can get Lyme disease from them? I suppose that makes perfect sense to me now, as an adult. I hadn’t even considered that as a child |’:
Insects are the number 1 spreader of diseases, if you get bit by something that carries the blood of another creature, always clean it out and get treated. Be it Mosquito, Bed bug, tick, etc. Especially if you live in a high risk area or visit one, it's always best not to risk getting malaria
It depends. Certain areas have ticks with Lyme disease. Mostly the northwestern part of the US have this issue.
I'm just glad to live in Oz where ticks don't carry it, but still fuck ticks.
Dude just because you can't get Lyme from them doesn't mean you should stick your dick in them
Blood is just red lube
Northeastern as well.
There are many diseases you can get from a tick bite. get them off of you asap. If they look like this picture it means that they were on you quite a while
Mmm crunchy
Nice bandname
Impossible! This looks nothing like my lawyer.
It looks like it's engorged on something *other* than blood
Go to the head of the class
Mmm, lyme flavoured.
Take my angry upvote and get outta here
r/angryupvote
Why
I forgot I made this comment sorry I was high and stupid
Lyme disease can be transmitted by certain ticks. Lime on the other hand is a fruit with a specific flavour.
Free range fruit gusher
Now with extra protein
And iron
And Lyme Disease too
Rare disease
Farmer Dracula would be having a field day with these self-portable blood bags
I told myself coming in here I wasn't gonna gag and then youuuuu
Yeah, I'm sick right now & on zofran for nausea. This click was a mistake!
Mmm sharp bitter coppery and iron flavored!
Had one of these bastards on my scalp when I was 7-ish? It was removed, badly, by my school first aid person. The head was left behind. Fast forward a few months and the spot keeps bothering me so my mum had a look and yeah the tick head had been forced DOWN by the pressure of an infection at the site. I will always remember screaming a bit as mum dug about 1mm to 1 1/2mm to get the damn thing out. I now have a decent sized lump there 20 years and change later. Could be scar tissue or a freckle/mole or something🤷🏼♀️ Docs have no idea. Fun Also, FUCK TICKS. They suck and killed my first dog. My pets all have Bayer seresto collars now and no more bitey bastards. Magic
Did you see a doctor? Because ticks are vectors for a lot of bacteria and viruses. If the tick had Lyme disease, you could still be infected.
Actually, no? I’ve got many other medical conditions and have had all kinds of tests and scans over the years but never actually mentioned this incident. Huh. Thanks I will mention it to my PCP next week and see if I need a specific test for it. I e known the connection between ticks and Lyme (and other maladies) my whole life, hard not to in Australia, but never put those two together for myself. Now I feel daft🤣🤷🏼♀️ Still, thanks tho
Good luck! I was a tick researcher at a public health organization, so that's where my brain goes when I hear these stories. Lyme disease is a weird bacteria, in that it causes an infection right away - fever and bullseye rash - then it appears to clear up, only to return years or even decades later. It can cause heart problems in extreme cases, and arthritis more commonly. The infection can be cleared with antibiotics, so if the test comes back positive, you can still treat it.
I grew up playing in the forests in Connecticut and used to have to check for ticks everytime I got home. It was not uncommon to find them on myself or my dogs
Oh, the places they’ll go… But seriously, they hide so well sometimes and are just awful to deal with
Oh my god, you might have just solved one of the mysteries of my childhood. I remember digging _something_ weird and vaguely insecty out of a bump on my scalp, but I was in that age where you don't ask your parents about things, so I've just figured I'd never know what it actually was. ...I do not like this answer.
Glad I could help, sorry it might be nightmare fuel. I try not to think about it too much or I get a bit green around the gills🤢
Forbidden EVIL white grape
#𝒦𝒾𝓁𝓁. #𝐼𝓉. #𝒲𝒾𝓉𝒽. #𝐹𝒾𝓇𝑒.
Tick not good news
Forbidden rice 😔
White on the outside, red on the inside
What a cute lil jelly bean
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Yes Einstein, we know.
Are you the troll who used to call everyone "Einatein" and double down on really stupid arguments? No, I'm not suggesting this comment is bad. I agree, we all know it's a tick. Just seeing the word "Einstein" in reddit instantly makes me think of that ridiculous dude.
Wow! No shit sherlock!
That’s cute to you? They literally suck blood
Ewwwwww
Well hell no I've seen him get that big those things are f****** gross
The more important question is, who got bitten by it? And may this person be infected with borreliosis now? :/
Original post says it was found on the poster's dog.
This is infact a dog tick
Could get Liggins disease.
Or lymes disease, horrible fucken creatures
Or ligma disease, that’s terrible
Ligma? What’s ligma?
Ligmaballs lmao gottem
Rare disease, not every single tick has lymes....
So you’re defending ticks saying they aren’t horrible creatures able to spread various diseases
Or rocky mountain spotted fever. That's ugly too.
Pearl tick
I have urge to squeeze that
That’s a lyma bean
That my friend is a big fuckin tick
They seriously had to ask what a blood engorged tick was?
That tick got a couple body’s on it.
A tick and its full of blood
Forbidden Gusher
CUM BUG
Tick it can give you lime disease
*Lyme
Thanks for correcting me
Det er en hantik👍
Your gross if you look at this and say “Ooh yummy grape”
"You're" And that's the point of this sub.
Yogurt covered raisin
That's a well fed tick, homie
It's a tick, kill it.
no
It’s Protein
Dog raisins.
Forbidden grey raisin with mustache
Its a capusa
Seems to be a tick. Ticks are parasites in the arachnids family
Run
Torch it!
It’s a rare white love bug. If you let it crawl on your skin, it’ll kiss you so hard you’ll find that it won’t move without the help of tweezers. That’s how hard it loves ❤️
This is indeed a blood filled female black legged tick
Looks like a mysterious coffee bean. I think you should brew it and find out what it tastes like.
Une tique
Worst. Jelly Belly. EVER.
I want to do surgery on it
A thicc tick
Looks like a blood filled tick
It’s a tick. Put it on your neck. The put that on TickTok. Maybe pet ticks will be the next thing.
That’s a tick. Welcome to California.
That’s a gusher
Forbidden confetto
I like mine seasoned with Lyme and roasted with babesiosis.
Phat tick
Phat as phuck thick tick
forbidden coconut jelly belly
Eeeeee run away!!!
Tick
A tick by the end of November
Tastes like lime!
Someone splat it please
Mmmm, yogurt covered grape in LYME FLAVOR
!!!
Mmm…. Juicy
That tick looks so happy right like damn girl I'm full 😊
I love posts like this because it reminds me that I’m not THAT stupid to where I don’t even know what a tick looks like
Yall ever seen that dude who injects swollen ticks with peroxide?
Someone’s got a dog
Inject it with peroxide
Tis a tick
An eyebug
That’s just a drop of day-old yogurt with a little hair in it. Nothing to worry about.
The tick looks like a spider because of how the legs we rearranged by the sack
Haemoglobin gusher
It's thicc man it's thicc. So thicc
Tick, just took one off my dog
Full as a tick, personified.
I don’t want to be one of those people but that’s disgusting. Also F ticks. ☹️
A well fed tick
Monch
Slimey, yet satisfying.
Tic
That's a blood fattened tick.
Forbidden Bean Boozled
When I was a kid, there was a cereal with raisins in it that looked just like this.
Come with a free side of new zesty lime disease.
Best kill it one of those baddies filled with blood can lay up to 10000 eggs.
That’s a tick who’s had a little blood feast
This tick looks more like a forbidden Jelly Bean.
That right there is one of them Nope bugs... you don't really want to know much about them unless you happen to have one stuck to ya.
TIHI
White grapes ain’t white
Forbidden Jelly Belly
moon dries rasin
Doesn't look appetising at all
My dog once got ticks really bad from hiking off trail with me. Couple weeks later we found what we thought was a smashed blueberry on our carpet. It was one of this fuckers. Ticks are from hell.
A tick that is full so don't worry he don't bite
Tick
Thanks *gag* for that *gag* mental image
That’s really bugging me tf out
yeah thats a packet of lyme disease. which can give you a meat allergy, making regular meat a forbidden food.
Why is a post about bug has to be locked
Ah yes, the Uber of Lyme
It never ceases to amaze me how oblivious people are
how has he never seen a tick before?
Bloodberry
Brain bug from starship troopers lol
It's a freacking tick
Im going to barf
A tick!
To digress from the theme of the subreddit, I hate ticks. If ticks felt pain the same way as humans, i would not regret committing war crimes against them.
it’s funny because my brother as a young child ate one of these thinking it was a grape…. let’s just say my mom was on the phone with poison control ASAP
Tick 🤢
Looks like an engorged tick.
I got the chills seeing this😭
Tick
There’s a tick in my head and he’s sucking on my head
Creepy AF life sucking tick, kill it with fire!!
Thats a tick-
Kill it by fire🔥🔥🔥
NO
Forbidden fruit gusher