Bug reminder!

Tis the season for ticks, ticks, and more ticks. Watch out for em, or, like me, you could become the proud new owner of Lyme disease! Trust me, you don't want any part of this fever. I got my meds, but the wait for them to kick in gets kinda long when you can barely sleep. Muscles are as stiff as can be. One hour you're freezing, and the next you're whole bed is soaked in sweat.

I guess being an outdoorsman has finally paid off! I get to experience nature in all of it's radiant glory. She can be a cruel mistress.

i have had 2 on me so far this year 1 was walking the other was in and i had to get him out

Wrighter, sorry to hear about you situation. I'll pray the meds help and you get to feeling better soon.

When I was in the Marine Corps we were out in the field all the time and the ticks could get bad!
One thing we would to to keep them off of us is tear the heads off of the paper matches we would get in our MRE and take them like asprin. Just swollow them and wash them down with some water. the sulpher from the match heads would get in your system and the ticks didn't seem to want anything to do with us after that.

I'm not sure how good this is for you, but it did seem to keep the ticks off.

Hope you get to feeling better soon wrighter. I know two people who have had it this spring, and they were miserable too.

Like fisherlady said, be diligent about your pets as well. My black lab Hank got Lyme a few years ago from a pheasant hunt on a warm day. The numbers of ticks on the Gamelands in Butler County are horrible. We missed a good part of the south zone duck season because he was so lame. He's fine now. BTW, if your pet needs antibiotics, you can get 'em free at Giant Eagle, as long as they're one of the antibiotics in their free program. His Lyme medication was free (can't remember which one it was exactly).

Your flea and tick stuff for your pet matters. If you've got a water dog, or a dog that gets wet or bathed frequently DO NOT USE ADVANTIX. I used it because it also repels ticks, but my vet told me it is horrible for dogs that get wet, even a few times a month. Been using Frontline since then and haven't had any problems.

Something else the vet told me that was interesting. Cold weather and frost DOES NOT KILL TICKS. They simply go dormant, but with just one warm day they can get active again. So, be diligent year round for yourself and your pets.

i have heard the military thing as well.  a friend of the family who was a green beret said that down in panama they would eat the head off of matches to keep the misquitos off.  they said when you sweat you could smell the sulfur