Ticks Lyme and a huge thanks

stoneeaglefarm · February 21, 2014, 10:39:44 AM

To all who have helped out in the past with my questions regarding lyme, and machines a huge thank you, I have gotten back to work half days and pulling some nice oak and hard maple, Had a half truck load last week of venneer wood and we all know how good that feels. In all my chatting with over 20 loggers from here to Kentucky dealing with Lyme I have found out that fighting it with excersise is as important as anything, Us choppers and cable pullers, and part time farmers get plenty of a work out, But, In talking with a number of guys that stopped at least doing something to keep body fit that they suffered real hard, Its a nasty painful situation and nothing is worst than to be out of the woods, So, Keep a eye on the ticks and find a good doctor, and get on some natural remedies, No preaching here just hoping to help out, Just moved skidder on to a little oak lot, Some nice wood, short pulls, and only 300 yards from the house, Those fighting lyme, Recover at a slow pace and after a while you will be feeling decent again. Missed the skidder and saw like family.

mills · February 21, 2014, 12:33:59 PM

Cogratulations!
Hope your health keeps improving.

SliverPicker · February 21, 2014, 03:22:56 PM

Keep plugging. Your health will come back to 100% eventually. Good on ya!

thecfarm · February 21, 2014, 03:26:16 PM

That is a good outlook to have. Sounds like you are on the mend.

1woodguy · February 21, 2014, 07:00:56 PM

Glad your doing better, twice in the past they checked me for it
Had target shaped looking bites both times(bullseye)

coxy · February 21, 2014, 07:44:04 PM

awesome hope you are getting better please let me know some of the things you had as in pain stiffness and so on my 17 year old got tested pos for it hope every one that has it beets it 8) paul

tlandrum · February 21, 2014, 10:45:30 PM

ive had lymes for going on 5 yrs now. im out of the woods for good because of it.it basically shut me down. I have lymes arthritis and feel as if I have the flue all the time. I absolutely can not stand the heat anymore. which is bad because ive broken so many bones loggin,fighting and racing that I sure cant stand the cold either. I have to take a pill for the joint inflammation 3 times a day. my stamina is gone. I used to run up and down these mountains like a billy goat dropping topping ,whacking and stacking. I could cut for two skidders and keep them hopping with no sweat. now I wake up and am in a haze and feel like I should be going to bed instead of work. the only thing I had going for me was the side business of building woods ported saws for loggers and such and building race saws. now I am a full time shop. I am a now a dealer for many saw lines and all types of lawn and garden equipment. I fell lucky to have what I have after what the lymes took from me. I sold out my logging equipment to fund my saw shop. if this doesn't pan out I don't know what ill do next to pay the bills.

HiTech · February 22, 2014, 04:29:50 AM

Not sure where all these ticks have come from but when I was a young guy you never heard of them, now they are like mosquitoes, all over. I know they use to spray for black flies and stuff here, maybe that killed the ticks also. They don't spray anymore and the ticks are all over. Maybe they should spray again. Don't know, just a thought.

timberlinetree · February 22, 2014, 04:57:06 AM

Tick thing is getting/is bad! Not sure who invited these little buggers into our area but they were never around as a kid. Wife & daughter have it from just one bite! I have been bitten 9 times and nothing. Ct sprayed for mosquitos and ended up killing lots of lobersters in the sound. Rollovers sawcuts widow makers use to be my biggest fear not a tiny little bug! Just one more thing to make our jobs tuffer! Glad to hear that some are doing better and hoping that those that aren't do. Ticks tick me off!

dsgsr · February 22, 2014, 03:25:27 PM

Ticks are surviving the warmer winters. Used to be the long -20 degree or below winters would kill-em off.

David

coxy · February 22, 2014, 09:30:40 PM

well there should not be any ticks this year then -20-40 in some spots prob don't have them ticks there though ;D

John Mc · February 24, 2014, 02:22:01 PM

tlandrum - I've had the same symptoms as you, for 5 years or more. I tested negative for Lymes. The doctors never have figured out what is causing the fatigue. It hasn't driven me out of the woods yet, but I don't have the energy for it as much as I did a few years ago. On a good day, I can get a lot done. On the worst days, I have a tough time remembering what I was talking about at the start of a sentence by the time I get to the end.

Fla._Deadheader · February 24, 2014, 03:30:59 PM

You long term guys should get a blood test for Tularemia, or, Rabbit fever. I had it twice, in Arkansas. Massive doses of Antibiotics, cured me to where I could do a decent days work in 4 months. Went to an old Army Dr. that new just looking at me, what was wrong. I ran a 106° fever for 5 days before it broke. Can't remember any more what the antibiotics were, but, I had a total of 26 shots, in everyday (7) for 2 weeks, then every other day for 2 weeks, then 2 times a week for 2 weeks, then 1 time a week for 2 weeks. This included Sundays in the first 2 weeks. Seems like Terramycin was the shots at 1 GRAM per shot. YUP, a BIG dose. Then, the capsules were Acramycin at 2 every 6 hours. I hope I got those amounts right. Dr said, when your lips start tingling, let me know. That means you are at maximum amount. Never got that effect.

Second time was 2 years later. The old Dr. had died, so, went to a younger one. He had NO IDEA, but, prescribed some pills and wanted me to come back in 2 weeks. I jumped has butt, told him what I had and had him give me the shots and a prescription for the capsules. 2 months and I was as good as before I got bit. During the healing, it looked like I had Malaria. I would be in a full sweat and shaking to where I could empty a coffee mug with just a half inch of water in it, without drinking any of it.

The younger Drs don't know what it is. The old Army Dr had treated it in experimental mode, having no idea what it was. He used a blood sample from that cured woman, to check on new patients, is how he developed his treatments.

It's commonly called "Tick Fever, in the Ozarks.

trim4u2nv · February 24, 2014, 03:55:46 PM

Fatigue, memory loss, brittle fingernails, shortening of eyebrows near the temple, joint pain, can be signs of hypothyroidism also. Easy to test and treat.

John Mc · February 24, 2014, 04:03:00 PM

Had thyroid tests done (and diabetes, anemia, and a few other things I don't remember now). All came back normal, though I was toward the low end of normal for anemia (I've been that way my whole life). They had me take iron supplements for a while that brought my numbers up, but made no difference otherwise.

stoneeaglefarm · February 25, 2014, 09:33:29 AM

One should always get a secound or third opinion on the lymses, One of the guys that encourgarged me to get tested had been to several doctors, There is a place that alot of doctors will send test to in California, Its just over the last few years become a huge problem, Yet, There is not alot of doctors still that dig a little deeper, Get another test from a doctor that is familiar with it, The Anti-biotics really work wonders.

borecutter · February 25, 2014, 01:52:09 PM

good to hear your doing better. From my understanding of Lymes is the sooner you catch it the better. I have a good friend who has been fighting for years. His forester actually lost his life from it. I use permathin " by sawyer" on my clothing and I never see a tick on me anymore. I went to bear camp a few years ago and had it on and didn't get one on me but the rest of the guys where covered.