I understand what you are saying. That certainly can happen quite easily. Just sayin' what you can do on your own property. :winky:

Run to the GP, tell them what happened and get your preventative antibiotic Doxycline!!!! Or whatever it that they give - This coming from someone whose right knee blew up double size, two times due to lyme disease. It's not fun. I never even saw a tick nor did I ever see a bulleye.. showed up in the blood test though...

Lone Star Tick not Deer Tick
 

It was a Lone Star tick that he was talking about and it does not carry Lyme Disease. He had reviewed the site that I gave him and confirmed it. This was in previous posts.

Oh Good! Then nothing to fear! New research is emerging that suggests lyme disease no longer comes from JUST deer ticks, even mosquitos may be possible. If some joint swells up on you, oddly, in the future that you in way injured or overworked... then don't delay, tell your doc you were bitten by whatever type of tick you thought it was, then explain that months later, this or that particular joint swelled up. I waited a bunch of weeks listening to docs who told me that it was just 'overworked' until I finally went to see an orthopedic guy who said, "looks like lyme disease to me," and immediately ordered a blood test. If you go around for weeks at a time with a joint swollen up, it will stretch out and stay that way. Just something to keep in mind. Best of luck to you.

I do not believe that Lyme Disease has exactly been proven to be caused by mosquito bites. Ticks of all kinds can carry many diseases. Thanks for your post.

Nope, the fact that lyme disease may be spread by insect bites other than ticks is controversial, not proven yet at all, they are just beginning to look into it. What happens if a mosquito bites a person infected with lyme disease and then bites you? There's tons of ppl infected with lyme disease.

One time I was camping down at the Ocean. In the middle of the night, I woke up barfing my brains out. This was most inconvenient because I had forgotten my flashlight and any kind of paper towel because I went at the last moment and took my young son and his friend. It was also most embarrassing because I knew the other campers could hear me and I was afraid they would think I had just gotten drunk or something....

Then by morning, one of the boys was barfing too so we packed up and went home. Upon arriving home, there was an article in the Maryland Gazette all about how the mosquitos at Assateague Island were infecting campers with a stomach virus.

I think some pretty other bad diseases get passed by mosquitos around the world. I'm looking for the article where I saw the possibility noted, if I can find it, I'll post the link.

But it sure sounds logical to me.

So far, all I have found is this article about lyme disease being sexually transmittable. This is interesting to me because although I never saw any tick or any bullseye... I do know my boyfriend had tick bites with bullseyes and was treated several times for lyme disease. That explains a lot to me now.. hmmm.. learn something new every day.
http://lymedisease.org/news/lyme_dis...nsmission.html

Mosquitoes in our area and other areas can carry West Nile Virus. And they can carry equine encephalitis. Here is a site from the CDC stating that it has not been proven that Lyme Disease can be transmitted sexually. Interesting.

http://www.cdc.gov/lyme/faq/

Another site concerning it from the CDC.

http://www.cdc.gov/lyme/transmission/

Here we go.. clearly your tick feeds on deer, see article and the spread of the lone star tick has done so with the help of the white tailed deer...

http://entnemdept.ufl.edu/creatures/..._star_tick.htm

And in addition, here is an article saying you might wind up needing an antibiotic from your type of tick for symptoms sounding suspiciously like lyme disease, to include swollen joints, even though this particular article says it's not lyme disease - they gave it another name and a very long (and abnoxious) abbreviation to boot.

http://www.tickinfo.com/lonestartick.htm

Dot or no dot on the tick, I would have put it in a plastic baggie and made an appt. with my orthopedic guy who discovered I had lyme disease, showed him the tick and then asked him what to do. I know he would have said no harm in a dose of antibiotic just to be careful and handed me a script and sent me on my way.

My orthopedic guy, Doctor McDevitt of Glen Burnie, says that he has parents bringing kids in with what they believe to be 'growing pains' all the time and it all turns out to be lyme.

Like I said, Good luck, but you can never be too careful these days.

Also, it's not really the deer I found out.. it's the white footed mouse. The infection starts from mouse to tick. Then the ticks go to deer. It just happens to be the kind of ticks that feed on deer that are involved, which includes your tick. Sometimes a harsh winter can make the usual plentiful white footed mouse scarce, that's when the hungry ticks get more aggressive and go after people too. Summers that are really bad for getting lyme disease usually follow a winter that killed off a lot of mice, the ticks favorite food. I read this a while back, don't have the link anymore.

Ok, here's an article similar to the one I was trying to paraphrase... will give you the gist of it... just noticed that they mentioned Chipmunks here , and not just mice. http://www.wwhd.org/TLD_CD/ticks.htm

And, just for anyone else stuck with or worried about lyme disease, here's that controversial part I told you about now being looking into

Do other insects carry the spirochete which causes Lyme disease?

Recent studies show that other insects (i.e., other types of ticks, fleas, mosquitoes) may carry the spirochete that causes Lyme disease, BUT it is not documented whether these insects can transmit the disease to animals or humans. It is also not known if other insects are infected in large numbers. More studies are needed to determine these factors.

Source
http://stonybrookmedicine.edu/patientcare/lyme
What I quoted was near the very bottom of the questions and answers....

Why should people with PN care about lyme disease, or finding out if they have it? Because those with chronic lyme wind up on neurological meds and have many syptoms like neurological conditions. Plus if you have lyme disease, you have the chance to get that treated and possibly get rid of your neurological symptoms should that turn out to be the cause.

I was diagnosed with lyme disease and PN - the very same summer. Neurologist said my situation was not involved with lyme disease, although he also told me - half of those with PN are diabetic, and for the other half, we usually don't find out what caused it.

The orthopedic guy, on the other hand (when I told him what the neurologist said), told me that my PN could very well be related to the lyme disease and that "not all doctors are right all the time."

So, what's the harm in a blood test? You might just get your PN cured! PN is like everything else.. in the end, you are the one that figures out what gets rid of it for you. Largely in part to looking into every possibility, doing a lot of googling and listening to the talk of regular folk with PN, long time sufferers like this place affords you the benefit of. If you can't get rid of it, at least you can get it into the "manageable range."

If you share a bed with someone who has had lyme disease or even if you never saw any tick or any bullseye like me... you could still have it. My manager at Long and Foster got it and she is not outdoor-sy, never saw any tick, was completely shocked.. she's more the glam city girl type, long manicured nails, hair perfect. My orthopedic doc said he was jogging in the city with his daughter and his daughter spotted a deer tick on his neck, Doc McDevitt says, "They're everywhere!"

They can hitch - hike into your house on your cats and dogs and wind up going after you.

Chronic Lyme Symptoms

Numbness and Tingling:

Numbness and tingling are abnormal sensations that can occur anywhere in your body, but are often felt in your fingers, hands, feet, arms, or legs.

Source: New York Times - Chronic Lyme Disease
http://www.nytimes.com/health/guides.../overview.html