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15-minute at-home Lyme disease tick test

101 pointsby bookofjoelast Thursday at 12:22 PM50 commentsview on HN

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beaker52today at 7:31 AM

I didn’t discover that ticks were a problem until I was in my mid 20s, and had been rolling around in deer-filled brush for years. Either I got very lucky, or have a chronic tick-borne disease.

I’ve been battling unexplained anxiety, fatigue, poor sleep and cognitive decline throughout my 30s. I’ve had every blood test under the sun, numerous sleep studies and tried every vitamin. I’ve had no answers and no change.

Sometimes, I've believed that it impacts my performance at work. Sometimes I feel like I should be retiring, but I’m not even 40 yet. Sometimes, it's not so bad.

I saw a video on controlled hypothermia the other day, which seems like snake oil. I guess that’s next on my list to try. I feel desperate, but I’m just having to get used to the feeling of desperation, because there appears to be no answer or solution.

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mgerdtstoday at 1:06 AM

https://lymealert.com/how-it-works/

I’m not optimistic this will be all that helpful. Just because the tick you found is negative, that tells you nothing about those you did not find. Just because a tick is positive, that does not mean that it has infected whoever it was attached to.

My understanding is that the ticks only transmit disease after they have been attached long enough to become engorged. None of the ticks shown were engorged.

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billfortoday at 1:18 AM

I always keep doxycyline around take a couple whenever I find a deer tick on me.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK545493/table/rc1121.ap...

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daemonologisttoday at 1:49 AM

I like that it involves grinding up the tick. Just deserts.

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viccistoday at 1:47 AM

How about loosening restrictions on deer hunting as part of the policy change to reduce deer populations and, consequently, tick populations, that Governor Healey grandstanded^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H spoke passionately about earlier this year

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hmmnxryetoday at 6:56 AM

No, well the point was that noise, chorus, or feedback did not exist. There was no such thing. Therefore, the technical workaround was to place two amplifiers, face to face in order to "mimic" distortion.

This is the way that "Loveless" (1991) was recorded, sans anesthesia.