• HeroicBillyBishop@lemmy.caBanned
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    4 days ago

    careful out there hosers - lyme disease will fuk you up

    it will take a long time to diagnose, and during that time you will be miserable, and the longer it takes for diagnosis, the more likely it will be a permanent, chronic infection

    • GrackleBirb@lemmy.ca
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      2 days ago

      As someone who grew up in a place that has had Lyme since the 1980s (VA) we really need to improve access to testing and treatment here in Ontario given our climate now is similar to Virginia’s back then.

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      2 days ago

      If you find a tick on your self Peel the thing of and find a local lab and send it out to get tested for Lyme. This way you can tell with in the week and start treatment aspa.

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      3 days ago

      Hardly any lyme in the upper midwest, it’s mostly on the east coast, idk about the west, I know they’ve that other lone star whatever disease too.

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        2 days ago

        Most Canadians live in the east. In either case, I wouldn’t be the one to risk not checking.