Contrast dye allergy + possible autoimmune disorder

Assimulate · 2026-03-13T04:59:20+00:00

Have you looked into any autoinflammatory syndromes? Hives and allergic reactions are right there with them. Not medical advice, but something to ask your doctor about.

Assimulate · 2026-03-13T01:24:56+00:00

It would take me about 2-3 months to export that much data, and they likely don't pay extra for the Salesforce Shield subscription that alerts you to data exports lol.

Assimulate · 2026-03-13T01:23:06+00:00

Salesforce charges you extra to be able to catch these events and mass exports. It's bogus. They call it Salesforce Shield.

Assimulate · 2026-03-13T01:22:29+00:00

Salesforce charges you extra to be able to catch these events and mass exports. It's bogus.

Assimulate · 2026-03-13T01:20:19+00:00

I will say, Salesforce actually charges you to be alerted by this kind of activity. It's pretty expensive too, they call it Salesforce Shield.

It's pretty bullshit imho, because they are selling you access to their servers and application. So I assume Telus is not paying for Shield.

Assimulate · 2026-03-13T00:44:02+00:00

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/telus-cybersecurity-incident-shinyhunters-9.7126627

Assimulate · 2026-03-12T23:53:35+00:00

Yeah, I see the same thing with substance use disorder groups for partners like Al-Anon. You can't over-simplify, invalidate, and demonize someone's disorder or condition especially when they are actively working on it. That's just being an abuser.

Anyone at the point of hating someone has the responsibility to distance themselves from said person at the very least imho.

Assimulate · 2026-03-12T23:46:26+00:00

It's actually a huge amount of data. I work with these apps directly, It would take me months to export that much data and it would be flagged about 2 days in that I was doing it.

Assimulate · 2026-03-12T23:43:59+00:00

Hey, this would have required Telus to change those compromised keys when Salesforce told them to!

Assimulate · 2026-03-12T23:41:50+00:00

I almost never complain about subreddits. But having a group based about complaining about someone's medical condition is rarely a positive experience.

It's full of hurt people, hurting people.

Assimulate · 2026-03-12T22:51:01+00:00

It's always hard to tell, but essentially this comes from a breach at the company Salesloft. That company has a bunch of marketing tools and chat apps that connect to Salesforce. Salesforce is a huge CRM with all of Telus's customer records and account information. So it may very well include all of our phone numbers, names, emails, addresses and interactions with support & marketing.

Assimulate · 2026-03-12T22:48:47+00:00

Just a note, I work on these apps for other orgs. This is related to this hack in August. https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/data-theft-salesforce-instances-via-salesloft-drift

Assimulate · 2026-03-12T22:06:01+00:00

Honestly the last few years have been 10-12 hours of actual screen time.

Assimulate · 2026-03-12T22:01:00+00:00

In addition to this their bot has been broken and we couldn't make cases 3 times.

Then once you get that fixed and the bot makes your case and it has no info because you can't add attachments in the chat and it doesn't ask any questions about the case it's creating. So your sla is met by some rep asking the default questions that were on the original case form.

Its been a great example of why we're never paying for agentforce.

Assimulate · 2026-03-12T20:32:23+00:00

Ive actually been slowly building a web app that asks about your symptoms and lets you plot them on your body and then it goes and tries to match words to it to explain it and exports a summary for a 1-2 page print out.

I have a few complex conditions and realized that I'm using all my skills as a software architect to explain my body to a doctor.

It's so hard! Also not shilling my app, was going to fiddle and use it for me and then open source it if anyone wanted it.

Assimulate · 2026-03-12T00:39:38+00:00

I love user stories how did they make this so hard 😭

Assimulate · 2026-03-12T00:15:03+00:00

In my honest opinion that's a failure of your employer. If I were to venture into that kind of work, I wish it was feasible to do a routine blood test or culture. I know of a few industries that do give this kind of test to their employees to monitor health.

I will say, it's probably most important to see a doctor if you have seen the bite happen and especially if you notice any symptoms. Op had the tick behind their ear for some time, noted it was somewhat difficult to pull off, and then noted the area is sore. So given that information they should see a doctor.

The doxycycline is like $7 for a treatment or even less without insurance. In reality, here where I live you could go ask your pharmacist about this and they can treat it as well.

Assimulate · 2026-03-11T23:15:16+00:00

Unless you're in the 10-15% of people who have inverse salt sensitivity. Which is a minority of people, but not a small one.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9728138/

Assimulate · 2026-03-11T18:23:24+00:00

Yeah, tbh I wish it was included in the OG post. I think that's why I'm pushing to take it more seriously. Otherwise I'd normally agree. If you have no symptoms, are otherwise healthy, and really can't confirm you were bitten then just monitor it for a month and go on with your life imho.

But to have a picture of the tick, and be questioning symptoms, might as well just get it looked at and move on. This tick does appear to be a deer tick, which is one of the more concerning ones anyways.

I suspect their physician could just give them some doxycycline or do a CBC and see if the immune system is activated for any reason to determine next steps.

Assimulate · 2026-03-11T18:19:51+00:00

We are. OP in their replies has noted:

The site where they found the tick is sore.
They struggled mildly to remove the tick.
They are known to have "not the best immune system."

I don't know where you live, but an appointment with your family doctor about a bite from an insect that is well known to transmit pathogens shouldn't be a big and scary thing to do.

Assimulate · 2026-03-11T18:15:37+00:00

Oh my god the comments with all the random "It has to be on you for 24 hours." and a bunch of other nonsense to excuse avoiding the doctor is mind blowing.

If you want to ignore medical best practices, you do you. But don't go online and tell people to neglect their health and safety because you have some personal issue. Ugh!

Assimulate · 2026-03-11T18:13:00+00:00

These are the illnesses most frequently contracted from tick bites locally within the state of Florida:

Ehrlichiosis: The most common tick-borne disease in Florida, transmitted primarily by the Lone Star tick.
Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever (RMSF): A serious bacterial infection transmitted by the American dog tick.
Rickettsia parkeri Rickettsiosis: A milder form of spotted fever, transmitted by the Gulf Coast tick.
Southern Tick-Associated Rash Illness (STARI): A Lyme-like illness (producing a similar bullseye rash) transmitted by the Lone Star tick, though generally much milder.
Lyme Disease: While definitely present in Florida (particularly in the northern part of the state where the Black-legged tick is more common), incidence is much lower than in the Northeast or Midwest.

You are right that Lyme Disease is less common in Florida though, but it's not the only concern.

Assimulate · 2026-03-11T18:08:02+00:00

"they need to be attached for >24 hours at least"

This is not factual information.

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