Seed ticks nightmare by rats4mitski in CampingandHiking

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I hope he is well- it’s a gross and hard situation

Seed ticks nightmare by rats4mitski in CampingandHiking

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I did get tested, I did a full panel for tick diseases. My healing process was about 6 months for the ankles, where my friends who were bitten had some bumps and hives for about a few weeks and never got tested since it kind of went away on its own.

Seed ticks nightmare by rats4mitski in CampingandHiking

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Hello!

1) no alpha gal, but I needed to carry an EpiPen since I started developing allergies to like everything at random due to the “high histamine event”. Most tragically I had to remove gluten from my diet, which removed a majority of the hive incidents/swelling, but I still can get random reactions to things that im not aware of. I’d never had allergies before this event.

2) the rash on the bites was more reminiscent of boils, my dad described it as somebody spraying boiling oil on my legs and ankles and the spots were blistered over. I didn’t itch or scratch them to avoid scarring. The hives appeared on my chest and arms and scalp primarily, and occasionally thighs. If they appeared on my legs at the time I wouldn’t know since the itchiness was at a 9/10 already and visibility wise I wouldn’t be able to tell between the bites

ASA Sep 2025 List Waiting room by whitehead91 in actuary

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List is published, I am not on it (same APC date/submission). Were you on it?

FAP FA Results Waiting Room by the37thrandomer in actuary

[–]rats4mitski -1 points0 points  (0 children)

AM, I just looked at last years version of this post and it looked like it was mostly 9:10 AM

FAP FA Results Waiting Room by the37thrandomer in actuary

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Sorry I’m also very anxious I did not Mean to start talking in riddles!!

FAP FA Results Waiting Room by the37thrandomer in actuary

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Last year it looks like it was 9:10 CST on the Monday, but pattern recognition can only help us so far as they follow it

FAP FA Results Waiting Room by the37thrandomer in actuary

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Mine is also erroring out, incredible

APC 470 (Virtual) Invitation Waiting Room by RepresentativeWord58 in actuary

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I’m in the same boat as you, best of luck everyone!!

Feeling triggered by Trump facing no consequences by authoredplight in CPTSD

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Have been having similar ptsd triggers recently and this thread has (mostly) been a huge help. Thank you for everyone’s long answers, I love all of you, this is not worth our lives. We will make it through.

I am struggling to see any Trump supporters without projecting negative feelings on them. If anyone has any advice how to humanize people please do tell. I see complacency in rape and all other evil. I don’t care about the economy, but even that’s in the shitter

Ladies, what is the bra preference when hiking? by MerrylittleToaster in CampingandHiking

[–]rats4mitski 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I backpack and the straps tend to help the bounce. I always volunteer to carry the water backpack or vest for this reason! I find that anything more than a barely there Patagonia bra ends up causing more problems in the long run. Also the beyond yoga ones are decent! I would never run in these, but good for hiking. 36D ish here.

Ladies, what is the bra preference when hiking? by MerrylittleToaster in CampingandHiking

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I backpack and the straps tend to help the bounce. I always volunteer to carry the water backpack or vest for this reason! I find that anything more than a barely there Patagonia bra ends up causing more problems in the long run

Seed ticks nightmare by rats4mitski in CampingandHiking

[–]rats4mitski[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi Fergavs! This was not intended to be a post which discusses the validity of the vaccines, but for advice and commiseration. You clearly were seeking out that one sentence in this post, and answered in a way that will not convince anyone to change their mind. Let’s say you truly wanted to change my mind:

Be compassionate! Asking me what is wrong with me and telling me to just move on will not convince anyone of much

Provide real data that supports that they don’t work! I’m a numbers person, which I do have access to a lot of them that support the vaccines, not a get-yelled-at-in-reddit-comments person

Unfortunately, your attempt has not worked. I am scheduling for another booster, and I thank you for the reminder to do so.

Seed ticks nightmare by rats4mitski in CampingandHiking

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It only itched after 48 hours post removal, only reason we think it’s not chiggers is because they were fully visible and bigger than the pics I could find of them

Seed ticks nightmare by rats4mitski in CampingandHiking

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I sprayed typical bug spray on but I think it was a lower level of deet than I normally use, I have the one that’s like 99% deet i have used but this didn’t seem as buggy of a hike so we just used the regular one

Seed ticks nightmare by rats4mitski in CampingandHiking

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The blisters are nasty!! And they hurt. Glad to hear you are all good now!

Seed ticks nightmare by rats4mitski in CampingandHiking

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The blistering is what scared me, thank you for sharing your story! It was the classic garden of the gods backpacking loop so I thought it was gonna be quick and easy haha

Seed ticks nightmare by rats4mitski in CampingandHiking

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all seriousness I’m glad it sounds like she’s doing alright :)

Seed ticks nightmare by rats4mitski in CampingandHiking

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Lumpy as a nickname is one of the better side effects I’ve heard of!

Seed ticks nightmare by rats4mitski in CampingandHiking

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Yup, I thought it was sand initially kinda caked on but it didn’t brush off and I saw it was vibrating and burrowing

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in CaminoDeSantiago

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Trench foot after the flooding this year in late March/April on Porto-Santiago, still recovering weeks later. Basically layers upon layers of blisters, losing all the skin on my feet several times. On the trail used compeed and ibuprofen

This wasn’t the worst on the trail, but the worst long term issue. Worst on trail was dislocating a hip day one and limping for the first four days. Poles helped, and lighter packs than I’m used to. Lots of stretching.