I just pulled a tick off of myself and flushed it down the toilet like an idiot. Now I can't get it tested to see if I may have gotten Lyme from it. I've looked around here online and identified it as a deer tick. I don't know if I should go to a doctor or not and the internet isn't really being helpful now.
Wut do?
go see the doctor, 20 bucks is worth the not-lyme disease
>>17386299
Yeah, I don't know why I asked. That's obviously the thing to do. Thanks; I was kinda freaking out.
>>17386295
if you get anything like pic related, then I would treat you
If not, I would still probably treat you since I don't want to risk you actually having Lyme Disease by trusting your fucking tick-identifying skills, unless you're some kind of tick expert
>>17386295
if you're too lazy or stupid to go to the doctor you can monitor the location for a bullseye pattern of swelling. Preventative measure of going to the doctor is worth potentially negating a lifetime of sporadic pain.
>>17386320
forgot pic
>>17386327
Well I can tell you that I have nothing like that on me. No markings at all.
with a tick it's sometimes better to leave it to fall off on its own or do some trick like hold a lighter to it to scare it off, if you pull it off by yourself its teeth or whatever their version is can get broken off and stuck in your skin and give you an infection, so maybe get it checked anyway
>>17386366
all that does is make the tick vomit into your bloodstream.
do pic related
>>17386366
please don't spread misinformation like this.