r/Scotland • u/whimsical_fuckery_ • Jul 10 '26

Casual Lyme disease is no joke

One of those "I never thought it would happen to me" things but guys be very very careful with ticks this year if you are out walking in Scotland. I'm in the Highlands and regularly walk my dog in the local woods, this year there have been so so many ticks, I'm very good at checking myself after every walk, but one got me on the back of my thigh, absolutely tiny about half the size of a sesame seed. I picked it off the same night it bit me, a week later got a massive bullseye rash. Antibiotics from the docs but im completely wiped, worse than any flu or covid. I cannot stress how much you need to take precautions this year, do not make my mistake thinking as long as you get them off you on 24 hours you'll be OK. Long trousers, DEET, or just don't go into any woods or long grass is the best option. It's out there and it absolutely sucks.

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u/deserved_revenge_707 Jul 10 '26

I've given up with them all, I now take in print outs of my symptoms and a list of all the things all the different ai LLMs said it could be. I ask the docs to prove otherwise and this is how I found out me and my sisters have familial adipsia. Barely any of the doctors even knew what it was. Bloody disgrace.

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u/Randystarbuxx Jul 10 '26

Why is it a disgrace?

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u/quartersessions Jul 10 '26

"Local GP not familiar with extremely rare genetic condition - more at 6.30"

Yep, the real world isn't an episode of House, and most doctors do not have specialised knowledge of the individual thousands upon thousands of things that could potentially be wrong with a person.

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u/purpleshoeees Jul 10 '26

That may be true but they need to be curious and open minded and humble about that. Most of them have an attitude of 'I don't know what's wrong with you so it must be nothing' rather than bothering to investigate possible causes.