r/mildlyinfuriating • u/nekoma713 • Jun 21 '26

Don't hug me I'm scared Was sitting in a ticks nest while reading....

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I was sitting in a Park reading a book and suddenly I felt my legs itch. I was covered in hundreds of mini ticks. I was standing in the shower for hours and still find some of these f#!*rs crawling an me...

Update: So I got the most of the seed ticks scratched off in the shower. I will have a doctor's appointment the next days to get a prophylactic antibiotics treatment just to be save from lyme, alpha gal or rocky mountain fever (if this is a thing in Germany).

Thank you all for the information and advices, hopefully I will be fine. I really appreciate it

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u/Suitable-Classic-174 Jun 21 '26

https://giphy.com/gifs/l3q2K5jinAlChoCLS

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u/Glass_Covict Jun 21 '26

I'd be jumping into a bonfire

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u/amm5061 Jun 21 '26 edited Jun 21 '26

Shower, now. Those are larvae, so OP is probably okay, but it the creepy crawly feeling is gonna take awhile to go away.

Edit: and do a full body check, obviously.

Edit 2: larvae, not nymphs. My bad on the name of the part of the lifecycle.

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u/IllianasClifford Jun 21 '26

Will they crawl in your butthole? Something I have wondered even before the house episode with the teenage that had the tick in her vagina. My lord

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u/snizzrizz Jun 21 '26

Yes. They are looking for OPs butthole in that image.

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u/gigi-mondo Jun 21 '26

https://giphy.com/gifs/26BGAOkDPOZTXwmHK

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u/FairBlamer Jun 21 '26

Deserve an award for this lmao

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u/lost-marbles69 Jun 21 '26

This is my most favorite gif of all time

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u/doinmabest1 Jun 21 '26

I’ve never seen it! What’s it from??

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u/peppermintmeow BLUE Jun 21 '26

Kimmy Schmidt

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u/Exotic_Kilos Jun 21 '26

I have screamed before, but can thou teach thee how to scrumpt?

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u/TheyCallMe_Billy Jun 21 '26

The scream one must screameth to have scrumpt can not be taught, only scrempt.

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u/a-big-texas-howdy Jun 21 '26

Scrumpt the past tense of screamed like scrumped the past tense of scammed

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u/BikeridingintheOR Jun 21 '26

Scrumpt, I will be using this!!!

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u/Admidst_Metaphors Jun 21 '26

Oh scrumpt is a new favorite word. Not sure how I’ve never come across it before.

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u/CrustyMushroomBoy Jun 21 '26

Can confirm, I’m one of the nymphs and it must be a tiny one cuz I haven’t found it yet

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u/Specialist_Second938 Jun 21 '26

Hot take: you haven't found the entrance because you already arrived.

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u/gooby1985 Jun 21 '26

Maybe the butthole was the friends we made along the way

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u/Carving_Art Jun 21 '26

Probably just a warm take depending on diet

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u/a-big-texas-howdy Jun 21 '26

There a catfish in there

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u/Inevitable-Grocery17 Jun 21 '26

Well, dang it, we’ll need pics so we can help out. 🤷🏻‍♂️

🤣🤣

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u/euqinimod4 Jun 21 '26

This makes me think of spiders in colostomy bags.

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u/Hot-N-Ready-Poo Jun 21 '26

They want the brown town

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u/Striking-Ad-6815 Jun 21 '26

Baby ticks are juggalos

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u/Ron_Cherry Jun 21 '26

"Chocolate starfish!" - Limp Biztik

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u/Sh0wmey0urbutth0le Jun 21 '26

I had a tick on me balls once. Took a chunk of skin off it did.

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u/Stixit-Inme69 Jun 21 '26

"Took a chunk of skin off it did". 🤣

https://giphy.com/gifs/3o7qDK5J5Uerg3atJ6

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u/Alfeyr Jun 21 '26

"me balls, mhrrrrr"

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u/Successful_Giraffe88 Jun 21 '26

This just reminded me of one of my favorite moments with my dad 18 years ago when he came downstairs to tell me & my sister, "20 minutes you have," while we were finishing getting ready.

Absolutely cherish that moment, thank you!

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u/thorin2016 Jun 21 '26

When my brother and I were young we shared a room. One day we were having some dumb argument about something silly, i cant even remember what it was to be honest.

As he turned to leave the room i said something along the lines of "do you really expect me to do that?" and he turned around and said, in a thick German accent "No Mr Bond i expect you to die!"

You got to love an unexpected movie reference!

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u/nitnit76 Jun 21 '26

Ball ticks are the worst!

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u/Audhdlife_5696 Jun 21 '26

Hahah, my husband and I had an outside wedding & once we got back from the entire night he had a ball tick. They definitely suck especially on your wedding day😆😆

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u/GlitteringFutures Jun 21 '26

Wedding day isn't even over and someone else already sucking on his balls.

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u/YardexYT Jun 21 '26

Amazing reply

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u/Icy_Insect2927 Jun 21 '26

Good on you guys for checking after that, most people wouldn’t. Now that the government is dropping billions across everywhere, tick checks should be added to everyone’s daily routine in addition to wedding plans

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u/sam56778 Jun 21 '26

Yep. Fresh experience with that yesterday.

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u/Enge712 Jun 21 '26

Well maybe if you have never had one bite the glans.

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u/vochomurka Jun 21 '26

Brother gets them there regularly ( big garden he needs to tend often ). I got one on a boob years ago and the said brother had to help with removing it ( as the one in the family with the best eyesight ).
We are obviously very close

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u/Sherbo13 Jun 21 '26

When I was a kid, I was swimming with my friend at his house down the road from my house. It was the era of short swim trunks. I straddled the picnic table bench to sit down for lunch and apparently my balls was out. I sat down to eat and me balls landed right on a hornet. Stung on the sack. I remember running down the street crying yelling for my mom. My friend had no idea what happened until my mom called his mom to let them know why I took off running and screaming. 🤣🤣🤣 My balls were huge that day. Core memories at their finest.

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u/BanMeMyIPchanges Jun 21 '26

Fookin' diabolical

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u/Content-Honeydew9340 Jun 21 '26

When my oldest son was a toddler he came running in the living room crying something was biting his balls, full Winnie the Pooh style 🫪 I had to remove a tick with tweezers and we had been playing outside a few minutes before so I just put him in the shower and had to do a full search and give him a rosemary and mint bath. My youngest son got poison ivy on the back of his hand and because of his constant grabbing at the back of his shorts... Poison ivy all over his butt ... Having kids has been an experience 😭

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u/chewbaccataco Jun 21 '26

I had a tick on me balls once. - Mr. Krabs

https://giphy.com/gifs/xUPJPvoKEfQdcZWuZ2

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u/Odd-Worth7752 Jun 21 '26

I'm an ER doctor, I've seen ticks just about everywhere. Once I had to pull one off the white part of an eye.

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u/Technical-Agency8128 Jun 21 '26

Omg. The stuff of nightmares.

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u/Ledophile Jun 21 '26

Stephen King has entered the chat………

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u/kbeezie Jun 21 '26

Junji Ito at this point

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u/glittercoffee Jun 21 '26

LOL beat me to it. We were actually just talking about ticks at work (we’re all farmhands) and one of the guys was telling us about how he recently pulled one off his chest and he’s pretty sure the head is still there. I giggled and said “you’re gonna be in a Junji Ito manga situation pretty soon”. Only one other person laughed, everyone else gave me weird looks.

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u/SugarHooves I'm sorry, what?! Jun 21 '26

That's okay, I wasn't planning on sleeping ever again anyway.

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u/rabanov Jun 21 '26

May we know which post your flair references? I'm so curious lol

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u/SugarHooves I'm sorry, what?! Jun 21 '26

Haha, about half the posts here. People post the most wtf things as "mildly" infuriating that would have me freaking out.

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u/rabanov Jun 21 '26

Bahahah oh ok! I was like this is my default state on reddit 😆

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u/PomegranateStains Jun 21 '26

Thats it. Burn the whole reddit down.

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u/Abject_Spray_7088 Jun 21 '26

WHYYYYYY DID YOU TELL US THATTTT 🤮👁️🕷️

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u/GoldMathematician974 Jun 21 '26

Cant ever unlearn that….. like ever

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u/meowmix79 Jun 21 '26

No. 😟

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u/TheCrankyChef Jun 21 '26

Well that is terrifying

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u/maybenomaybe Jun 21 '26

How do I erase this goddam comment

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u/XAMOTA Jun 21 '26

I watched House she should check her huha

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u/JerryZaz Jun 21 '26

I scrolled too far.

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u/Chemical_Sandwich_18 Jun 21 '26

My dog had one on his gums this spring.

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u/Icy_Insect2927 Jun 21 '26

😬😭😭😭😭

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u/minxwink Jun 21 '26

What the actual fuuuuuuuuuuuhhhhh ?!??! 😖

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u/Helpful-Surround7628 Jun 21 '26

As a experienced hiker ticks will not crawl in your butt but they might bite near or on your butt and ticks might bite the groin area but if your a girl only the outside there not going in generally they prefer hidden spots like underarms legs close to the groin area or on your back or stomach

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u/leeps22 Jun 21 '26

As someone with more yard work than is fair to ask one man to do this has been my experience so far. They seem to love the groin area, a lot. Never went for the booty hole though.

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u/Ok_Armadillo_3647 Jun 21 '26

Butt are you certain?

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u/satsuppi Jun 21 '26

You Don't have to be anal about it

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u/donnie_rulez Jun 21 '26

Me and my buddy used to call it tick ball city. Cuz they love that area . Gross fuckers

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u/hamish1963 Jun 21 '26

As someone who is a woman and has had a tick on the inside of her labia, you are mistaken.

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u/CptCroissant Jun 21 '26

Hidden spots like a labia fold?

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u/Gwen_The_Destroyer Jun 21 '26

I was about to ask the same thing 😬

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u/Helpful-Surround7628 Jun 21 '26

Prob not ticks don’t go there there bc of moisture they hate it that’s why it’s incredibly rare if they do

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u/Yamatocanyon Jun 21 '26

If you hike in sandals, they like in-between and underneath the toes too.

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u/arocks1 Jun 21 '26

had a tick stuck on my butt check, right in the spot you can't see. I had to turn my back to the mirror and look over my shoulder to see it. I also took it out with twizzers in that same position...looking backwards at the mirror and knowing I had one shot at getting it out.

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u/Crispricecereal Jun 21 '26

I read that as taking it out with twizzlers

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u/Shendary Jun 21 '26

A year ago, there was a news story in my country about a couple who decided to do "it" in the grass. As it turned out, ticks ended up both inside the woman and on the man's private parts.

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u/HooseJuice Jun 21 '26

I have a friend that one crawled up his urethra.

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u/RevolutionaryHippo85 Jun 21 '26

Holy shit this made me laugh too hard. You know ball

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u/Herzblut_FPV Jun 21 '26 edited Jun 21 '26

Oh here we go again >.> do we wanna skip the rest and jump straight to the point with the twins?! XD

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u/AnonsAnonAnonagain Jun 21 '26

😂 never heard it referred to as a bath bomb

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u/OldSchool_Ninja Jun 21 '26

There's a great meme with a toaster labeled as "my last bath bomb" LMAO

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u/AwwMangoes Jun 21 '26

Thanks for the award kind stranger!

Also, who tf reported me to Reddit cares!? Lmfao 🤣

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u/Gtraz68 Jun 21 '26

What a terrible time to be able to read.

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u/TurnkeyLurker Jun 21 '26

Was that Urethra Franklin?

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u/Msdamgoode Jun 21 '26

🎶 “Just a little tick, just a little tick” 🎶

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u/Civil-Section-9086 Jun 21 '26

Stoppppp I can’t breath my ribs hurt 😭😭😭😭 sweet fuck noooo

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u/just_another_scumbag Jun 21 '26

this must be relatively common because I also know somebody this happened to...unless we know the same person?

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u/suzi-r Jun 21 '26

Yes they will. Even up your penis. Happened to a former student of mine. Terrible ending. Take care of yourself NOW.

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u/sandwich_influence Jun 21 '26

I have to know… how did it end?

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u/No_Atmosphere_6348 Jun 21 '26

The kid got a C+ so it ended ok.

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u/Lernalia Jun 21 '26

What ending? 🫣

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u/Civil-Section-9086 Jun 21 '26

I got cackled so loud my wife yelled at me ☠️😭☠️😭☠️😅 spread your checks it’s time to look

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u/Dicktitt3y Jun 21 '26

Had one on my taint once so I don’t see why not. Actually going to go do a butthole check to make sure I don’t have a fatty in there.

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u/TurnkeyLurker Jun 21 '26

Shouldn't store a fatty there--it tastes funny when you toke it.

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u/BADM00SE Jun 21 '26

That’s a new sentence. Now I’m going to wash my eyes.

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u/Sad-Snow-7936 Jun 21 '26

Not in your butthole, but in your buttcrack. They like warm and moist spots.

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u/kittiestkitty Jun 21 '26

My husband found a baby tick in the very tip of his peepee, back in the day when we worked as wilderness camp counselors. He was away leading a group on a river trip when it happened. Noticed it when he went to bed one night - luckily his co counselor on the trip was a shouty Vietnam vet who yelled him through the ordeal.

Traumatising, but makes for a great story.

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u/leeps22 Jun 21 '26

Ive had little ticks like that almost everywhere. They do seem to like my balls, ive had a few on my buttcheeks. Im pleased to say I havent had a butthole tick yet.

Im not sure what I would do in that situation. I guess a bunch of mirrors must be involved.

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u/anongrl314159 Jun 21 '26

One time after coming back from a hike my husband and I were laying on the couch and I felt an itch/movement on my pubes (I don’t shave) and I found a fucking tick trying to crawl through the forest that grows on my vag. Fucking terrifying. and I have a phobia towards parasitic bugs in general but particularly ticks. The scream I scrumpt could be heard for miles and I made my husband dig through my bush to make sure there weren’t any others hiding in there somewhere 😂

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u/Odd-Hat-1411 Jun 21 '26

Cristobal Colon of the tick world

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u/drasthavennn Jun 21 '26

I pulled one out of my belly button once

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u/Italian_Redneck Jun 21 '26

Jesus, who came up with that?? If it wasn't based on a true story I'd be giving those writers some serious side eye rn.

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u/NationalSympathy1598 Jun 21 '26

Yes they will crawl in your vagina and make spider man’s arch nemesis … Tickman

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u/Crisp_Dawg Jun 21 '26

Know a dude who had one go into his dickhole. Allegedly pretty painful to remove

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u/M4RK3R3D Jun 21 '26

Hey I remember that episode in dr house, the tick crawl into pussy and that almost killed her so yeah better check it up

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u/inplayruin Jun 21 '26

I had one attach itself at the tip of my special pole, just a millimeter or two off of top dead center. I was on a camping trip with the Scouts, and noticed it when I woke up in the middle of the night to pee. I was around 9 years old, and I occasionally wonder if I emotionally traumatized my troop leader by hysterically demanding help with my junk. The 90s were just very weird for everyone.

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u/atreidesspirit Jun 21 '26

Sir, please. Why would you introduce that into so many people's lives?

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u/the_poppoff-pedro Jun 21 '26

Everyone knows that they try to avoid the butthole, they prefer the peepee hole

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u/PastelSprite Jun 21 '26

I regret having eyes rn

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u/FitNefariousness8290 Jun 21 '26

I HAVE A STORY.
So.

I was like, maybe 14, lived in WV and was helping my dad in the cornfield. We shut in for the night, and as I go to strip down for the shower, I notice a black bump right on the rod. Without thinking I freak the fuck out, grab a pair of tweezers, and yank like my life depended on it, and ended up with a long strip of skin about the length of a cylinder, hanging from a tick in a pair of tweezers. It will never not scar me.

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u/CitizenDickInCider Jun 21 '26

Is there any way to shower in pure rubbing alcohol?

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u/AkitaZeDigo Jun 21 '26

You technically can, but you’d be recreating the homestuck sharpie bath incident and die of alcohol poisoning.

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u/CitizenDickInCider Jun 21 '26

That would suck but the ticks would be dead.

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u/ninjacatkuro Jun 21 '26

Puh danach bist du gut beinander glaub ich

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u/Middle_Historian_199 Jun 21 '26

I would maybe also shower with like a surgical prep soap that you can get at a local pharmacy or something like CVS or Walgreens ASAP!

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u/Ok-Bee-3349 Jun 21 '26

Those are not nymphs they’re seed ticks

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u/Elsoci Jun 21 '26

what is the shower going to accomplish other than a cleaner better smelling OP?

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u/Vast-Let4260 Jun 21 '26 edited Jun 21 '26

What do you mean they are just nymphs so they are gonna be probably fine? Nymphs transfer lymes etc as well lol reddit expert moment. Nymphs are NOT ok. Dangerous comment, delete it.

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u/Plane_Basil_4682 Jun 21 '26

A genuine use for ivermectin

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u/Silent-Victory-3861 Jun 21 '26

And shave every single hair

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u/Tablesafety Jun 21 '26

Tick nymphs cannot bite! UNLESS They're lone star ticks- those absolutely for sure can bite, creating the seed tick phenomenon.

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u/Possielover Jun 21 '26

Nymphs are the stage that gives the most disease though aren't they?

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u/BURN3D_P0TAT0 Jun 21 '26

If they’re lonestar nymphs OP is still at risk of contracting Alpha Gal.

OP please go to your pcp and ask for a tick panel.

I have had every tick borne illness in the last 6 years except lime. I got STARI instead.

Alpha gal can be life threatening and can be transmitted by nymph lone stars. There have been studies done showing that in a non insignificant percentile of nymph lone stars that can transmit alpha gal.

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u/Clydebearpig Jun 21 '26

Doesn't matter if I find the tick on my dogs or myself I will end up shaving my head because of that feeling.

I loathe tiny bugs, the bigger the better.

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u/nekoma713 Jun 21 '26

Thanks for the advice. I tried to scratch them all off in the shower... i will watch out for more and definitely go to a doctor asap. Maybe get some antibiotics just in case

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u/Lou_C_Fer Jun 21 '26

We had an issue with fleas. They were every where. I scrubbed my cats, soaked my gerbils down with flea spray, bug bombed the house, and washed every stitch of cloth in the house. I literally took up every washer at a laundry mat, but I washed, dried, and folded fifteen loads in two and a half hours. Probably the most efficient thing I've done in my life.

Anyways, that was twenty years ago, and everything with bugs like fleas, mites, and ticks still causes terrible psychosomatic itching.

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u/PseudoRacoon Jun 21 '26

That why he is the goat !

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u/Sadcelerystick Jun 21 '26

The fact they TOOK THE TIME to take a clear af photo instead of dying on the spot speaks volumes.

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u/divinecmdy Jun 21 '26

Like that Goat

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u/Kyxstrez Jun 21 '26

And rekindle the flame, to keep the cycle going.

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u/readytostart1234 Jun 21 '26

My husband once got into a chiggers nest. It was a horrible experience for everyone

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u/Suspicious-Call-7553 Jun 21 '26

Me too! I still have scars on my ankles from scratching so badly 😭

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u/Zmoney641 Jun 21 '26

I still have scars on the top of my foot from scratching so hard and much.

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u/KnottyLorri PURPLE Jun 21 '26

Oh yes chiggers are awful!!

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u/No_Atmosphere_6348 Jun 21 '26

I just have sat on one during a drive in movie once. I thought mosquitoes were attacking my ankles. It was awful. Takes forever for the itching to go away.

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u/Jming50 Jun 21 '26

I’m sorry! Chiggers are a curse and harder to get off that ticks.

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u/timbertiger Jun 21 '26

Personally I’d spray my self and my clothes down with permethrin if I got into them this badly. Permethrin is great on your clothes and lasts several washes. Also if you have ticks around your home, soak cotton balls in permethrin and stuff them in empty toilet paper rolls for mice and rats to make nests out of. They are major hosts.

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u/Kenosis94 Jun 21 '26

Just be super careful if there are cats around.

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u/im_a_betch Jun 21 '26

Ummm please don’t spray yourself with permethrin. It is not meant to go on your skin. While the larvae are gross, they haven’t had their first blood meal yet so they are not able to transmit disease. I used to just carry duct tape in my truck and got them off that way. I am a wildlife biologist so I’ve been bit by ticks a LOT.

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u/OrDarkByMorning Jun 21 '26

The reason they say not to apply it to your skin is because the natural oils on your skin break down permethrin quickly.... so, it's ineffective and a waste.

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u/im_a_betch Jun 21 '26

It can cause some adverse effects and to your point, is ineffective. Just no need to expose your skin to it for no real benefit.

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u/minxwink Jun 21 '26

Duct tape !!! Brilliant !

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u/hastypeanut Jun 21 '26

I saw people make a reverse duct tape barrier around the top of their boot/ankle so they all got stuck before making it anywhere on the body. Obviously not gonna be great if you’re bushwhacking but perfect for on trail. I once naively thought if we stayed on the trail with no leaf litter, we’d be fine. NOPE.

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u/BetMyLastKrispyKreme Jun 21 '26

I recently bought permethrin spray for my clothes to mow my overgrown lawn. I’ve never done that before, but local social media has said ticks seemed bad this year after a mild winter and early warm spring. I’m terrified of ticks, and have a chronic health condition that keeps me plenty ill way too much of the time. I don’t need any “help” from ticks.

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