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Yeah, I've had tick bites before with no issue when I spent a lot of time at an ex's on SkyE and did a lot of hill walking etc. I think it's just the luck of the draw-apparently 80% of people will fight it off even without treatment but one in five won't, they're not sure why. I can place it at one shitty 'campsite' at Shieldaig that was basically communal pasture land that they still let sheep freely graze but used as a resource for accommodating tourists : / I suspect it's because I was pretty burnt out at the time which is why I'd taken a holiday in the first place so my immune system wasn't able to cope with it on its own. Still, NHS response has been shockingly bad.
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Awful. I hope you both feel and get better asap. I pulled about 30 ticks off myself last time I was in the highlands, but happily no symptoms manifested. I'm sorry you weren't as lucky.