Iv'e had lyme disease twice. Ticks were a daily thing for me for most of my life. I'm more carfull now mostly with permathrin. but i still get one on me at least once avery week or so. I just cant keep out of the woods. I think I'm allergic enough that I can usually feel them crawling on me and get them off b4 they attach them self. Never had any lasting effects from the lyme disease. I think it's like covid, could be mild and go away all together (with the approporiate anti biotics) or could get into a long term thing and end up dissabilitating. For me the anti biotics have allways done there thing and no more symtems. But I think everyone reacts differently. I'm not convinced they need to stay on you for 24 hrs to transmit. I'm sure the ones on me that got me sick were on me for much shorter time. In both instances i got rashes, one was a classic bulls eye at the site of the bite but the second time it was a non bulls eye rash roughly a day after a tick bite and not even in the exaxt same areas, but that night I got plentl sick with bad fever and all. Luckily i had a good relactionship with my DR and he got me on the corecct antibiotics the nect day and thing turned around quickly.
