Can’t stress this enough:
CHECK YOURSELF FOR TICKS ❗
Found a tick embedded in neck day after local walk; through woods, over golf course, and fields grazed by sheep, i.e. not hacking through waist high undergrowth.
A week later had all sorts of strange symptoms – bad guts, zonked out, weird aches and pains. [No rash].
Now halfway through course of antibiotics. Hopefully nothing too sinister, but still getting strange aches and pains.
Inspect yourself after every outing and get yourself a tick removal tool.
This time of year has the highest number of ticks, but they are active and feeding all year round at anything above ~4degC.