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Anyone else ever have a tick bite? I need help!

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#1 ·
I'm going to the doctors first thing tomorrow morning but right now I'm freaking out epically bad.

I have a small red bump, probably the size of an eraser on a pencil right outside my areola, sorry if this is a little tmi but I figure the more info the merrier. I noticed it a few days ago It does not hurt, or itch, but the area surrounding it have become red. And a long red squiggly branches off of it and trails under my breast a little, it's shaped like a parabola sort of. I know people get bullseyes with deer tick bites, maybe this ones mishapen due to placement? It makes sense that I'd get a tick bite this time of year in that area as I wear tank tops every time I go to the barn and ticks are common there.

My friend who's like, a super genius, said she thinks I have lyme disease too a few days ago. I've been constantly nauseaus, tired, dizzy, weak. Either that or I'm heavily PMSing.

Basically I'm freaking out and HOPING it's a tick bite cause I know even want to know what else would cause a bump with that kind of pattern around it. Someone who's experienced a tick bite in the past tell me their opinions/ experiences? I'm so worried.. ):
 
#8 ·
I have had plenty of tick bites but never what looked like that to go with it. Never one in that spot either. Normally you will know if it's a tick cuz they stay a while unless dislodged.. Some will itch like the devil and make bumps, others no lingering issue. XXX all is well..
 
#11 ·
You might have just an infection from the bite - the red streaks sound like an infection more than the typical pattern from Lyme disease. It's smart of you to go to the doctor, it sounds like it's one of those 'better safe than sorry' times that you should just get to the doctor to be sure.
 
#12 ·
i got 2 tick bites at the barn a few weeks ago, and i was severely freaking out about getting lymes deasease. i notices them when i felt a small stinging and absolutely went beserk and just slapped them off. i got lucky because the heads came off too. you know if the head came off or not by if there is a crater in the middle of the bump (if it is lodged in there it will just come out when its done feeding). both of mine had craters and turned red and were very hard bites. when i say hard i mean like solid masses under the skin if you have lymes desease you will have something that looks like this: bump of redness from the bite, normal skin, the a ring of red. ive never heard of you symptoms causing lymes, possibly its a a reaction similar to blood poisening around the bite? dont panic! your seeing the doctor so now you just have to wait!
 
#13 ·
The length of the pattern dissappeared on now it looks like a half circle around the initial bite. The bite is somewhat hard. I'm going to a doctors office as soon as my office opens up. My mother is convinced I have lyme disease. Gr.

Oh and I should have added that I have never been bitten by any type of tick, so I'm so dumb to what bites look like. :P
 
#14 ·
I am thinking it wasn't a tick if you didn't pull a tick off of you. When a tick bites you it usually latches on and is attached to you. I'm geussing it may have been some type of spider.
 
#15 ·
You don't know if the tick was attached to you? For me it sounds a bit odd that the bite doesn't itch if it's a tick bite.

What I've gotten, borreliosis (the lyme disease) cause a red ring or a red spot around the bite. If it's a bite and you've noticed that change on your skin, it should be just at early stage when the change occurs and treated pretty easily with a course of antibiotics. So don't panic over that option yet.

Tell us what the doctor said.
 
#17 ·
Doctors are stumped, but not alarmed, and want me to watch it. They aren't thinking it's a tick bite and by the time I woke up and called the doctors I wasn't either. Reminded me to be extra nit pick checking my horse for ticks, they run rampant here!
 
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