bite

for those of you that saw the tick bite, was it ever painful?

[gorbybelle]

I removed the tick - but never got a 'bullseye' rash and never got any pain in the bite area.

Gorbs.

[JackieCalifornia]

The first time:  No tick, no rash, no pain ... but definitely Lyme and another disease.

The second time:  Instead of one of the tiny deer ticks, I was bitten by a dog tick as big as a moving van, didn't even find it for a couple of weeks buried in the back of my thigh.  Only then did I remember half-waking up one night to a sharp, small, stabbing pain in the back of my leg ... right where I found the tick a couple of weeks later, burrowed in for the winter and dead as a doornail.  I had the tick tested, and he and I both had Lyme and a different disease than the first time a couple of years before.

Everybody's different.

[gorbybelle]

The one I 'yanked' ! out was pretty large too - it ended-up in the sewer pipe, wouldn't suprise me if it lived, stuck-on to a rat or something.  Maybe they are small 'vampires' - after all the connection with the 'full moon' makes me wonder!!!!  Ha! Ha!

Gorbsx

[JackieCalifornia]

Oh Gorbs, you do make me chuckle!  

Yes I was feeling a bit vampirish last week at Halloween, now that you mention it ....

ha!  you funny girl.

Well it's 330 am where I am, so off I go!

[Dustbuster]

You might have trouble seeing the bull's eye rash that I got on the side of my abdomen.  I don't know how to download the picture, so I made it my "profile" picture.  I'm still in the process testing.  Just had a dna test on my blood, and if that comes back negative, they will do a spinal tap.  
Anyway, you can see my rash was the size of a grapefruit.  It did not hurt (maybe just alittle painful in the middle where bite), It was alittle raised up and swollen.  It did not itch.  Took about 5 weeks to go away. Amazaing that for as large as it was, it didn't really itch or hurt, and never really bothered me.

[ree4tu1]

No, my tick bite was on my scalp and I never felt anything but a scab.  Ticks inject a numbing solution into so you don't feel the bite...sneaky bugs!

[margypops]

Yes a deer tick from deer country in UK the dh pulled it out with tweezers, no rash no pain, felt very sick about2-3 weeks later, terrible head ache, palpitations, so exhausted I could hardly work .aches and pains , 20 years ago  still comes and goes, cant be anything else, I now get rashes a lot .tests were negaitvie

[ree4tu1]

WOW!  I didn't know Lyme was in the UK too!  What an epidemic!

[JackieCalifornia]

Lyme is all through Europe and the UK, slightly different strains than we have here.  We used to have a poster here from South America as well.  I don't know about Asia specifically, but bacteria aren't known for their cooperation in getting visas and passports before they journey across borders. ....

[ree4tu1]

Jackie,
I like your answer about bacteria not getting passports!  It truly is a worldwide epidemic!  I wish more was being done for awareness.  As sick as I am, I have written a letter to our community newsletter and one is going to the Secretary of Health and Human Services under the Federal Government.  Also, if you look on the internet, there are Lyme awareness t-shirts, bumper stickers, bracelets and so on.