Tick bites?

[SugaryCharm]

Tick season is rolling in again and I am still dealing with a bite I received sometime between June and August of last year. (

) Have any of you had symptoms from a tick bite that have lasted 6+ months? I still have a small reddish spot where I was bitten and it is still itchy (mostly during or after a shower). I pulled multiple ticks off myself last year but this is the only one still giving me fits--I'm beginning to wonder if this thing is ever going to go away!!!

Have any of you experienced anything like this? If so, do you have any ideas to relieve the itching, aside from calamine lotion/hydrocortisone cream?

 

[Boss Mare]

Ticks as you know can carry diseases. I have had Lyme Disease multiple times and have always been put on Doxycycline.

I STILL have a dark spot on my stomach (looks like a small dried blood blister) from a tick bite about FIVE years ago! And if I scratch at it, it bleeds fresh blood like a new wound.

I live in a wooded area, am outside a lot with the horses and am also a dog groomer so I pull at least a handful of ticks off of me a year.

It was an interesting day at work when I did a bunch of farm dog shave downs and at the end of the day kept digging at my ear. Asked another groomer if she could see anything and she grabbed her hemostats and pulled an attached tick out of my ear!

 

[MyMiniGal]

My husband had Lyme from one, almost 2 yrs. ago. We went through a lot of treatment, and he is doing fine now, but anytime you have that, it can show up years later, again. I have now mixed up a mixture of water and tea tree oil, and we spray that on all our skin and clothes, when we go places that are wooded. Just praying that helps. So far, none of us have had a tick on us since. Unfortunately, many drs. don't even believe there is such a thing as Lyme. The first dr. diagnosed my husband with psoriasis. I was like, nope, no way, and insisted he go to a specialist, which is more of a non-traditional dr. around here. I mean, seriously, he had the bulls eye mark on him. That is not psoriasis! Anyway, to be on the safe side, you may want to have it looked at, but then, I don't know...I know for a tick bite, we will never go to a traditional dr. in our area.

 

[Riverrose28]

In 1979 I almost died from Rocky Mountain Spotted fever, although at the time, my doctor kept telling me I had the flu and wouldn't give me an antibiotics. I was so dehydrated and had lost 15 pounds so hubby took me in to the hosp. they told me I had the flue as well. I didn't find out it was Spotted fever until I was tested for lyme about 10 years ago. My youngest daughter had lyme several years ago after being biten while on a trail ride. You may have a piece of head still embeded at that is why you still have a red mark and itching. Maybe you could make an appointment with a dermatoligist and they can give you some creme to help.

 

[SugaryCharm]

Wow Michelle, 5 yrs! Hopefully I don't itch that long, LOL! Seems those bloodthirsty stinkers will latch on anywhere they can.

I hadn't really thought about Lyme as I didn't get the "bullseye." Maybe Riverrose is right and a piece of it is still stuck there...I had that happen with a piece of grass that got lodged under my skin and it took it 7 months to come out!

 

[Shari]

I had 8 ticks on me last year..... nasty, nasty creatures. Got the head out on most of them. Many got infected and won't heal. So I put some ichthammol on it, slap a band-aide over that, change once a day for a few days and that should draw the head out and any infection.

Though one of them stayed red for a number of months.

Makes me miss NW Oregon and WA. Lived there over 18 years, not once did I get a tick bite and I was in the NW forests all the time!