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Me -- NO, hand swelled and turned red, but no bull's eye
Son -- NO, 2" round rash behind knee, never expanded, never formed a bull's eye
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For my daughter, No for the first multiple bites over many years BUT YES to a new bite a couple of weeks ago.
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Yes. satellite rashes on calf, leg, torso, arms,and scalp.
no bullseye rashes.
all rashes were uniform in color for the entire area of each rash.
one large, ellipsoidal rash, put on computer, and with photoshop, primary colors removed one at a time, showed a darker center, ellipsoidal shape. on visual inspection,this darker inner area of the rash was not instantly noticeable.
the initial rash, at the singular bite-site, covered the width of my leg, and was 4-6" in height. It was hot, same intensity as a mild to moderate sunburn. at the puncture site of the tick, was a raised-mound-like area, around which the skin subsequently died and sloughed off.
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No, to the tick bite [probably more than one over ten years that didn't leave a rash that I saw] that initially and continously had me 'unexplainably' sick
but...
Yup...two years ago a bull's eye rash found by the ER doc was definately left by the tick that took me down.
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Only Bartonella. Can't figure out when the bacteria went nuts, but body is covered in the "stretch marks".
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Oh man-here I go again- I have skipped over this thread several times because I had NO idea what a POLL RASH was-and all I could picture was the chaffing that bar room dancers must get hanging onto the pole. For real.
Maybe that's because I had three bullseye in succession-finally went to Duck who paraded me around the practice to show off this third and final EM on my stomach. So that would be a YES YES and YES for me.
Cautionary tale- even though DUCK recognized it immediately-he looked in his handy dandy reference guide written up by the IDSA and mistreated me accordingly.
So here I am-two painful years later-just beginning treatment in earnest with an LLMD. Guess I better keep taking my meds-huh?
Are answers to a poll supposed to be short and sweet and to the point? Blew that one I guess. I'll get the hang of this sooner or later.
Anybody up for some POLE dancing? Carol
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quote:Originally posted by Carol B: Anybody up for some POLE dancing? Carol [/QB]
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No rash for me or my two sons.
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TreePatrol- Sorry for taking such a detour on your poll. Now that the subject title is changed no one is going to understand why I wrote such a goofy post!
Guess it brought attention to the fact there are some real simpletons like me who really need things spelled out for them.
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Yes, but rash was solid all the way across (3-4 inch diameter, upper side/back of leg).
LLMD told me that at one conference he went to one of the speakers stated that it was his opinion that solid rashes were more common than bullseye rashes. LLMD said that he did not agree with him.
Also had secondary rashes on foot.
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mine was a bulls eye then over the course of the next week it turned solid. maybe many of you didn't notice yours until it became solid. lucky for me, my LLMD saw the bulls eye.
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keep em comin guys
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Classic, elliptical, large, maybe 6-7 inches Warm and itchy
Never saw the tick
Had flu-like symptoms (w/o the cough) and hip pain less than a week before rash showed up
6 weeks doxy 200 mg/day. LLMD at that time said, essentially, oh well, some aren't better after treatment, ta-ta.
Negative for Lyme and co-infections Dec 2001
Here I am still. Post-lyme syndrome, chronic lyme? But not as sick as some. I think I am slowly getting better . . .
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YES, but it didn't look like a bullseye. In fact, I read one post so I could copy it and change it slightly to describe what mine looked like....."the rash, at the singular bite-site, covered the entire outer side of my right breast, and was 4-6" in width. It was hot and painful, same intensity as a mild to moderate sunburn...the skin subsequently died and sloughed off."
The doctors "guessed" that it was a possible bite from a brown recluse spider but I've always doubted that. I took pictures of it often for about 6 months, with my digital camera, from beginning to end, as it healed and hardened. It was eventually debrided surgically because there was so much dead tissue. I still have the pictures.
Also, I had a miserable outbreak of hives about a month or so before the "bite" showed up. I don't know if the two are connected but it's possible. (I realized recently, long after writing this original post, that the hives outbreak was about 9 months before the bite so it probably wasn't related.)
I just joined the group and I'm very interested in finding a doctor to help me. I'm on SS Disability due to a fibromyalgia diagnosis, along with the depression diagnosis which I'm sure helped me get approved. I was also born with a birth defect called Poland's Syndrome and I've had about 30 reconstructive plastic surgeries, most of which have been failures due to infections.
By the way, I've been taking an antibiotic for almost 3 weeks for a sinus infection and I've felt a little bit better than usual while on the antibiotic. After everything I've read today, I'm convinced I have chronic Lyme's. Thanks to everyone who read this long post.
Dianne in PA
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Hey Diane-Welcome to Lymnet. I got bit by a brown recluse,too, but you could see where the little bugger actually chewed into my skin.
Doctor brought out a magnifying glass to get good look at the damage.He bombarded it with high dose of antibiotics. On my stomach-sucker got to be eight inches across.
This was several years before my Lyme diagnosis. He took this spider bite more seriously than the EM i got from a tick. I actually thought my tick bites were spider bites,too-but they didn't itch.
Since you are new to the board I will tell you , we don't mind reading long posts- I write long posts myself. But we need to break them up more-into shorter paragraphs with more spacing for easier reading.
Just hit the pencil icon at the top and that will let you back into your post to break it up some for easier reading.
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Yes, huge bulls-eye. Two weeks later, disseminated rashes all over my trunk, back, legs, arms, neck.
Doctors ignored all of them.
Hello Lyme disease. Hello brave new world.
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Yes, multiple bullseye rashes on a variety of places on my body. Don't know where the original tick bite was though.
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YES - had an expanding bullseye rash behind my right knee, got pretty large. Was 25 at the time (1989) and had never heard of Lyme disease. Oh well. Didn't hurt, didn't itch, so I didn't see a doc.
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NO, and NO known tick bite. For me, my husband and other 2 sons.
My youngest son had a Bullseye rash appear in front of my eyes while we were in CT. (Went for my LLMD appointment) Never saw a tick, but he said it was a flying insect, possibly a deer fly. Not sure.
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Yup. 18 years ago I noticed a bug on my arm that wouldn't fall off when I tried to sweep it off with my other hand.
So, my mom picked it off me with half of it cut off and still inside me . . .
Then, strangely a red bulls-eye thingy appeared at the site where the bug was on my arm. Funny how this mosquito bite rash doesn't itch and has such an interesting coloring, I thought.
I only remembered this incident when I figured out it was lyme. Suddenly it all made sense.
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up for weekend
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No Bullseye No Rash
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9 But he said to me, �My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.� Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ�s power may rest on me. Posts: 1445 | From Poconos, PA | Registered: Jul 2004
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quote:Originally posted by Carol B: Hey-if I had multiple bullseyes does that mean I have multiple personalities? Carol
hehehe, it could be Carol
Sorry for the interruption. How's the polling going. Tree?
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However, rash along chest and neck where I removed the tick AFTER I started abx.
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Hey TrueBlue-it's fun to be "out to lunch" sometimes.
Actually this week I was downtheocean with LymeMomToo and I kept notes soooo-coming to a thread near you-"Taveling with LymeMomToo "
She may be a little nervous I made it home first! Had to come home to bleach my mustache err I mean my basement, got a little mold from four days of rain.
Back in Balto, Carol Treepatrol-ditto about the break from the intent of this topic-just consider it a commercial or an UP.
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Yes. I had the Bullseye rash. I had it when I got infected in 1989.
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Yup. Under right breast. Even saw the teeny, tiny tick. Pinched him off, tossed him, forgot about it. Couple days later, small rash developed. Never got bigger'n a quarter. Figgered I musta not pulled him off right. Didn't worry about it, even though the rash stuck around to my amazement for several weeks.
No one in my area knew anything about Lyme. (WAY Northern California.)
MUCH smarter now,
Michelle
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No. did not see a tick or have a rash either time I got Lyme. Was bit in a very endemic area. Tested positive both time.s
Can't repeat often enough - you don't get immunity from having Lyme. A future tick can give you another case of Lyme.
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Yes. 3 bullseye rashes under left breast in 1992. Never saw a tick though. Rashes persisted for several weeks but were painless.
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Up for my response on me, yes for both children, multiple "hive" like rashes, on their legs. Bit by nymph ticks in our backyard in lower SE WI.
Yes on my first tick removed, but no rash on the second adult tick removed from my stomach years later, but yes symptoms that evening
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Yep, I had the bullseye rash, and I had a stage 2 rash, and a stage 3 rash.
Stage 2, borrelia Lymphocytoma
Stage 3, acroderamtitis chronica atrophicans
Also, my bulleseye rash comes back occationally, and I also have a vasculitis rash.
But, because I lived in NC, this bullseye rash was nothing to worry about according to the duck 5 years ago, and the borrelia lymphocytoma, also nothing to worry about b/c this form of southern lyme was extremely mild according to the duck.
By the time I had acrodermatitis chronica, I was seeing a LLMD. Apparently southern Lyme wasn't so mild in my case.
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Walking down the hallway in my house in Fort Collins, Colorado--reached back under my jeans waistband to scratch my back. Pulled off fat tick. Hmm. It's the middle of the week, where did this come from? We were in the mountains Saturday or Sunday. Maybe it was hiding in my clothes. But I've showered and changed several times since then. Oh well. Tossed tick in toilet, forgot about it.
Sometime, weeks later, felt hot rough spot on my back. Is this ringworm? Held a mirror up to see my back. Crescent-shaped pink ring, with one spot reddish. Doesn't itch. Just feels weird. My head hurts awful, too. Sinus problems.
Crazy how this thing doesn't go away. Must be hormones. Showed it to a friend---md "stop messin' with it. It's nothing."
YES!!, now I remember it. Unfortunately, no one else does. Or maybe it doesn't matter anyway.
Also had a heatrash like experience on my shoulders and chest after a short course of doxycycline for a persistent cough in 1990. I had never heard of Lyme Disease.
I pieced this together in February 2006, added along with the other misshaped pieces of the puzzle.
tests came back neg now I'm sicker than crap after four months of treatment
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No Bullseye. The tick must have been a lousy shot (I suspect some other means of infection than the standard tick bite). Nobody in our house (3 Lymies out of 4) had any rash.
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Yes to bullseye but did not pull a tick off,summer of 2004. Blew it off as some kind of "ringworm" perhaps. It went away after a couple of days. Then BAM! November of 2004 went from feeling like a 36 year old to a 90 year old cripple.
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