For the past week I have a wierd small red circle rash on inside calf. It is the size of a cigarette burn. Really strange, no itching or pain. Just now beginning to fade. Hope it's not a tick bite. Looks like a perfect circle tho, and lighter colored circle. I don't need more of this!!
Posted by lightfoot (Member # 2536) on :
Hey, rainbow.....
A bull eye can appear anytime if one is infected with the lyme bacteria. It doesn't have to be a new bite. I have had two perfect specimens...both the size of a quarter. One before I had any treatment and was clueless that I had chronic long standing lyme. The second after I started treatment and had been on ABX for almost three years.
So.......was the second one part of a herx? I don't know.
That's my story.....lightfoot
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Posted by rainbow (Member # 2711) on :
Hummm-I've been off abx 2 years come this June. Worst symptoms are gone. Still working on yeast, leaky gut type issues. I guess I was thinking about the spring nymphs hatching up here in northern Calif about now. I live in the country, but am very careful the few times I'm outside.
Posted by hshbmom (Member # 9478) on :
Here's a 2009 Massachusetts article about a person diagnosed with Lyme after they developed cigarette burn like rashes.
My husband had a bull's eye the size of a dime. looked like a perfect red circle, clear inside and a tiny bruise in the very middle.
Posted by hshbmom (Member # 9478) on :
17 hens, I hope you took photos of the rash. It's clinically significant. The rash should allow him to be diagnosed clinically, but he would not meet the CDC definition of EM.
To be considered CDC positive for surveillance purposes the EM rash must be 5 cm or larger. That doesn't mean he doesn't have Lyme disease though! It only means he wouldn't be included in the official state case count which is used to track the spread of the disease.