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I instinctively knew this strange rash I had 6 months ago was important. Didn't know where it came from. Didn't appear to be a bite point in it, minimal swelling, but it had the appearance of a spider bite. Itchy, various shades of dark and light red all quite bright, with some purple, to me looked definitnely like a bite and not a rash, an elongated bullseye-ish pattern, spread to about 2 inches across, and very slowly went away, almost a month, which seemed very unusual to me. Bug bites typically clear in what, maybe a few days at most for me.
After it was completely gone, now there is a permanent circular brown scar, about half inch across. Sometimes I get what appear to be insect bites, even though I have no recollection of exposure to any insects, looking like small mosquito bites, and they take forever to heal. When they do, they leave a small brown scar. I sometimes wonder if there are hidden bed bugs or spiders or something in my house that I don't see. Regardless, they should not take a month to heal, and when they do they shouldn't be brown, right?
I have a long history of multiple tick bites, heavy tick exposure, and when I print out a list of Lyme symptoms I would say I have 80% of them very strongly. I recently inquired here for LLMDs in my area, I got some excellent responses, and will be calling one for an appointment. But as of yet, it is only me that has any suspicion of Lyme. A General Practicioner MD a few years ago gave me a Lyme antibody test which was negative.
Anyway, long story short, can Lyme related rashes leave brown scars?
Are there any other diseases, Lyme-related or not, that have brown scar tissue as a symptom of healed bites? If I get a normal average cut, it heals about regular speed and does not leave a scar. It is somehow specific to something that looks like a bugbite.
So disappointed in mainstream doctors. Mine took a picture of it, said it looked interesting, said he would like to document it and compare it to how it looks a year from now, and said it could be anything. Geez. In the meantime, I feel worse and worse week by week, month by month, with short periods of waning improvement that get my hopes up but then I crash harder, very characteristic of Lyme as I understand it.
Brown scars from bites or Lyme. Anyone know about that?
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joalo
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I don't know if this is the same thing. I get little blistery rashes quite often on my legs.
They slowly get flat and turn kind of purple before they go away. This whole process takes about two months before they are gone.
They don't itch but they leave a brown scar.
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