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- Rash. A small, red bump may appear within a few days to a month, often at the site of the tick bite — often in your groin, belt area or behind your knee. It may be warm to the touch and mildly tender. Over the next few days, the redness expands, forming a rash that may be as small as your fingertip or as large as 12 inches (30 centimeters) across. It often resembles a bull’s-eye, with a red ring surrounding a clear area and a red center. The rash, called erythema migrans, is one of the hallmarks of Lyme disease, affecting about 70 percent to 80 percent of infected people. If you’re allergic to tick saliva, redness may develop at the site of a tick bite. The redness usually fades within a week. This is not the same as erythema migrans, which tends to expand and get redder over time.
- Flu-like symptoms. A fever, chills, fatigue, body aches and a headache may accompany the rash.
- Migratory joint pain. If the infection is not treated, you may develop bouts of severe joint pain and swelling several weeks to months after you’re infected. Your knees are especially likely to be affected, but the pain can shift from one joint to another.
- Neurological problems. In some cases, inflammation of the membranes surrounding your brain (meningitis), temporary paralysis of one side of your face (Bell’s palsy), numbness or weakness in your limbs, and impaired muscle movement may occur weeks, months or even years after an untreated infection. Memory loss, difficulty concentrating, and changes in mood or sleep habits also can be symptoms of late-stage Lyme disease.
- Less common signs and symptoms. Some people may experience heart problems — such as an irregular heartbeat — several weeks after infection, but this rarely lasts more than a few days or weeks. Eye inflammation, hepatitis and severe fatigue are possible as well.
I just started the antibiotic treatment for Lyme Disease. I received a bite on my leg, right near the panty line. It was the bite of a Lone Star Tick. On the first day of medicine the rash disappeared by 50%, the second day more than 90% of the rash was gone. The burn from the rash went away too. After 5 days of Doxycycline the rash is gone, all that is left is the scare from the bite.
I got on the Internet to find out more about the habits of ticks. I read that after a blood meal the tick will drop off. That made me feel better that the tick was gone. Then I read to prevent tick bites you should check your groin, underarms, behind your ears and your navel. Now I also had a burning feeling every time I urinated.
So I got out a mirror and checked my groin. To my horror I saw three black specks. They were smaller than a poppy seed. Two just dropped off at the touch. I thought well maybe that was just some specks of dirt. The third speck ran away. Then it too dropped. After the first bite they did not drop off my body. They were ruffing up my skin to make it bleed (not biting). I had a very small sore area near a moist area in my groin. After the first bite on my leg they moved to my groin and instead of biting they were ruffing up the area to make it bleed. I also found a small amount of blood on my underwear. It was all so disgusting.
I washed everything on my bed, Vacumed the carpet. Washed my clothes. I had been outsmarted my a tick. The ticks are about the size of a poppy seed in the nymph stage and they are very hard to detect. I didn’t know that until after I was biten. I thought ticks were larger and this was the first time I was ever biten.
It could very well be that people with long term Lyme Disease are contantly being reinfected. Most Doctors do not examine you they just give out drugs. That means you have to look for yourself. Check your navel too.
What this could mean, that just like crabs, ticks can be spread sexually. And so the disease.
Other point here is that ticks may just drop off then they have been spotted like spiders do. Not just after they have had a blood meal. The habits of ticks may not be fully understood.