Is this Lyme's?

[HonestJohn]

Wonder if there's anything I could start topically? I've some nitrofurazone down in the barn.


Scott

What you want is Mupirocin, but it’s not OTC and you’d need a pharmacist to prescribe it. It’s the equivalent as what we use here called fucibet / fucicort

Neosporin is OTC but isn’t antibiotic

Or stub a Marlboro Red on it

 

[Freeforester]

I could have squeezed it a bit when I pulled it off in the shower. I'll bet it wasn't on me six hours. Not even sure about its spread and hadn't paid much attention actually. Just found it today and it looked like this.


Scott

No tick removal tweezers involved then? Almost certain it has spat back out ( with a little encouragement) that what it had ingested. As long as you’re not a grumpy ol’ beggar you should live, then.

Did you see the tick move and wiggle legs after removal? If not, a bit of the mouth parts could still be in there.

 

[lochty]

If you get doxycycline, avoid alcohol. Don't ask me how I found out....

 

[HonestJohn]

If you get doxycycline, avoid alcohol. Don't ask me how I found out....

 

[JMikeyH]

I could have squeezed it a bit when I pulled it off in the shower. I'll bet it wasn't on me six hours. Not even sure about its spread and hadn't paid much attention actually. Just found it today and it looked like this.


Scott

It does not look like the bullseye rash that is characteristic of Lyme's disease to me. With the tick being on you for six hours or less if say with quite some confidence it is not Lyme's. The rash looks wrong, and if I'm not mistaken I believe there needs to be some action from enzymes to be infected with Lyme's which takes 24 hours or longer

I think it's some lesser infection, nasty no doubt, but I don't think it is Lyme's. Good luck at the doc

 

[countrryboy]

I could have squeezed it a bit when I pulled it off in the shower. I'll bet it wasn't on me six hours. Not even sure about its spread and hadn't paid much attention actually. Just found it today and it looked like this.


Scott

I was going to ask how u pulled it off.

I always use the tick twister things I use for my dogs.


In the past I've squeezed them off with my fat fingers, covered in baseline and burned with a lighter.

Would never ever do any off the above nowadays.
I don't know wot american limes disease sites exist.
But Bada.org.uk and Lyme Disease action used to have very informative sites on Lymes.
Althou be a long time since I've looked it up.

Hope all goes well

 

[Confidis]

Maybe.
I had ( have ) Lymes undetected for more than 5 years from about 2017
Once established it never goes.
Aged about 30 years in 10
If in doubt Google symptoms
Flu like .
Aches, itching, fatigue, fuzzy head and many many more . Lymes carditis has put me in resus and the back of ambulance more than 10 times with svt and heart stop ..............start more than 20 times , cardiac arrest just the once . I went from an indestructible sporting monster endurance athlete
to knackered old git . Very fast .
If you wind up taking Doxycycline or similar take more than Dr prescribed for a lot longer.
Unfortunately if it persists you are on your own from an NHS point of view.
Until very recently I had never found a tick or bullseye but I got 2 last year.
Symptoms came back got worse in a big way . Went to GP gave her ALL the clues and then suggested a Lyme test. Luckily she agreed.
If you don't ask for a test the GP will unlikely work it out despite blatantly obvious symptoms list .
Good luck , it's complicated.

 

[.25-06]

I could have squeezed it a bit when I pulled it off in the shower. I'll bet it wasn't on me six hours. Not even sure about its spread and hadn't paid much attention actually. Just found it today and it looked like this.


Scott

Scott,
it has the hallmarks of not using something similar ti the link below https://www.amazon.co.uk/Tick-Twist...3100518525-B0BQ7N1PYY-&hvexpln=0&gad_source=1

 

[.25-06]

I could have squeezed it a bit when I pulled it off in the shower. I'll bet it wasn't on me six hours. Not even sure about its spread and hadn't paid much attention actually. Just found it today and it looked like this.


Scott

Scott,
it has the hallmarks of not using something similar ti the link below https://www.amazon.co.uk/Tick-Twist...3100518525-B0BQ7N1PYY-&hvexpln=0&gad_source=1

 

[countrryboy]

I believe there needs to be some action from enzymes to be infected with Lyme's which takes 24 hours or longer

I thought it was more to do with the tick spitting/regurgitating some infected blood back into ur body either as it let's go naturally or if u squeeze its body or suffocate ( vaseline) or burn them off.
Than the actual time it was on u.

I never hurry too much to get them off ( rightly or wrongly) and wait till I have my tick twister or tweezers

 

[JMikeyH]

I thought it was more to do with the tick spitting/regurgitating some infected blood back into ur body either as it let's go naturally or if u squeeze its body or suffocate ( vaseline) or burn them off.
Than the actual time it was on u.

I never hurry too much to get them off ( rightly or wrongly) and wait till I have my tick twister or tweezers

Maybe, if I remember rightly the enzymes are from the saliva of the tick. Any self-respecting immune system would have that cleared out of your system before 24 hours was up I'd imagine

 

[Klenchblaize]

Looks very much like you've left a bit of the wee bugger behind to my admittedly imperfect eye. You need to dig around a good bit with a tunneling-like knife to clean out these wound craters in my experience!

K

 

[T2662075]

Deffo bulls eye rash. Down the med centre for you

 

[finnbear270]

 

[wytonpjs]

Scott - it's not the typical bull-eyes that I've had and given your removal method I'd be in the camp that you have squeezed its contents into your arm and/or left the head in. Either way though, I'd insist ongoing down the antibiotic route just to be safe; waiting for the variable blood test will be too late!

I hasten to add that the picture isn’t of me but these are the typical positive bulls-eyes.

 

[finnbear270]

It's NOT Lyme's .... It is Lyme, & doesn't have to be a perfect rendition of a bullseye.

 

[Freeforester]

If the bull’s eye circle continues to increase in size as it fades, that is usually a sign consistent with it being ‘the illness’.

 

[zambezi]

http://bit.ly/BMJlymeNG

https://www.bmj.com/content/361/bmj.k1261/infographic

 

[NOTSHARP]

Mine took three months to show.



The Doc took one look, and said Lyme disease. 30 day course of Doxy.




Steve.

 

[weblyish]

It does not look like the bullseye rash that is characteristic of Lyme's disease to me. With the tick being on you for six hours or less if say with quite some confidence it is not Lyme's. The rash looks wrong, and if I'm not mistaken I believe there needs to be some action from enzymes to be infected with Lyme's which takes 24 hours or longer

I think it's some lesser infection, nasty no doubt, but I don't think it is Lyme's. Good luck at the doc

I'd agree with this on both fronts
bullseye rash is generally fairly delayed
transfer of the Borrelia bacteria is generally towards the end of the feeding cycle of a few days

It does look like an infection in the bite - possibly reaction to some of the head left in or could be any other common or garden infection so you should get it seen to sharpish and monitor but probably not Lyme