I've been lazy to post this, and it seems like it wasn't that serious. But I was bitten by a tick in 2012 and waited a year and started getting Lyme symptoms and had to take antibiotics for 8 months to get rid of it. So these kinds of things are on my radar. The only real embarrassing part is where it bit me.
So it was Friday, August 8th and I was at work. I think it was a little before or after lunch, I can't recall. But I had an itch near my groin. There's enough privacy at my cubicle to take care of it so I scratched it and thought not much of it. But then it came again and it was pretty drastic. But I scratched it again and it was gone. I was thinking it was normal male itch, or some kind of skin dryness. But still the amount of pain was a bit unusual.
That evening in the shower I noticed I had a raised red bump about .75" by 3/8" or 18mm by 9 mm. It seemed like a spider bite. There was a white dot in the middle like a pimple would have. But it never got bigger and there was no black dot, rash, or anything else. So I put some colloidal silver on it after the shower.
The bump went away after a few days, and it didn't really bother me at all. Whatever had bitten me either died or fell off when I scratched it. I think ticks are pretty hardy buggers that stay latched on, so it may have been a spider, or ant?
I saw this thread and it was nothing like that. Just relatively small and localized. And I had no fever or psychological symptoms. So it seemed pretty benign.
So like I said, these things "bug" me, having had Lymes. And I've waited over a month now and it's practically not even there, where my old tick bite will still itch from time to time, 2 years post antibiotic treatment. But just wondering if I should try to take some antibiotics for it? I think I might have difficulty going to the regular doctor, and especially after so long and no visible evidence. Any thoughts? Thanks for reading.
So it was Friday, August 8th and I was at work. I think it was a little before or after lunch, I can't recall. But I had an itch near my groin. There's enough privacy at my cubicle to take care of it so I scratched it and thought not much of it. But then it came again and it was pretty drastic. But I scratched it again and it was gone. I was thinking it was normal male itch, or some kind of skin dryness. But still the amount of pain was a bit unusual.
That evening in the shower I noticed I had a raised red bump about .75" by 3/8" or 18mm by 9 mm. It seemed like a spider bite. There was a white dot in the middle like a pimple would have. But it never got bigger and there was no black dot, rash, or anything else. So I put some colloidal silver on it after the shower.
The bump went away after a few days, and it didn't really bother me at all. Whatever had bitten me either died or fell off when I scratched it. I think ticks are pretty hardy buggers that stay latched on, so it may have been a spider, or ant?
I saw this thread and it was nothing like that. Just relatively small and localized. And I had no fever or psychological symptoms. So it seemed pretty benign.
So like I said, these things "bug" me, having had Lymes. And I've waited over a month now and it's practically not even there, where my old tick bite will still itch from time to time, 2 years post antibiotic treatment. But just wondering if I should try to take some antibiotics for it? I think I might have difficulty going to the regular doctor, and especially after so long and no visible evidence. Any thoughts? Thanks for reading.
