New weird looking bug bite. Freaking out!

I don't know for sure about herbs but it should be the same-I know that if you are on abx's for Lyme and get bite you should be safe. Relax. The stress is worse for you now than the bite. We will always freak out at bugs and bites. That's our reality.

tick bites do not itch. the ticks have a special chemical in its saliva that prevents itching. this is critical to its survival, if the bite itches, the bitten animal/person will scratch and will detach the tick before it can take its blood meal.

ticks produce special chemicals that :
- prevent itching at the site of the bite
- prevent pain, for the same reason, so they produce an analgesic !!
- prevent innate (non-specific) immune response - which would create a huge inflammation at the site of the bite. This is what Borrelia is using to disseminate into the body, the fact that the innate immune response is hampered by the tick's saliva. This is why getting lyme disease in other ways than through tick bites is uncommon.

u could take some preventive antibiotics but i personally don't think u were bitten by a tick...

one infection that promotes itching is Bartonella, it sometimes travels in the feces of lice. The lice takes it blood meal but that does not infect you. However it also leaves some feces at the site of the bite, because u will scratch there u will break your own skin and the bartonella from feces will have opportunity to get into your blood stream. Clever huh ?

so always a good idea to disinfect a bite mark like this and NEVER scratch it

Post Edited (mpost) : 8/29/2017 3:24:38 AM (GMT-6)

I really hate to cause unnecessary concern to Evanston or anyone else, or throw in the monkey wrench I"m about to - but, my tick bites DO itch, and sometimes hurt. That's how I know I've been bit again and need to find that little bugger and removed them. And, they are rarely fully engorged - most have very little to no feeding time, so I'm itching or sensing pain pretty much immediately after they attach.

I doubt I'm the only one that feels these things.

Having now lived with chiggers for the last 22 years, their bites have a very distinctive look to them. Here you can see that if you can not scratch them, the will form a small bump filled with fluid (open that up and you have more itching that you ever thought possible as the air hits it!), and one that has been recently scratched and opened up (has a slight scab on it).
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I've had nearly every available space on my lower legs in scabs from these little buggers, red, raw and oozing or scabbed for the first few years until I figured out how to control them in the yard somewhat.

While I've never had a bulls eye rash from chiggers, I haven't had a bulls eye rash from ticks either.

The itching from a chigger bite far outdoes the bite from a tick or mosquito for me.

So, neither can be ruled out.

LOL! I'm usually NOT in better mental health after a bunch of chigger bites!!

Torment is the best word to use though! The itch is really kind of unbelievable! Even if I can keep from scratching during the day - when I'm asleep, it's a whole 'nother story - especially if they are within 'easy reach'! LOL!

So sorry you had to experience that!!

I had a ton of neuro symptoms for 10 days straight after I got them (Brain fog, anxiety, rage), but they're almost gone since yesterday morning. I also had muscle and bone pain mainly in the lower part of the legs (shins, achilles, calves), which is a classic bart symptom. These issues didn't get resolved until I introduced megahydrate capsules for the constant thirst I was having. This product and liposomal colostrum are the most effective among my stack from what I experienced. Of course, I should mention the gut binders and good diet. Every time I get something and become sick I always turn it into something positive and think of it as extra immunity of something I probably won't get in the future<<<that's not how it works LOL

Mine itched initially

So... the rash is still there. Its actually hard to call it a rash because it looks more like a bite with a bruise around it.

I went to see my internist and a local LLMD on Monday to have them both look at it. Both did not think it was a tick bite. But.... I live in Chicago.... and I highly doubt that either of my MD's have seen much in the way of acute tick bites.

After I saw them on Monday, I calmed down. Tuesday I went for a 30 minute fast walk on my treadmill on a low incline. I got sweaty and felt great.

Yesterday (Wednesday), I started getting a deep pain in my right hip joint out of the blue. It was a little less than 24 hours after my walk on the treadmill. Then I started panicking again about the bite. When I first became sick about a year ago, it started out as hip joint pain and I thought I hurt myself running and started seeing an orthopedist. Hindsight tells me that it was the beginning symptoms of all my infections. So yesterday when the hip pain started, I became very anxious and upset.

I've looked up and down the internet for photos of tick bits and they come in a variety of ways. There is not one way all tick bites look. And I have seen some photos that look similar to my bite.

But.... my husband keeps trying to call me down by reminding me that there is a very small chance I could have been bitten again because I am extremely hyper vigilant and have not spent a lot of time outside. And when I am outside, I cover up completely. And often use bug spray.

I have a couple other bites that have the smaller, but similar red dot at the bite site and those bites have been very itchy too. But no bruise like the one on my leg.

Despite having had c diff, I think I am going to go to my internist and tell her I am going to start taking doxy with or without her blessing. And I pray I don't get c diff again.

Currently, I am on Codwen herbal protocol, Malarone, and doing rife machine daily for Bartonella and C diff. I am starting rife frequencies today for Lyme.

What do you guys think?

Girle and Traveler, I've sent you a photo of the rash to get your opinions. I'd love to pass along the photo for anyone else interested in taking a look. Send me a private message and I will forward you the photo.

Do you think I'd have protection if I was only on Cowden herbs at the time of the bite? I wasn't on abx.