hi
Sorry if I am posting too many new threads- I keep having questions and am not sure if I should lop them on to the same thread or start a new one.
Someone here said the rash I described having was the skin lyme rash- the initial rash before it gets deeper in and presents deeper.
I wish I had taken a photo of it!
My question is-- my bite showed up, then a few hours later the rash, and by the next day the rash was gone- it never grew past its initial presentation. And now a few days later the bite is still here on my leg-small- size of a pimple- with a dot in the middle.
I am trying to understand if, despite the hue am't of ticks and lyme that are everywhere, if mine could have possibly actually been something other than a lyme rash.
I mean, I know everyone here is saying DO THE ANTIBIOTICS and I hear that. And I am still doing them but only three days or so in I am still really considering the future course.
And I just want to learn an understand the whole spectrum as much as I can while I figure it out.
Are there any other insect bites that also present with a small rash?
Is the rash going away so quickly indicative of anything?
I was talking to a friend this morning and telling him I am doing the doxy for a tick bite and he said, "I get tick bites all the time" and he has only taken small occasional doses of doxy for it. I found myself wondering, afte spending hours on the internet last night researching ticks and lyme, if he was inevitably gonna get lyme? Or if some ticks don't have lyme?
There is so much confusion I am trying to sort out while I try to decide what to do.
thanks for any help
I am especially trying to figure out what the rash experience was like for people who got lyme- and if my rash sounds like lyme or not---
it was on two sides in sort of an oval shap and maybe 2 inches across and three inches long-- presented for aobut 12 hours and then went away.