Was your ear the site of your tick bite?

In August 2009, I awoke one morning with a red, swollen, burning right ear that lasted for about three weeks, and left behind a hard cartilage nodule on the pinna. Here's an example of what it looked like..."acute auricular perichondritis" which can be caused by an insect bite bacterial infection.

Two months later I got extremely sick, primarily severe flu-like symptoms with extreme head pressure that lasted for two months, after which the head pressure subsided but has never gone away, with periodic flare-ups that continue to debilitate me for hours at a time when it happens. I didn't get a positive IGeneX test result until July 2012 and still have not been treated.

Anyhow, so as far as I know, I didn't experience the target-like bite site, but speculate that my ear was likely the bite site where the ear may appear different than a flat surface.

Has anyone here experienced their bite site on the ear and if so, what have been your experiences?

Thanks.

Thanks for your reply, Margaret.

The only reasonable conclusion is that I was bit by something. The fact that I got very sick for the first time in my life two months later, suggests a bacterial infection. I can only further assume that the positive IGeneX test and clinical diagnosis indicates that I have LD.

Yes, I continue to have flu-like symptoms...daily, with periodic intense, debilitating flare-ups.

I had two bites behind my ear, two different times.

I now do not garden but also put natural bug repellent & tea tree oil behind my ears and around my ankles and wrists every day during the summer even though I do not go in the grass, but as we know could pick one up walking to the car.