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Posted 8/26/2022 12:38 PM (GMT -5)
I got bit last night while working in the yard. At first I thought it was all mosquito bites, but this morning it was clear I had some other bites.

One is a large red knot on the back of my thigh. It doesn’t hurt or itch, but it feels like a lump under the skin. This morning I got a better look at it and now I am concerned it could be an atypical bullseye. I zoomed in with a magnifyer on my phone to see if there was a black or brown spot anywhere. There wasn’t. I did see something white that could be skin around the center.

How do I upload a picture?
Posted 8/26/2022 12:45 PM (GMT -5)
go to this site ( or any other similar image hosting site of your choice)
https://imgbb.com/upload

post the image there

it will give you a link

post the link in a post here in the forum

make sense ?
Posted 8/26/2022 12:57 PM (GMT -5)
https://ibb.co/1mfwgl6
https://ibb.co/dbwyrkt
https://ibb.co/gmktknf

Thx, Garzie!!

Post Edited (WalkingbyFaith) : 8/26/2022 11:02:13 AM (GMT-7)

Posted 8/26/2022 1:21 PM (GMT -5)
Looks like a bullseye to me.
Posted 8/26/2022 1:39 PM (GMT -5)
yep looks a bit like one - but would be very unusual for it to come out to that size in less than one day

i think typical is several days to several weeks after the bite ( its a slow growing organism remember )

also - i think the true typical bulls eye has the tell-tale lighter band near the middle - so like
dark-light-dark or light-dark-light-dark

i think what you have is more likely a much faster immune reaction to whatever nasty bity thing bit you
Posted 8/26/2022 1:42 PM (GMT -5)
examples of v typical ones for comparison
VIEW IMAGE
images for forums
Posted 8/26/2022 7:33 PM (GMT -5)
I get reactions like that to flea bites. Like this: https://www.digestground.com/flea-bites15/

Do you have black flies or chiggers where you live? That does sound like quick bullseye for a tick bite.

Sorry you're dealing with this! I know how unsettling any type of mystery bite is!
Posted 8/26/2022 10:25 PM (GMT -5)
We have all kinds of bugs, although I have never seen a tick on me. I did see something on the side of the house yesterday caught in a spider web that had legs that reminded me of ticks, but it seemed too big to be a tick and it smushed easily. This morning I saw something similar climb a blade of grass. I watched it and it flew away. Ticks don’t fly do they?

I was rambling around in the jungle at the back fence in thick leaves, vines, and dead wood yesterday when I got bit.. There were mosquitoes, and I got bit a number of times by them. I initially thought this was a mosquito bite, but later last night, I could see the red lump and felt the large, deep knot was still there. I knew then it wasn’t a mosquito. Mosquito bites hurt and itch, but don’t last long on me.

I thought it looked more like a spider bite, but spider bites typically hurt. I have had no pain and only a tiny bit of itching this afternoon. Very odd. I do feel some slight heat in it.

I have seen some biting flies, sara, but they have a unique pain that I typically recognize, and I have never had a large lump and swelling like that from anything other than a presumed spider bite.

Fleas just leave little pink polka dots on me, and they fade pretty quickly. No seeums hurt and itch like the devil, but their bumps are tiny.

I have seen plenty of spiders of various kinds in the leaves back there when bagging yard waste, so I am really praying it’s just a spider bite.

I did notice later today, it started to get a white ring on the outer edge about half way around. I will keep watching it and photographing changes. I did message my mold/Lyme doc and sent a picture this morning before I posted this, but I haven’t heard from her yet.
Posted 8/26/2022 10:32 PM (GMT -5)
Are y’all saying that the red lump and rash don’t appear within 24 hours of the bite?

I almost forgot, I also got bit by something on the side of my foot. I am pretty sure that happened two days ago, because I noticed the red mark and itching yesterday morning. It’s still there. It itches like a no seeum bite, but has a flat round mark about the size of a dime. It’s still there.
Posted 8/26/2022 10:36 PM (GMT -5)
Sara,

I looked at that photo. That looks very much like my bite. I have never in my life had a flea bite look like that. You seriously have flea bites like that? Does it leave a lump?
Posted 8/27/2022 11:13 AM (GMT -5)
I put some Penetrex cream on it last night, and sure enough, it reduced the swelling. I figured it would. This is what it looks like right now.

https://ibb.co/prjfkgm
Posted 8/27/2022 12:40 PM (GMT -5)
As others noted that sounds a little too soon to turn into a bull’s-eye mark from a tick with Lyme. Also a typical lyme bull’s-eye mark would last longer.

That could still be some other type of tick bite.

It’s not a chigger bite, which you helped me identify those earlier this year. They scabbed over in the center and did not completely heal till about three weeks.

Spider bite maybe? I’ve heard they can leave small rings.
Posted 8/27/2022 1:10 PM (GMT -5)
spider bites often have 2 tiny pin prick holes in the centre where the 2 fangs go in

the trouble with trying to identify the culprit arthropod from the bite colour, lumps etc is that the reaction is dependent on the immune system and how much it likes or rather doesn't like whatever the critter injected into you

this varies from critter to critter, what it bit last, and the individuals immune system at the time of the bite etc etc
so for one person a midge bite could be a tiny pinprick mark with a tiny bit of pink around it - for another a great big hard lump forms etc - sometimes a mosi bite is a tiny swelling - and sometimes its a huge itchy welt - even in the same person.

the good news is though that even atypical bulls eye rashes do not appear in a day and go again a day later - rather they take days to appear and then grow larger over the course of 2-3 weeks or more and then gradually fade
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