I caped a few deer out for a friend back in December and they were crawling with ticks. A couple days later i realized that I had one buried in my leg. I was able to remove it without breaking any of it off in me. Now after 7 weeks it still itches constantly and looks about the same as it did the day i removed it. Has a small hole that would heal up. Anyone else ever had this happen?

Usually when that happens there is a part still left in the site preventing it from healing. It will eventually heal or get fully infected. I'd dig it out a little more if it was mine.

Rm I would get ahold of a LLMD and get test for tick borne diseases, don't mess with a regular Dr. They'll f - s up.

... tick bites can act different than other bites been my experience...7 weeks seems longer than anything I’ve experienced though ... put some snuff on it I guess

Yes, I got one on a youth draw hunt with the boys the last week of Oct. It's finally no longer red and looks healed but still hard and could be pulled off like a scab.

I just checked it's no longer able to peel off. It's still dark purplish and looks like a fresh scar.

yup...it'll go away at some point...could take months

I carry the bite spots for months I believe its a allergic reaction.

Good deal. My buddy was hunting with me 5 years ago and got one off him, and a few months later was running fever and feeling rough sporadically and he tested positive for lymes disease. It took him years to fully get over it

Heres a pic of the tick after i pulled it out. I thought i got it all but there could be a leg or something still in there. It itches as bad as poison oak

Don't mess around. Take yourself and any pic's you have and go to the Dr. Get on Doxycycline. tic viruses can sit dormant for long periods before they show up.

2X Don't mess with this. Go to a specialist and have it checked out. Lyme and associated goodies are not to be fooled with.

I would get checked for Lymes disease. Look at the marks they leave on otter after biting them after you flesh them. Not good.

Yes! Running dog trials many years ago I found one on my calf. Removed it and a week later I thought I was going to die. No energy, fever, muscle aches…flu symptoms. Had every test at the time run including a spinal tap and the Docs could find no cause.
And yeah, still have an indention in my calf from that hole that eventually healed up.

Go to the clinic,the doc will freeze it,excise it and put a couple stitches in it,then he will send the excised tissue away for testing.
5 minutes in the doc office.

I can have a tick in me for minutes and it will start to itch, once removed it will still itch on and off for weeks, many weeks, especially if it rubs on something.... My legs are scarred with tick bites, even after healing.

I've tried antihistamine creams, picking it open and re cleaning it, ignoring it, and it's always the same, itching for weeks.

I wouldn't screw around with it and hope it gets better. Take the good advice above and go to a Dr. None of us on here are one but at times some think they are. I've known a couple people that had lymes and it didn't sound fun to me.

Good luck.

Dog ticks never bothered me much. But black legged ticks are another story. The bites look like that sometimes for 6-8 weeks.
From what I’ve read about lyme disease is the tick must be attached for 36-48 hours for it to be passed on to you.
My method to avoid this is remove all clothing as soon as I come into the house. Throw all clothing in the dryer for ten minutes. This will kill all ticks. Then shower and check myself all over for ticks. Any I find stuck onme this way have at most been attached 8 hrs.
Even then the bites take forever to heal.
As for other tick diseases I’m not sure how quickly they can transfer to you.

Yea I know it was attached for a couple days because 2 days in a row while showering i thought it was a scab and on the 3rd day i figured out what it was. I think ill take the advice and get it checked

Do not just get checked for Lymes. Have the Doc do a Tick-borne panel on you as there are several diseases that can be passed by ticks. My specialty was Erlichiosis. Sickest I have evr been in my life.

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