Lyme disease is not something that you can tough out If you are bite by a tick that has it you will get it also And the nature of the disease can and almost certainly will be debilitating if not treated .The best part is when caught early it is easy to treat . Get tested and if it turns out that you are just having a hard time with it healing imagine what it would be like if you actually had developed Lyme . Over the past years I had had several times where a bite did not heal and I went for the test Never tested positive but just ignoring it could result in years of dealing with a whole lot of medical issues .

Thats how every bite reacts to me. Ittching, not healing and months later when it does heal it leaves a scar.

A guy in my beagle club found a tick in his beard and pulled it off, 3 days later he was dead from Rocky Mtn Spotted fever! It not just body parts that are left behind, it's injecting yourself with stomach contents by squeezing the body.

IMO Medical intervention is necessary in this situation

The best thing to do would be go to a doctor. That said, I've cut below the infected area numerous times and the wound fills in nicely in a few months.

These blades work great.

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Keith

Tick diseases worry me. Watched to many friends get sick. Bad sick. Get a tick panel done an know what your dealing with.

About 5 years ago I had an itchy spot on my butt, and when I scratched it I thought I had scratched off a tick. It stayed as kind of a little knob under my skin that itched once in a while. During this I had a couple of tick panels done which were negative. In Summer of 2021 that spot on my butt got a little inflamed and hurt. It got bigger and it felt like a hot lump under my skin. To make a long, ugly story shorter it finally kind of came to a head and my wife had to put the squeeze on it (push the quacamole bowl away).. It got really ugly from there and I wound up on a course of Doxy as they figured the tick head or whatever caused a dang good Staph infection even after 5 years.

The Doxy worked but I still have a divot in my arse where the infection was.

Moosetrot

Blasted ticks! I can't imagine being allergic to red meat.. lone star tick carries that awful disease

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I have had similar reactions in the past. All of them have been from deer ticks.
My doctor told me that when he has been in the woods he showers and washes from head to toe with Head and Shoulders shampoo on a body wash scrunchy. He said that the zink in the shampoo will cause any ticks to come off. So far it has been working well for me.

I use the blue Dawn. It’s works on dogs for ticks and fleas, figure it should work on me.