Reply With QuoteDo you walk in the woods or long grass because it could be a Tick bite.
Last Sunday, my left leg, just below the knee, started to feel like I’d bumped into something. I didn’t pay attention - until I took off my clothing for a shower...
Then I spotted this. Red, round with a small ‘hill’ in the middle. Two days later it’s still red and painful when I touch it - or when the inside of my jeans touch the spot.
And no, I’m not growing a nipple there...
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Do you walk in the woods or long grass because it could be a Tick bite.
"Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it's enemy action."
'Populism, the last refuge of a Tory scoundrel'.
Ooohhh a hairy nipple lol
Google search false widow bite its possible
Astra Zeneca?
AZ's jab? Mmmm trombosis in my leg. Still waiting for my first jab, though. Two answers about ticks and spiders and I'm already considering seeing my GP...Originally Posted by tixntox
I would see a doctor. If a secondary circle appears it will be a tick carrying Lyme's disease. I am not sure the second circle is systematic.
'Against stupidity, the gods themselves struggle in vain' - Schiller.
It won't hurt as much once they have hatched......
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Slow worm?
I’d go for tick or spider. Watch out for the secondary circle.
You have to suspect Tick, and take action based on that...........
Whatever you do - don't search for "Botfly" on Youtube................
I'll grab the phone for a doctor's appointment first thing tomorrow morning. A tick bite would really puzzle me: how on earth did it get there? Wearing boots, jeans or coveralls. The weather was nasty the last few days. Real March-weather with wind, rain and sun. Not wearing a bermuda... A spider bite would make more sense: Last Sunday (when the weather was really bad) I was working in my garage, building a sawbuck and sorting firewood.
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I wonder if Magirus has finished in the bathroom yet?
Cheers..
Jase
I suspect that a tick-bite is the worst 'credible' one, so approach on that basis.
Have you been working on an MG ‘Bee’ recently?
Seriously, I suggest you see your doctor. Monitor your temperature too.
Looks like a Tick that. Be careful and get it checked. I’m still suffering after being bitten quite a few times a few years ago. Had quite a few of them on my legs after a hike. Two hospital admissions and lots of treatment later still not right.
My wife had similar from a horsefly, needed antibiotics and a couple of trips to hospital, I’d get it checked by a doctor
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First thing I thought was a tick bite. Nasty.
I wouldn't necessarily panic but seeing a doc won't hurt…
I’d get in checked but I don’t think it is a tick bite, more like horse fly
I think it needs checking out as soon as you can.
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Started out with nothing. Still have most of it left.
Looks like the work of a papilla mammae fly, it’s a variety of horse fly often called the scaramanga. Quite rare in Western Europe.
Doctor's appointment at 10:30 this morning
Waiting for update, fingers crossed.
'Against stupidity, the gods themselves struggle in vain' - Schiller.
Horse fly sting or spicer bite. Antibiotics for 10 days and cooling with a cold compress.
According to my GP, there's an easy trick to determine a spot like this is a tick bite or not: red spots from a tick don't feel warm. They feel like 'normal' skin, where the affected skin due a spider bite or horsefly sting feels hot when you touch it.
But first: when you notice spots like this, always see a doctor was my GP's most important advice.
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I was bitten by a spider (or spiders) several times on the same day when I was playing golf last year. It was when I was hunting for my ball in undergrowth. Four bites within a 2” radius on the same leg. It swelled up a treat,went quite hard and got very hot and itchy....needed a good dose of antibiotics. Definitely straight to the doctors again if it happens again!
Don't be daft, a slow worm would take your leg off.
Hope the OP is ok and updates!
So clever my foot fell off.
I updated a few posting’s up. Horse fly or false widow. Makes me wonder: can these bite/sting through jeans?
I had a bit of a read, and they say the horsefly bite is particularly bad due to the bite being 'messy' (unlike mosquito) - so I would say they can't bite through jeans?
I wouldn't want to get a bite while having a piss!
As said, I noticed the sting on Sunday afternoon. The weather was really bad all day, so I’d been working inside the workshop most of the time. Chances that it was a spider are getting bigger.
Brings to mind the mythical Amazonian candiru fish, said to be able to swim up a stream of urine and enter the uretha before locking itself there with barbed spines and feasting on the penis flesh from the inside.
Hope your Okay, I take it it wasn't one of these!
Ticks especially can get in via the bottom of your trouser leg Menno. I guess a Horse Fly or spider would do similar.
My son found one on his knee after walking Dot in the fields. A friend of mine found one on his arse!
Dot often picks up ticks in the summer, fortunately with her short coat they are easily seen. We just remove them when she gets home with a tool.
Last year she got one on her head that we missed and it blew up like a balloon, we had to take her to the vest for some shots.
Cheers,
Neil.
Horsefly would be my guess.
I got bitten several years ago; the bite area increased and got incredibly itchy and tender over days. The effects lasted a good (bad) couple of weeks.
Always best to get medical advice, though.
Your post poses many questions Neil.
Why was your friend looking at your son's arse?
I presume that Dot is not a human. Maybe a dog? I'm struggling to figure out "vest". Maybe a tiepoe?
I would hazard horse fly out of the two. I got bitten a few years back and the bite looked just like that and was sore A.F.
I saw the sod responsible so am sure my bite was that. Hope it heals soon.
Horse fly's can been seen looking for a meal if you walk past cattle, they are like a light brown and have a slow hovering motion getting closer all the time essentially looking for bare skin, can be a bugger if you have shorts on!
There bite is supposed to be very sharp and painful as their mandibles are like a tiny pair of scissors that slice the skin so they can drink your blood, I would have thought the OP would have felt that if it was a horse fly?
Just forward to 53sec -
We'll collect our Rottweiler pup next Saturday. Bit of a struggle to find ticks in that black fur. I'm sure my wife has bought some anti-tick stuff for him. My GP suggested that I should get some sheep: ticks prefer sheep above anything else. My GP said: "Research shows that there are no ticks in the woods or grass near the spot when there's a flock of sheep roaming around - they're all on the sheep!"
Had a horse fly bite myself when I was 20. My right forearm swelled to about twice the size of the left one, but it didn't require a medical intervention.
I've had a few horse fly bites. Usually happen near cattle or horses and, in my experience, seem to be more likely when you're a bit sweaty. Very sharp pain that's hard to miss.
I knew a guy who got Lyme disease from a tick bite on his nut sack.
Horsefly bites can be ok- not everyone reacts to them
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I hope you get better soon.
As a GP, we are frequently asked about the likely perpetrator of such bites, and in reality, we usually have no idea
I worked in Australia 30 years ago and remember a guy coming in with a horrible necrotising wound on his buttock after something had bitten him the week before, and profusely sweating but only below his knees-as though he had just stepped out of a swimming pool. He wasn't very well. A few hours later, after we had managed to contact the venom specialist centre in Melbourne, they identified it as classic signs of a red back spider bite. We gave him the anti-venom and he recovered well.
Fortunately things are usually a little less exotic on home shores.
:-) Very droll.
It doesn’t resemble the couple of tick bites I have had, thieuster, which were the classic bulls-eye in appearance, but better to play safe as you are doing and see the GP for some prophylactic antibiotics to reduce the risk of Lyme disease.
I don’t think that’s true. We keep sheep, and if our dogs walk on the land the sheep are on, they’ll inevitably get ticks.
Brilliant....killing myself laughing at that
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In my capacity as lifelong (so far) fisherman, I have been bitten by just about everything in the UK countryside that can bite, including donkeys and adders.
I would say thay Menno has had the pleasure of a visitation from a horsefly, as others have also thought. Maybe they appear earlier in mainland Europe.
Did the donkey bite your ass?
Wasn't it Bill Bryson who said there are more things that can kill you in Australia than the rest of the world put together!I hope you get better soon.
As a GP, we are frequently asked about the likely perpetrator of such bites, and in reality, we usually have no idea
I worked in Australia 30 years ago and remember a guy coming in with a horrible necrotising wound on his buttock after something had bitten him the week before, and profusely sweating but only below his knees-as though he had just stepped out of a swimming pool. He wasn't very well. A few hours later, after we had managed to contact the venom specialist centre in Melbourne, they identified it as classic signs of a red back spider bite. We gave him the anti-venom and he recovered well.
Fortunately things are usually a little less exotic on home shores.
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Dug this pic out from 2018, Horsefly bite, drove me mad. Incredible itching and burning sensation, it weeped so much that my socks would get wet. I went to the docs and they said it would heal naturally! Sorry if you’re eating.
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Interesting re the sheep Menno.
I'll bet you can't wait until Saturday!
Cheers,
Neil.
Cracking stuff Alec!
1. Two separate occasions.
2. Dot is indeed a dog. (pic below)
3. It was, as you guessed a typo, supposed to be "vets".
BTW Dot is not amused.
Cheers,
Neil.
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