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I just noticed this on the inside of my upper right arm. It's about the size of a small quarter. I don't recall being bit by anything. Ideas? If it's a rash, I've never seen one like it.
Johnny
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Re: What The Fanorg is This?
Really bad tick bite?
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Ringworm?
Jay
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Re: What The Fanorg is This?
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Really bad tick bite?
Ringworm?
Jay
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It looks most like the tick bite, but not really. Also seems like an odd spot for tick to get me and I don't notice it. As for ringworm, we have cats but no active cases and doesn't ringworm itch? This doesn't.
If it's still there Tuesday, I will call the doctor.
Johnny
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This isn't "the internet", this is the Home Theater Forum and we have a doctor on staff! 
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Now come on, it's not that bad, there's no maggots crawling in it.
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Wilson? Is that you?
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Re: What The Fanorg is This?
Could be a bot fly. I had one in my arm years ago. Seriously creepy stuff. I got it out as a larva before it started moving around in my skin.
*shudder*
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OK, here you go Tony:
As far as lyme disease go, not everybody gets the classic bulls eye, and some people get big ones while others get little ones... hard to say but seems you've hit the jackpot.
Let us know what the doctors say!
Jay
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I saw my doctor yesterday. I took a print-out of the bulls-eye with me. After comparing the picture and the current condition (it had faded almost to nothing) he thought it was nothing to worry about. Between the fading and the fact I never felt bad, he wasn't worried.
Most likely a spider bite, even a brown recluse spider. Wait a minute, those are poisonous aren't they? Yes, but almost all the recluse bites produce minor reactions, not severe ones.
So, no big deal.
Johnny
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I should mention a couple of things. The most important thing to my doctor was how much the bruise had faded. Two, he mentioned that the brown recluse has two different venoms depending on whether they are attacking or defending. And I'll re-iterate again that he said very few recluse bites produce a severe reaction.
However, I don't know what bit me, and since it's not serious, I don't care.
Johnny
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Maybe this has something to do with your knives all being dull.
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Maybe this has something to do with your knives all being dull.
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If I had a sharp knife, I could have fought off the spider? I didn't even see him.
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Speaking of the brown recluse, I killed one here at work not 5 minutes ago. About the size of a quarter.
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Would that be a big quarter, or a little quarter?
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