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What The Fanorg is This?

post #1 of 28
8/29/08 at 3:43pm
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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.
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post #2 of 28
8/29/08 at 4:27pm

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Really bad tick bite?

Skin Rashes Picture Gallery & Diagnosis Resources

Ringworm?

Jay
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post #3 of 28
8/29/08 at 8:59pm

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DUDE

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post #4 of 28
8/29/08 at 10:12pm

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Bruise?

Bad hickey?
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post #5 of 28
8/30/08 at 4:53am

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The first sign of Zombifacation. (turning into a zombie) Tonight is the new moon and the process will be completed. Stay away from chainsaws!
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post #6 of 28
8/30/08 at 9:06am
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Originally Posted by Jay H
Really bad tick bite?
Ringworm?

Jay
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.
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post #7 of 28
8/30/08 at 1:29pm

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I personally wouldn't be asking on the internet, I'd be seeing a doctor as soon as possible.

FWIW, earlier this year I had an insect bite that I delayed getting treated and it blew up into cellulitis. I've been on antibiotics for four months, and will probably be on them for at least another four.

I'm not saying that what you've got will necessarily develop into anything serious, but if it's that out of the ordinary, I'd want it checked up, and sooner rather than later.
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post #8 of 28
8/30/08 at 1:44pm

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Internet advice, hack off your arm with that crap showing up

real advice, see a doctor man, hopefully its only a wierd bruise.
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post #9 of 28
8/30/08 at 3:12pm

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I think it's a NASA photo of the Giant Red Spot on Jupiter.



Seriously, hopefully it's just a bruise.
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post #10 of 28
8/30/08 at 5:32pm

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Originally Posted by andrew markworthy
I personally wouldn't be asking on the internet, I'd be seeing a doctor as soon as possible.

This isn't "the internet", this is the Home Theater Forum and we have a doctor on staff!

BTW Johnny, could you spoilerize your next gross hickey?
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post #11 of 28
8/30/08 at 8:43pm
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Originally Posted by Henry Gale
This isn't "the internet", this is the Home Theater Forum and we have a doctor on staff!

BTW Johnny, could you spoilerize your next gross hickey?
Now come on, it's not that bad, there's no maggots crawling in it.
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post #12 of 28
8/30/08 at 9:04pm

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It's about the size of a small quarter.

As opposed to the size of a big quarter?
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post #13 of 28
8/30/08 at 9:43pm

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A third nipple?
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post #14 of 28
8/31/08 at 4:04pm

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It looks exactly like the bulls-eye of lyme disease. As my mother discovered, the bulls-eye doesn't necessarily show up at the place that the tick bit. Go to the doctor immediately and get on the antibotics to stave off any lasting damage.
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post #15 of 28
8/31/08 at 6:51pm

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Wilson? Is that you?



Brad
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post #16 of 28
9/1/08 at 11:19am

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Bubonic Plague?
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post #17 of 28
9/1/08 at 5:35pm

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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*

Botfly - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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post #18 of 28
9/1/08 at 7:06pm

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i'm not opening that link
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post #19 of 28
9/2/08 at 4:58am

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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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post #20 of 28
9/4/08 at 4:35pm
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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.
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post #21 of 28
9/5/08 at 1:49am

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Damn, and we all hoped it was going to be serious and exotic.

Good news, and at least now you know.
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post #22 of 28
9/5/08 at 6:00am

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I thought the venom of the brown recluse caused the tissue to die in the area of the bite?
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post #23 of 28
9/5/08 at 7:54am

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I don't think it was a brown recluse - see link (warning - extremely gross!)

Brown Recluse First Aid Kit | Brown Recluse | Brown Recluse Spider | Recluse Spider
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post #24 of 28
9/5/08 at 11:23am
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Originally Posted by Marianne
I don't think it was a brown recluse - see link (warning - extremely gross!)

Brown Recluse First Aid Kit | Brown Recluse | Brown Recluse Spider | Recluse Spider
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.
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post #25 of 28
9/5/08 at 11:36pm

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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. Nasty buggars!
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post #26 of 28
9/6/08 at 5:34pm

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Maybe this has something to do with your knives all being dull.
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post #27 of 28
9/7/08 at 8:57am
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Originally Posted by Dennis Nicholls
Maybe this has something to do with your knives all being dull.
If I had a sharp knife, I could have fought off the spider? I didn't even see him.
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post #28 of 28
9/7/08 at 6:44pm

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Originally Posted by Clinton McClure
Speaking of the brown recluse, I killed one here at work not 5 minutes ago. About the size of a quarter.
Would that be a big quarter, or a little quarter?
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