Very painful, bruised, red, tick bite.

I had a very sharp and painful bite on my shoulder. I reached back and the tick was not embedded. It looked diff errant than ticks I remembered. It was a Lone Star Tick. I had no problems for months. Then a bump appeared where the tick bit me. Dr scraped it off a little. There was a black dot in center. It has been irritated ever since. But no circles or redness. This was the only tick bite I have ever had in 68 yrs that I felt. Weird.

This happened to me today , found one burried in my upper thigh, I got the whole thing out ,
It is a deer tick. My doc put me on antibiotics,
But now it feels like a big bruise, and getting bigger.

I just came from the doctor. I had a tic bite as well we removed the whole tic last evening. It was behind my knee and I don't know how long it was there, I have a large bruise at the site about 4 inches by 2 inches. It stings and burns. Doc is giving me a preventative dose of antibiotics. Which they will do within 72 hours of a tic bite if it meets the CDC criteria.

I'm sorry this post is old but I was having a pain on my left leg I go to get into the shower and noticed a tick embedded in the back of my leg.it hurts really bad and is swollen.ive already had Lyme's disease when I was younger.is it normal for a tick bite to cause such pain already?

Me too! I had one bite me last night that woke me up from a dead sleep and made my arm feel like it was FULL of abscesses (which it wasn't). Now I have a red cherry area where I pulled it off and it has been hurting REALLY badly ever since. I am a nurse and I have had my fair share of tick bites over the years. We work with rescue dogs, go pioneer camping and hiking and such. I have NEVER experienced a bite like this. It has me scared and I am in the process of finding out where I can get it tested.

I did leaf work on Saturday morning here in CT. By 3pm Sunday the underside of my knee/top of my shin was absolutely killing me - as if I had been hit there by a hammer. I did not remember walking into anything and banging my leg, but the pain was so severe - I was wracking my brain trying to imagine and remember, what I did to myself. I was wearing "skinny jeans" and could not roll them up to look at my shin. The pain just kept getting worse and I am usually not a wimp about pain as I constantly bruise/cut/scrape myself while doing things and live with it. Around 8:30 I was home and changed into my sweat pants and had a look. I had a huge red, swollen bruise on the very top of my shin right under my kneecap with a very small "scab" in the middle of it. The "scab" had a small outline of red blood - so I still thought I had whacked myself extra hard and even broken the skin which "had already formed a small scab". Shortly after I found the "injury" - my head began to spin so badly, just out of the blue. I went on like this until Tuesday morning when I saw that the "scab" was about to flake off. I went to brush it off, but instead wound up having to PULL IT OUT!!! The scab had 8 tiny legs and crawled on my hand. I am on 200mgs of Doxycyline a day and very sick with a headache like a spinal tap headache, stiff neck and joints, fevers, night sweats and chills, and a bull's eye rash.