Male, 25, 130lbs, no prior skin conditions. Feels warm to the touch, also feels like a sunburn/very dry and irritated. Tried to include as many photos as I could!
I went to urgent care this morning because of this beautiful… rash? Infection? On my right calf near my knee. It started as what looked like a regular mosquito bite on Saturday. On Sunday it was a tiny bit bigger, and yesterday (Monday) I woke up to it being very large, red and tender, where my fiancée outlined it and put the time 10:30AM. Today I woke up and it was a bit bigger and more irritated so I went to urgent care as soon as they opened.
I had a tick bite in the same exact spot on September 25th, but it tested negative for lyme disease (or at least, I’m assuming, as I was told “no news is good news” from the lab it was sent to that day). I informed the urgent care today of the tick bite (I attended an on-campus clinic for the bite itself, but I’m home right now for fall break). The doctor told me it didn’t seem like lyme symptoms and was most likely a weird coincidence. She prescribed me doxycycline monohydrate, 100mg per capsule, 2 times daily for 10 days. She said it can treat both regular infections and tick-related illness. My mother seems to think it looks like a spider bite rather than a tick-related reaction.
I’m just curious, what could have caused this?? It was literally overnight that it grew to this size, and has not gotten any smaller (It’s only day 1 of the antibiotics, so hopefully it shrinks in a few days). Do you think it’s a spider bite? Maybe an infected ingrown hair? I’ve never had a reaction like this so I have nothing to really compare it to lol.
Thank you in advance!