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Is this Bulls Eye ( Lyme disease)? Pictures added, any Dr here please?

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Legss · 02/09/2023 11:09

Last weekend I was away in a thick forest area, went for walks with friends dogs etc.
On my right leg I have something what is like Spider web veins for ages and exactly on this spot I got now this strange mark.
First I thought it’s just eczema, as I suffer from atopic eczema all over my legs, however this felt a bit more itchy than usual eczema patches I got.
I put some steroid cream on it and this is what it looks like.
It does not look like my usual eczema patch!
I was thinking maybe a ringworm?
But I look at it and it looks to me like a bulls eye?
Photo one is from Tuesday.

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HarrietJet · 02/09/2023 11:09

That's not a typical bulls eye, no.

Legss · 02/09/2023 11:09

Photo 2&3, 4 is today.

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Legss · 02/09/2023 11:10

The dark spot in the middle it’s the vein underneath.

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Legss · 02/09/2023 11:11

@HarrietJet i added todays photos, I apologise for my not well shaved legs..

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Legss · 02/09/2023 11:14

Also the mark looks very shiny and smooth comparing to the rest of the skin..

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mumofpickles · 02/09/2023 11:20

Look at discoid eczema this looks similar

DyslexicPoster · 02/09/2023 11:24

Normally ticks do not come off without a fight. They rake surprising amount of pressure to remove so I doubt it was a tick. But send the pic to your gp to be on the sake side

Legss · 02/09/2023 11:26

@mumofpickles I do suffer from atopic eczema my whole life, but this one patch just seems a bit different and more itchier.
As I said I thought it maybe a ringworm, but given I was in deep forest almost a week I thought maybe a tick bite. Hopefully it’s only an eczema, it sits directly on the spider veins bunch, maybe that’s why..

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Legss · 02/09/2023 12:04

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Legss · 02/09/2023 16:38

I think it’s worse, I put some Dactacort on it just in case it’s Ringworm but still looks strange to me..

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Legss · 02/09/2023 16:41

The things is it looks much worse than on the photos, more darker, like dark purple huge mark. I don’t know what to think about it.

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UpUpUpU · 02/09/2023 16:43

Ringworm is very round, that just looks like eczema

blueshoes · 02/09/2023 16:46

It does not look like a Bulls Eye but I am not a doctor.

PS I went to a GP to ask about a rash that did look like a big Bulls Eye and found her googling the same images as I did. Hmmmm. For that, she gave me a dose of doxycycline.

Legss · 02/09/2023 17:02

Thanks everyone, I hope it’s just an eczema, I think the vein underneath it makes it loooks like a bite but it’s just a purple vein underneath. If it would not be there it may look just more like eczema.
The thing is I was in a deep forest with dogs last weekend in Norfolk, got back on Wednesday so it could be, I noticed the mark on Tuesday when it was itchy and sore, if I weren’t in the forest, I would never even thought about ticks!

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Jòffl58 · 18/01/2024 00:32

28 days of doxycycline is supposed to do the trick.For Lymes I mean
The blood test for Lymes notoriously unreliable.Nother early symptom is conjunctivitis. Did you also have that?
My GP gave me the doxycycline just in case. I was very glad as my brother was unwell for over a year because his GP gave the runaround.
Apparently more common for men to get ringworm.

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