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ChickLittle
Feb 19, 2012, 09:24 AM
What kind of tick is this? I'm pretty sure it's a deer tick, but its hard for me to tell the difference. I found it attached to me around my waist band and I have a quarter sized red welt with a dark center at the bite site. I'm thinking and hoping this is just irritation from the bite. I'm a dog walker in Connecticut - the land of lyme disease and I've already been treated a few times for Lyme though I've only had really bad symptoms once. I'm so paranoid at this point, every achy bone or headache to me is a sure sign of lyme. I don't have insurance so just trying to save a couple hundred bucks and several weeks of horrible ABX if this is a dog tick. Thanks!

Sariss
Feb 19, 2012, 04:44 PM
Looks like a deer tick to me - they are usually lighter in the back end, while dog ticks are lighter closer to the head.

deadpool09
Mar 20, 2012, 06:00 PM
Is deffinetly a deer tick have had multiple bites from them