bites that just won't quit

[danaeris.livejournal.com]

Does anyone else have mysterious bug bites received at Baitcon that still haven't gone away?

I haven't been scratching them, and most of them have gone away but a few are still around, and one in particular took a turn for the worse today.

I *was* using hydrocortisone or lanacaine or after bite on it (depending on what was handy) and taking benadryl at night, but last night I didn't take any benadryl, and today I discovered that it had grown even larger than before! Not cool.

I can only assume that this one isn't a mosquito bite, since I've never had a mosquito bite that looked or behaved like this. :( What else was biting this summer at Baitcon?

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[atricilla.livejournal.com]

...until they have their fill (a few days later), whereupon they drop off. (Like the one I found behind my knee, which dropped off in the few minutes I took to madly search for tweezers & alcohol with which to remove it. I am still sure it was a tick, and a too-small-to-be-a-wood tick, at that. FWIW, yes, I did the antibiotic routine just in case.)

Then again, if the bite was in as prominent a location as is described, I doubt it was a tick. I vote for a spider, I had a line of bites a few weeks ago that itched madly for a couple weeks. There's still a mark where they were, but no itchies now.