Medical advice please....Tick head left in skin years ago

Dude, just go to your doctor. You would most likely have developed symptoms by now. While ticks are nasty, not all carry disease. The bump could indicate the head still left in but if it got inflammed after you extracted it it could lead to some soft tissue scarring.

Where exactly in the genitals did the tick bite? The scrotum? The tip of the penis? The penile shaft? You are right to be concerned with the long term effects this may have on that region of your body.

Penile shaft.

Don't worry about it - this is good medical advice. Of course you are already worried about it, or you wouldn't be asking. So I should say, stop worrying about it.

If you are worried about transmission of some tick borne disease, don't worry. Symptoms of Lyme or RMSF or ehrlichiosis or what have you would have showed up long ago.

If you are worried about continued presence of a foreign body, i.e. the tick mouth parts, stop worrying. They are organic, and the body is pretty good at removing, or walling off and expelling, foreign material. Usually a pimple or pustule or whatever will form, the patient squeezes it, and out comes the debris.

No doc in his right mind is going to go digging around in your skin. Even bits or glass and splinters of recent origin are often very very hard to find and digging around causes a bloody mess, and usually is unsuccessful anyway.

No don't worry about it. The little discoloration is probably just from the initial skin break.

If you see a doctor for this, they are probably going to think you are a hypochondriac or are crazy. Sorry.

I'll second don't worry about it. As a small child I woke up from a nap with an attached tick over my eye and my mom removed it. I remember at some point later developing what I'd call a raised mole in the same spot (maybe a year later?) - I was too young to remember when or how, but the mole eventually went away.

My initial assumption is that if organic material like a tick's head was left under your skin, that your body would get rid of it over time from the inside. I could be wrong, but I would be surprised if I were wrong.

Your testicles are full of tick babies instead of human sperm.

Go to letsrun and ask for medical advice.

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Go to letsrun and ask for medical advice.

If I can earn a political science or economics degree from reading the posts of letsrun professors, then why shouldn't I be able to earn my medical degree?

Jesus, dude, be a man! Dig around in there with a knife or something and get whatever it is out. Don't waste your money going to a doctor.

I had this exact same thing happen on the tip of my penis as a young adolescent. Here is the crazy part, 17 years have passed and I still have this very strange place that forms almost like a blackhead every 4 months or so at which time I squeeze it and the contents come out, kind of the consistency of a blackhead. Not pus like or oozy. it simply will never heal though. It fills back up every 4 months. It has never been infected and never hurt. It has reached a point where I simply want it to go away. Any thoughts on this?

Op what state do you live in? If northeast us Lyme risk is much higher for e.g. other areas are more of A risk for other tick diseases. Just look or up. Regardless it's been years and you're probably fine.

Also fyi swabbing alcohol is a bad Idea. You don't want to do anything that might cause the tick to regurgitate. Your best bet it's to pull with slow steady pressure. Those tick "spoons"are phenomenal.