Last Sunday when I woke my four year old daughter up to get dressed for church she couldn't walk. It was as if she was paralyzed from the waist down. So we rushed her to the hospital not having any idea what could wrong and I was scared to death thinking something was terribly wrong but when doc came in she said they would need to check her for ticks and sure enough she had one right in the top of her head that had caused tick bite paralysis after the doctor removed it, it took her about three hours and she was back running all over the place and to think a little tick could do that.

I have been diagnosed with Lyme disease three times and once with STARI, all in the last five years. Twice it was behind my knee and I didn't know until the itch that I had for days wouldn't stop with all kinds of creams. The tick was so tiny my husband, who tried to remove it, had to take a magnifying glass. They were deer ticks and once the Lone Star Tick. Once it was on my waist and once on the inside of my thigh. I seem to be more prone to having them than my husband, but I do work a lot in my garden in Alabama. The first time I started feeling fatigued and nauseated and generally not well, the doctor prescribed doxycycline and it seems to have worked every time. I just found a Lone Star Tick today on my back, but I think I just got it this afternoon, so I'm not too worried, but will keep watching the spot for any signs of a rash.

I became ill after two ticks attached to my scalp. After four days I detected the parasites and dug them out from under my scalp. My symptoms included dizziness, severe weakness, headache, fainting, loss of blood, vomiting, hemoglobins drop to eight point zero. It was a very difficult time.

I've had ticks on me with no bumps or rashes. Last year in Alabama I got a tick on my chest. A friend removed it but I had a scab for a very long time -- nearly six or more months. Then last week I got a tick on the back of my leg. I didn't know it was there for two days. I found it while I was in the shower. My husband got it off for me. Mow nearly a week later I have the bull's eye rash. I think I may have Lyme disease.

Today I found a tick embedded in the crease behind my knee. I had someone pull it out with tweezers and two doses of doxycycline were just prescribed for me. It's very red and sore in the area of the bite. Just sitting here I can feel it. I golfed yesterday in a wooded area.

I live in an area where ticks abound and I spend a lot of time in the woods and on a lake with my dog. Consequently, I have had many ticks over time - but this year I have had two real "bites" that have worried me. Both times I have had hard, knotty sores and this is so different than anything else I've experienced. No rashes or other symptoms (yet - the most recent bite was two days ago) -- but I will be happy when the ticks decide to go into hiding during summer heat!

I'm in the business of cleaning out foreclosed homes. I have been bitten by ticks at least 12 times in the last month. All were either deer or black leg ticks. Most were on leg, arm side or back.

I live in Northern California and we are having a terrible tick season. I walk my dogs on the trails every day and every day we have at least three ticks between us. They mostly attach to the dogs face and groin. I've had them on my back, arms, neck and hair. Tick checks are a daily occurrence now.

I have found nine ticks in the last three days.

I have been bitten twice by ticks in the past three months! The first was three months ago on my back! I still have itching and a scab in that area! I found one on my leg a few days ago! I removed it and put antibiotic ointment on it! Now there is a large knot like place under where the bite was! I am not sure what to do about it! I live on a lake and unfortunately I am subject to ticks more so than those living in urban areas!

My daughter was brushing my granddaughter's hair until she notices something in her head moving, and she was trying to take it off, but she couldn't get it off from her. It was inside her scalp! I called her doctor and she removed it in about 15 minutes.