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I awoke one morning a week ago and saw a welt on the side of my neck and the skin was broken (maybe I scratched it a lot while sleeping).  Over the weekend it became very itchy and I eventually scratched it and the following day another welt appeared next to the original welt.  Today after getting home from work and doing yard work I noticed another welt and it looks like they are starting to blister.  Earlier today while at work I took some advil and that stopped the itching.  I came to the conclusion that there was inflamation and that's probably what caused the itching.  As for the welts and blisters, I don't know why I have these and looked on this site for answers.  I also have a lump above the welts close to my jaw line and I'm assuming a lymph node is swollen do to an infection.  If I don't see improvement in the next couple of days I'll see a doctor but after reading others posting, I'm assuming I'll have a doctor that won't know and want to put me on antibiotics and "go from there".  I know, swollen lymph nodes are to be taken seriously but as I said, I'm going to give it a few days and hopefully the advil helps and I'll start to heal.  Since the itching stopped, I feel that is a positive sign.  Good luck to you all and if you haven't tried advil (or generic like I took), maybe try that.