Deer ticks and lyme disease?

This morning when i woke up I noticed that I had a tick on myleg. i immediatly pulled it off with tweezers and I'm pretty sure it is a deer tick. Ihave no idea how long it's been there or where it came from. I have a couple questions about lyme disease. How long does it take for the symptoms to show? What is the percent of deer ticks that actually carry the disease? What are the chances that I will actually develop the disease?
I am sixteen and live in the norteast. The tick that bit me looked exactly like this: http://entomology.unl.edu/images/ticks/b...

Thanks

Hi, was the tick engorged? Did you save it to show your doctor. (you can save ticks by putting them in a well sealed ziplock bag or encasing them by sticking them to folded over scotch tape.)There are diseases other than Lyme that you need to be on the look out for.
Please go here to read all about it. The links on the left will have transmission, symptoms, etc. of all the tickborne diseases, not just Lyme. Hope you luck out this time, circle the area where you were bit with a sharpie, by the way, so when they ask where the tick was you can show them. If you use ballpoint it will wash off, so be sure to use something permanent. Go here for all the info you need:
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvbid/lyme/

the symptoms: you'll have pain in your chest and you'll get sick and pale, you can go to A hospital and get A test for it and it can come back and say negative and you can still have it, so if you do that then don't completely trust it, and if it bet you then it shood look like A target,....I hope this help't and you don't have it, it a bad thing to have...

I'm the parent of a 16-year-old girl who has been desperately ill with Lyme and co-infections for three years now. This is my advice to you. Go to the doctor and tell him you were bitten by a deer tick in a Lyme-endemic area. Say you want to be tested for Lyme, but REGARDLESS of the results of the test, you want a preventative course of doxycycline (it's an antibiotic). The test the doc is likely to order is called an ELISA test, and it is notorious for false negatives (meaning it says you don't have Lyme when you actually do.) If the tick in fact gave you Lyme, the best chance you have of getting rid of it is to start treatment immediately. Don't mess around. Symptoms you might develop, but not necessarily: a bull's-eye rash, flu like symptoms, severe fatigue, facial paralysis, headaches.

Good sources of info about Lyme and its co-infections:
http://www.canlyme.com
http://www.lymenet.com
http://www.lymeinfo.net
http://www.lymediseaseassociation.org
http://www.ilads.org
http://www.betterhealthguy.com
http://www.publichealthalert.com
http://www.freewebs.com/teenswithlyme
http://www.lymetimes.org

Lyme Disease is a tricky thing. It could take years for symptoms of Lyme Disease to show up. And it mimics a lot of other neurological diseases like multiple sclerosis. My mom has M.S. and was tested for Lyme Disease because we had received some info on it.
Anyway they say you will get a spot that looks like a bullseye where ever you where bit....which is not always the case. Oh and if you get tested at you local doctors office for Lyme they are not always right. You could get tested to soon after the bite for anything to show up. There is this one test that called the Western Blot that tests for Lyme it can be pretty pricey but its worth it. Because of the people I have met and heard of with Lyme said that the Western Blot was the only test that came back saying they were positive for Lyme.
So there is some info for you. Just do some research.