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Hi i managed to sort of get a photo of my new scratches which just turned up on Monday....Its all still sore, and I cant hardly touch my back where they are.
Any ideas, could this be Bartonella rash or just my brain doing it....
Sorry 2 photos joined, i had put arrows to show them on the other photo but it isnt showing up on my image.
I have about 4 ish, with stains around them.......
Any ideas, could this be Bartonella rash or just my brain doing it....
Sorry 2 photos joined, i had put arrows to show them on the other photo but it isnt showing up on my image.
I have about 4 ish, with stains around them.......
When I lived in TX, they don't believe in Lyme, I talked my GP into giving me doxy. It is suppose to help skin conditions and I had Bart's lesions ( doc didn't know that).
Even a low dose had me herxing big time. It does work but you will need a cyst buster too like Flagyl or tindamax.
Start the fight to eventually get better.
Feel better.
Even a low dose had me herxing big time. It does work but you will need a cyst buster too like Flagyl or tindamax.
Start the fight to eventually get better.
Feel better.
Try the treatment guidelines on the www.ilads.org website. Click on About Lyme and then Treatment Guidelines.
See if this link works.
http://www.ilads.org/lyme_disease/treatment_guidelines.html
Even if you end up on a different med soon, i think I would start the doxy. If the herxing is uncomfortable, you might back off on the dose a bit. If it feels life threatening, then stop and go to the ER. Usually herxes pass and then you start to feel a bit better. But don't let a herx lead you to stop completely.
Let the battle begin!
See if this link works.
http://www.ilads.org/lyme_disease/treatment_guidelines.html
Even if you end up on a different med soon, i think I would start the doxy. If the herxing is uncomfortable, you might back off on the dose a bit. If it feels life threatening, then stop and go to the ER. Usually herxes pass and then you start to feel a bit better. But don't let a herx lead you to stop completely.
Let the battle begin!
Hi yes they hurt really bad then they do calm down.
I can still see them after a week, but they are just there now.
And I feel a bit better in myself too...
I am hoping to start the antibiotics but after reading about doxy on here not sure its the right stuff...what do i do? My GP is not LLMD...she is just going by standard book and meds for lymes.
IF anyone could point me to the right information perhaps i could print it off for her to read...
I can still see them after a week, but they are just there now.
And I feel a bit better in myself too...
I am hoping to start the antibiotics but after reading about doxy on here not sure its the right stuff...what do i do? My GP is not LLMD...she is just going by standard book and meds for lymes.
IF anyone could point me to the right information perhaps i could print it off for her to read...
Asked my Lyme doc about her rashes yesterday. He said they could be Bart, but without Lyme it probably wasn't clinically significant. I told him that is what I guessed...that she got a variation of Bart, but her immune system took care of it.
I have Bart's and get rashes/lesions like that. I am in the hospital and got a rash behind one ear where the oxygen tubes go. They hurt at first then calm down.
What does your own Lyme doc say about your daughter's situation? Why not treat while the infection is quiet? -- I'm assuming the immune system keeps it under control but has not eradicated it, but I don't know what I base that assumption on.
My daughter got bit by a tick a year ago, and in hindsight, I believe she got Bartonella. She had an unexplained fever for a day, and then got a red rash on each of her flanks (from where the kidneys are in the back and around the side, down to the waist) with little scratch marks, about five on each side near the waist line.
The first time it showed up, she complained that it hurt and asked for acetaminophen. It was warm to the touch. It faded in a couple days. But it came back three more times in a month or two, each time less red and less painful.
About this time I was figuring out my own Lyme Disease and learning about tiny ticks that look like a speck of dirt in a kid's hair, and I freaked out, realizing she had been bit by a tick. Her pediatrician tested her at Quest and it came back negative. The rash hasn't returned, so I concluded that she had a variation that tests false negative and that it was mild. Her immune system seems to have taken care of it as she hasn't had any symptoms at all in the last 10 months. (I keep an eye out, though.)
I tell you this story not because I know how to diagnose Bart. Heck, I don't even know for sure if my daughter had it. But her scratches looked a lot like yours and hers were tender and the whole area was sore. On her first round of the rash, she said she would have to go to sleep on her back, as it hurt too much to lay on her sides.
I don't think your brain is doing it.
Doxy treats Bart early on, but you are way past that. My doc started me with Rifampin, then Levaquin and then later, moved on to an intracellular abx (first Biaxin then Clindomycin. If my kidneys can't keep up, I'll probably end up on Minocycline).
Some people only need one drug to treat it. Some kick it in a few months. Others need to treat it over a year. If you do have it, you don't know what you'll need until you do it.
The first time it showed up, she complained that it hurt and asked for acetaminophen. It was warm to the touch. It faded in a couple days. But it came back three more times in a month or two, each time less red and less painful.
About this time I was figuring out my own Lyme Disease and learning about tiny ticks that look like a speck of dirt in a kid's hair, and I freaked out, realizing she had been bit by a tick. Her pediatrician tested her at Quest and it came back negative. The rash hasn't returned, so I concluded that she had a variation that tests false negative and that it was mild. Her immune system seems to have taken care of it as she hasn't had any symptoms at all in the last 10 months. (I keep an eye out, though.)
I tell you this story not because I know how to diagnose Bart. Heck, I don't even know for sure if my daughter had it. But her scratches looked a lot like yours and hers were tender and the whole area was sore. On her first round of the rash, she said she would have to go to sleep on her back, as it hurt too much to lay on her sides.
I don't think your brain is doing it.
Doxy treats Bart early on, but you are way past that. My doc started me with Rifampin, then Levaquin and then later, moved on to an intracellular abx (first Biaxin then Clindomycin. If my kidneys can't keep up, I'll probably end up on Minocycline).
Some people only need one drug to treat it. Some kick it in a few months. Others need to treat it over a year. If you do have it, you don't know what you'll need until you do it.
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