Re: Misinformation about Lyme Rash

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Mike,

Your point is well taken about not delaying medical investigation

with a guessing game. Though my neurologist wanted to do lengthy

tests for MS and lupus, as well as Lyme, I went ahead and contacted

a Lyme Disease doctor in San Francisco, one whose name was

recommended on another board. He has a long waiting list, but seemed

willing to try to squeeze me in sooner.

Thanks for the thorough description of your rashes. I think my main

blotch was no larger than 4 " . It covered the front of my lower

shin. I don't remember the sensation, whether it was burning or

itching or both, just that it was not bad for what the thing looked

like. I also developed a raised area at the bite mark later on. To

this day, I have a bump of darkened skin at the site. The dead skin

kept forming in layers that sloughed off then reformed.My

dermatologist said it was definitely the result of an insect bite.

But like most people he believes that if I did not have a bull's eye

around it, it could not possibly be a Lyme tick.

I also had some red splotches on my left arm. But I really did not

pay much attention to it. I thought it must have been a spider bite.

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> 1) Diseminated: All over body. Back, front, head, all limbs,

> 2) Rash at bite site: r.rear thigh, 4 " above knee. Vertical

length = 4-6 " ; Width = spread across back of thigh. Sensation =

burning to degree of moderate sunburn = at this site only. Actualy

bite mark = raised w/ 'volcanic'Pit(vesiculation), around which a

ring of dead skin formed.

> Sizes = variable, w/ largest rash at bite site; second largest

appeared on on lumbar-thoracic spinal area. Shape = Ellipsoidal. This

latter rash had an inner, darker ellipsoidal shape.

> Color = uniform red; not one bullseye rash.

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[Guest guest]

I have a rash constantly. I do have lyme have a positive PCR. I am seeing a

dermatologist today for it. Probably not Lyme Literate but the itching is

driving me nuts. I know many of you know what I mean. Yes I can say you

get all kind of rashes that come and go and some come more than they

go....lol...

Cyntha Landon in Lititz, PA

[ ] Misinformation about Lyme Rash

> Could someone tell me if these two sets of rashes sounds like a Lyme tick

> rash?

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> The rash I now revisit in my memory appeared on the front of my shin

about

> 3-1/2 years ago. The location was just below where an athletic sock cuff

> would have ended. It was a growing red blotch without any clearing in the

> middle and the center was a very tiny pit, smaller than a pinhead, that

was

> black. The blotch looked as if someone had thrown a baseball at my shin

and

> it left a read mark. After the blotchiness began to fade, another skin

> condition developed. The sides of my lower leg turned a splotchy brown and

it

> quickly took on the appearance of skin that was wrinkley, as if in a late

> stage of sunburned skin about to peel.

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> A few months after this, I had numbness /prickliness over the tops of my

> feet, in particular on the right.

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> Does Lyme usually cause other rashes to occur after the primary infection?

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> Is there a tendency to have more symptoms closer to the original site of

the

> infection?

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> Also, under the site of the first rash, I often have bone pain, a

> concentrated form of achiness. Is that typical of Lyme Disease infection

> sites?

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