So, I clog here at my university. It feels like I have shin spints when I really do not. Even waking up and walking to math this morning it hurts the front of my legs, like I have shin splints. I skipped my clogging group dance test because of how bad it was hurting to walk with that feeling. I do not know why it has been like this for a couple of weeks.
I just came up positive for only one co infection so far: Ehrlichia. I have not been tested for other Co infections ( MY infectious doc wouldnt)
Also, I am turning 20 and ALL of a sudden since I have been sick I am getting Vericose veins. Some look red and are short and rod like. On my stomach, thighs, calfs, and ankles. My OBYN thinks its due to some kind of infection.
Does anyone else have this and any info if this could be ANOTHER co infection.
Thanks!
Posted by glm1111 (Member # 16556) on :
Tell your doctor to consider cutaneous larva migrans caused by a parasitic worm.
Google it and you will see a lot of info about this. Lyme disease has a Major parasite/worm component that is often overlooked.
Type parasites and Lyme into search bar here.
Gael
Posted by LightAtTheEnd (Member # 24065) on :
I think bartonella can possibly cause shin pain and a stretch mark-like rash or maybe other kinds of rashes. Does anybody know?
Posted by Lemon-Lyme (Member # 19229) on :
I suggest getting checked for all co-infections. The shin pain thing corresponds frequently with bartonella.
Do you happen to have sore heels too?
And you can test via local labs, although a negative doesn't necessarily mean you don't have it. But I frequently get heel/shin pain, and tested positive for bartonella using a local lab.
And it's idiotic for a doctor not to test for other co-infections, if you tested positive for ehrlichia and lyme already.
Get a new doctor, ideally a LLMD.
Posted by Keebler (Member # 12673) on :
- Shin pain of the TIBIA BONE is described in detail here:
A very helpful diagnostic maneuver is palpatory tenderness of the medial tibia shaft due to periostitis (inflammation of the tissue around the bone if not the bone itself).
Periostitis is also common in another spirochetal disease, syphilis (Textbook of Medicine, Ed: Kelley, 1989, p. 1587) and is responsible for the bone pain that both syphlitic and Lyme patients experience.
Tenderness is easily elicited in 95% or more of LD patients simply by pressing the bony aspect of the thumb joint against the medial aspect of the tibia about 3-6 inches above the ankle.
** The intensity of the pain experienced by the patient can vary, but is often exquisite and will cause the leg to recoil abruptly. **
The pain often lingers after this procedure. In a minority of LD cases, periostitis is generalized and I have appreciated skull involvement in a few instances. A small proportion of LD patients have periostitis.
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[ 03-12-2010, 03:46 AM: Message edited by: Keebler ]
Posted by mcg08002 (Member # 24617) on :
Yeah, I get pain in my heel and soles.
Posted by lymebytes (Member # 11830) on :
oh my gosh! I had those little rod-like red veins too. I posted about them about 9 months ago.
They appeared suddenly, then went away in about 3 weeks. I think they flared from treatment, then the treatment took care of them.
I think it might have been bartonella.
I am also in my 20's. Good luck!
Posted by Hoosiers51 (Member # 15759) on :
This is my post (link at bottom) from a long time ago....read it...it is CREEPY how similar it is to yours. If you scroll down on that link to where I reply to my own post, you'll see I describe them as tiny rods.
In the title I call them purple, but then in the body I say they are actually more reddish.
And I also had them in all the same places you have yours!
I think what brought them out was adding the Plaquenil to the Zithromax I was already on, b/c Plaquenil makes Zith penetrate better.
After that herx, my moods stabalized and so I was a ton better psychologically after. So I am almost 100% sure it was all a Bart herx from the Plaquenil. I actually was able to stop my mood stabalizer after that herx. The weird veins that appeared did go away.
So I think it is some kind of infectious flare or the result of an infection.