a friend of mine is having a hard time registering on her computer for this site. we both have long term lyme. i am posting for her and am sorry if that is not permitting.
she recentlly completed a 5 week course of oral doxicycline, then switched to oral ceftin. the color in her thumb nail beds changed about day after she switched to ceftin. it's growing out from the cuticle to clear again, but the dr. was concerned and had her do a kidney sonogram today.
her thumbs were the fingers she had neuro symptoms in years ago; now the lyme is back and these new "symptoms" have cropped up.
anyone else experience this or have any idea how or if this is lyme/antibiotic connected.
thanks. SLH
Posted by Carol in PA (Member # 5338) on :
SLH, strange that someone should post about this since I just wrote to a friend about a similar thing...... although, it was my toenails, not my thumb ``nail beds''......
After an accident this summer, I could not cut my own toenails, so I had a lady at a hair salon do it. I warned her that my Big Toe nails were really thick and yellow-brownish and hard to cut, and even after soaking my feet, she had to use both hands to cut those nails. The nails have been odd and discolored for a long time....
She looked at my nails and said that she hadn't seen anything like them, but was sure that it wasn't some kind of nail fungus (which is what I thought it was). She said I actually have 2 nails growing right on top of each other.
But then she pointed out that at the very base - at the cuticle - my nails have started to revert back to `normal'; there is a ridge there, and the new nail is only ONE nail, and it is all nice and pink and not discolored!!!
I have not been on any antibiotics at all - just classical homeopathic remedies and a combination cell salt product called BioPlasma..... and come to think of it, my homeopath told me that I'll know when I can take less of the BioPlasma, when my nails and hair start looking healthy and normal.
So, that's my story..... not sure if it helps.
I hope your friend can get registered here. There have been some odd problems with this website the past several months.
Tracy
Posted by tailz (Member # 10014) on :
Wow. I had onycholysis back in my 20's. A few of my fingernails on my one hand started to separate from the nail bed, and I had to wrap my fingers in bandages until the nails grew back. They weren't even inflammed - they just started to lift up for no apparent reason.
I looked it up and it says that females are more prone to this and that it can indicate a hyperthyroidism.
Yeah - females are more prone to this because more females have electromagnetic-field-induced Lyme from cell phone towers.
My one little toe nail though has been thick ever since I was a kid. Once things went crazy though, all my toenails got thick and yellow.