Does anyone know if shin bone pain usually only found in bart or is this something that can be found with lyme?
Posted by djf2005 (Member # 11449) on :
not too sure but i have it....
id like to know too
hang in there
Posted by map1131 (Member # 2022) on :
Everything I've experienced and read over the years, says bart.
Pam
Posted by savebabe (Member # 9847) on :
Yup....bart symptom.
Posted by momo4 (Member # 14886) on :
Only reason i'm asking is because my first symptoms in 2001 were that i felt like someone was repeatedly kicking me in the shins. I tested positive for lyme then and was treated only for lyme. I was never tested for bart at the time and now my predominent lyme symptoms are somewhat back with a few differences.Now I have GI issues.
Posted by sixgoofykids (Member # 11141) on :
My GI issues were also from bart.
Posted by SouthernCO (Member # 11167) on :
Was diagnosed with Lyme, babesiosis, and CP via blood tests, but not with bart.
In my case the shin pain is bilateral. Per a neurologist's EMG, I have bilateral L5 radiculopathy; i.e., there is nerve damage in the spine affecting the L5 nerve which in turn affects the nerve traveling down next to the shin bone. Also, had a discogram which confirmed the nerve damage at L5-S1. The EMG and discogram were done after chronic Lyme set in but before diagnosis.
Wonder if I might also have bart.
The pain, numbness, and tingling affects the outside halves of the legs from the knees down.
As someone mentioned, I have always described the pain as the rresidual feeling of being hit on shins and knees with a blunt object.
Posted by momo4 (Member # 14886) on :
SouthernCO, Were you ever tested for bartonella.
Posted by SouthernCO (Member # 11167) on :
momo:
Dr. M. in CO tested me right before he closed his practice. Since he was a very good Dr., I think he must have tested for bart.
Thanks and best of luck.
Posted by momo4 (Member # 14886) on :
Thanks vjb ,
I go to see a LLMD next week and will address this issue then. BTW what treatments are you on for the bart? Thanks again,Ginny
Posted by map1131 (Member # 2022) on :
I've tested negative for bart by both Igenex '03 and regular old lab in my city just recently. Doesn't mean that I don't have bartonella.
It just means that lab, that day, that tube of blood, that strain they were looking for is negative in the opinion of the person doing the test?
But I'd bet the farm if I wanted to spend big bucks, a lab would eventually find bartonella bacteria/antibodies in a tube of my blood. If that lab happened to be able to identify every bart bacteria strain out there?
What's my chances? Forget it. I'll just treat as if my many symptoms point to bartonella? Which they do.
Pam
Posted by SouthernCO (Member # 11167) on :
vjb, map, and momo:
I had not even considered bartonella. Sounds as if I should take a very serious look as well because of the shin pain.
Great advice.
Dave
Posted by lorenzfam (Member # 14938) on :
I had shin pain, in what would have been my 2nd year of having Lyme/co-infections, although I haven't officially been diagnosed yet.
My right shin hurt SO bad and the flesh around it became very lumpy and sore. My dr. did a biopsy of it. I don't remember what he said it was (looks like I'll have to do some research and find out), but he gave me some antibiotics to take and it helped.
I still have shin pain, but not quite like that first time. Now that I have read posts on here, I am positive it was Bart. I am going to find out what the exact diagnosis was then and see what he treated me with.
Hope your pain gets better!
Posted by lorenzfam (Member # 14938) on :
Me again. I called the doctors office today, and they don't have records that far back...they destroy them after 7-10 years. So I have no records of all my previous symptoms! Yikes!
My mom has Lyme disease as well, and she mentioned she had the lumpy and sore shin, too. She said now that she has been on the IV abx, it's starting to go away.
I don't know if it's shin splints or WHAT, but it is apparant that Lyme can cause it. I don't know what it is, but glad that it is gone! I hope that you can get some relief for the pain! Good luck!
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