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I took some pics of red lines that have been appearing along my spine. These don't look like the other bartonella stretch marks that I developed years ago, which had scarred skin. What do you make of them?
Ignore the faint lines on the left, those are scratches I inflicted myself after I noticed the 2 red lines...to compare and make sure I didn't accidentaly scratch myself there.
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do these come and stay? I always had heard that bart stretch marks came out and stayed out....anyone?
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I came up with something very similar but I dont know how to put images up.
It asks for a URL but there is no URL if its stored in Iphoto. Anyone help me with this so I can add it.
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Chamade, are you in bart treatment right now? Do you think that is why these appeared?
Have long have you had bart.....you mentioned some appearing a long time ago.
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CD57, yes I am in bart treatment now...using avelox(new generation quinolone) to target bart. Before I tried Levaquin and Rifampin but there was no reaction, certainly not a bart rash popping up. I chatted with another patient in Dr. S.H.'s office and avelox also helpem them a great deal with bart.I had the first rash in my late teens, but I didn't have the obvious neuro symptoms back then so we just wrote it off as some freak event.
I am 28 now and I think I got these bugs 18 years ago when they pulled an engorged tick from my back. Who knows, since I also played a lot with outdoor cats as a child and they used me as their favorite scratching post.
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