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Before I knew I had lyme, (around 11th grade) I started getting these weird and painful red/purple knots on my fingers and then my toes.
I went to a dermatologyst, and they did a biopsy. She found that it was Vasculitis, but could not give me any reason for it.
Then under the vasculitis skin was a big hard knot. After a period of time (sometimes a 3 weeks, sometims 2 months) they would go away.
These bups are SOO painful. I would end up wacking them on everything. Once I wacked one on my finger on a door handle and the pain was so bad I fainted.
I had not thought about these knots in a while untill recently my mother found something online about it being related to Lyme Disease. It said that people start getting these things about 8 years after having lyme.
Now I am curious, Has anyone else experienced this?
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My husband has red swollen fingers and some spots that are very very tender. Sometimes the spots open up and become open sores which take a long time to heal. The doctors consider it a type of vasculitis or vasculitic like.
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It hasn't stopped yet but he's "only" nine months or so into treatment. Other things have gotten better so I'm still hopeful this will get better too.
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I am so glad to hear things are getting better for him! For me the knots were never a constant problem, they would come and go and did not happen too often. I am sure this symptom will eventually leave him soon!
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I had this on my toes about 4-5 years ago. One of many "strange symptoms" that came and went without any satisfactory explanation from the ducks. So, that happens about 8 years in, huh? I'll have to do some looking back to see whether that jives with when I think I was infected.
Sometimes my hands looked almost ACA-like, but that could have been vasculitis also. I just never asked any medical type about it because they never knew what was wrong with me anyway!
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