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I started noticing a lot of red petechial bumps all over my abdomen and various areas of my body.
Does anyone have a clue of what causes these. I was wondering if it is related to Babesia or just another lyme symptom. Posts: 131 | From Maryland/USA | Registered: May 2011
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What are petechial bumps. I think I have them also, but I didn't know what they were called.
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randibear
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mine are little red dots. some of them turn dark purple. like someone took a pen and went boink, boink, boink.
they're all over.
doc said they were from aging, but i don't think so.
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I had what you could call petechial bumps (small red bumps that did not itch and did not have any fluid in them) on my triceps, or the backs of both my upper arms, for years when I had active LD and bart.
I saw a dermatologist for another problem and asked him about them, but he said they did not know what caused them. The bumps did not bother me in any way and were not that noticeable; I just wondered what they were or what might have caused them.
What I DO KNOW is that they went away after I finished 2 years of abx treatment for LD and bart.
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I have them too and my LLMD said they were likely from Bart. Mine migrate. I usually have a few on my back but my husband said they aren't always in the same places. Strange.
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lpkayak
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i was told babs and told "we do't know" by regular derm
i have continue d to get more and more as time goes on
i have had a lot of tx and my WB is now neg...but who know what that means
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Thank you for the replies. I was thinking it was a co-infection.
MamaBear11, I read your blogspot and I will keep you and your family in prayer.
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map1131
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Bart from what I've researched but who the heck knows. Mine happened when I was 42.
I'm smart enough to know that they weren't age spots. They happened the summer I got dozen nymph tick bites and three weeks later had the flu-like illness from he!!. Might be babs, that's still in question these days.
But aging they are not. Quack quack
Pam
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