Once I started getting sick I would periodically notice a tiny (the size of an eraser tip) purplish,reddish, brown bruise here and there. They don't hurt. I wasn't hit. They mostly appear on the inside of my arms and legs. I did notice one on my stomach,right under my rib cage, before. I've proven negative for lupus, MS, etc. Does anyone get these? Is this a symptom of lyme or a co-infection symptom?
Posted by Heleneh (Member # 21207) on :
I have lyme and coinfections. I get these when my platelets are low.
Posted by mixxster (Member # 22765) on :
I have a lot of Molluscum contagiosum, they look like moles and are contagious, particularly to people battling other infections. They start out for me looking like moles, a little redder or more pink. Some are flat. When they go away they leave annoying tiny bruise like marks wherever they where.
When they showed up in between my legs I got really worried that they were herpes or some STD. Here, they have defined white cores that can b pulled out. This is charactertistic of the infection I am talking about.
Keep us updated. Goodluck.
Hope that help, but you may be having a different issue. Maybe you should see a dermatologist like I did.
Posted by motownlyme (Member # 11485) on :
Yes. Mine look nothing like those I looked up mentioned by mixxter. They are exactly as you've described them. Perfectly round and they appear in odd places and out of the blue without any apparent injury.
I once had a perfect circle ring come up composed entirely of little round circles. LLMD took pics but didn't give me any explanation for them. I'll probably see them in a medicAL textbook about 25 years from now...
Posted by ticked-offinNc (Member # 15420) on :
My LLMD said,he/she is seeing alot more of this,and believes it is a result of European and American strains merging. Hope this helps.xoxo
Posted by IckyTicky (Member # 21466) on :
My son gets the on his spine. About the size of dimes. Circles and last a long time too. Come and go
Posted by kitty9309 (Member # 19945) on :
I used to have those as well. I described them as you do- the size of a pencil eraser.
They would just stick around 2-3 days and then vanish, not like a bruise fades to yellow.
I have not had these in many months, so maybe they are related to Lyme and/or Bart.
Posted by Sojourner (Member # 9424) on :
My husband has gotten these. Round deep colored bruises that take forever to resolve. They are not painful and don't fade, just disappear.
Posted by daystar1952 (Member # 3255) on :
I get these too from time to time. I understood that it was maybe babesia. Mine are like the size of nickles and dimes
Posted by nefferdun (Member # 20157) on :
Could be bartonella too.
Posted by JR (Member # 16898) on :
I used to get them all the time-just as you described, just chugging along,my LLMD said that sometimes Lyme shows up as a bruise rash. I would have multiple ones that even formed a circle-mostly on the inside of my legs. It was just something noted. And as someone said- I always had a low white cell count- so I don't know if that is related.
Posted by Tarav (Member # 22942) on :
I have not actually been diagnosed yet. (I am going through the process) But Thats what was happening to me.
I got them under my arms ( the area between the elbow and armpit) They were perfectly round, the size of a pencil eraser and a very BLUE.
They appeared one morning on the left arm and was goin by the evening.
Than the next day it was on my other arm. Nowhere else????
BUT I had went to my hemotologist the next week b.c of them and my platelets and white cells were fine????