I'm just curious to see if this might be associated with Lyme?
I have a spot on my head that gets sore on and off for no reason. It's always the same spot but it's not always sore.
I did have a brain MRI done but won't get the results of that for several more weeks.
Thanks.
Posted by psano2 (Member # 11711) on :
I used to have that. I went away w/treatment.
Posted by imagine2 (Member # 3136) on :
I have these sore spots a lot. They usually accompany a headache. Always wondered if this was encephalopathy. Maybe someone else will come along with the answer.
Posted by MDW005 (Member # 22706) on :
I to have the sore spots with tenderness and becomes worse when headache begins.
Posted by 17hens (Member # 23747) on :
are you guys kidding? another thing from lyme? i've gotten these for years, not real often, but boy do they hurt! sore like someone grabbed a hold of my hair (always the same place) and tried to rip it out, but it started from a headache. is that what you mean? i had no idea... this stupid thing is soooo invasive!!
Posted by kissygoose (Member # 21314) on :
17hens...yes, I liken mine to having hit my head on something and having a bruise there except it's always on the same spot. It doesn't neccessarily coincide with a headache and can last weeks at a time.
Posted by justchugginalong (Member # 23309) on :
Question for kissy...
does it feel like something hit you on the head or does it feel like something about the size of a pencil eraser top trying to poke it's way out. From the inside going outward?
Just curious. I have these and for years now. Not always with a headache. One spot the worst spot of all developed into Alopecia Areata.
Posted by sutherngrl (Member # 16270) on :
I get these too. Like Kissygoose, I compare it to the feeling of my scap being bruised. Very sore!
Posted by glm1111 (Member # 16556) on :
It's an infection under the scalp. Most likely from parasites. I have/had this and when I took antiparasitic herbs and salt/c they formed bumps, then scabs and started pushing thru the scalp.
The top of my head became bright red. It is also where my LLMD identified a bullseye. If you haven't treated for parasites you probably should.
Gael
Posted by kissygoose (Member # 21314) on :
Just chugging...no it is usually about the size of a quarter and sore to the touch like I bumped it on something and there is a bruise there.
Last week it hurt real bad but this week it's gone. but that doesn't seem to line up with any of my other symptoms or headaches.
Gael...I will most definitely mention this to my LLMD when I see them for the first time.
Posted by mojo (Member # 9309) on :
I get what I call "hurty bumps" that are like bigger pimples on my scalp. They start to hurt then the bumps form, they get big and very sore then go away. Then it repeats.
I got this when I was on Cumanda and also when I was using an herbal remedy from a NP that included parasite treatment. I didn't get it from humaworm, though.
Sometimes I get facial acne when I rife for parasites. (and I'm 50!!)
Posted by IckyTicky (Member # 21466) on :
I get them, I've had it on and off for years. Sore spots like little locks of hair has been pulled. Mine isn't always in one spot, but sometimes in several places on my scalp.
I also have a deep ridge in my skull now.. it's weird. Like a sunken in indentation that is a few inches long. As if I'd been hit with something in the past, but I haven't.
Posted by healingtime (Member # 25002) on :
have it- just got worse yesterday so i'm happy to see a recent post about it. Like you Icky, mine isn't just in one spot but can move around- not incredibly painful but just sore like i've been hit there before- also may include a headache
If people have had this for years i suppose it is not something we should immediately get checked out? I did an MRI about 6 months ago anyway and that was fine.
glm1111- did you discover what kind of parasite does this to the scalp?
Posted by cactus (Member # 7347) on :
I had these too. They are gone now, after very thorough Lyme and co-infection treatment.
My LLMD said they are not uncommon in Lyme patients.
I think she said it's nerve pain - nothing unusual for me!
Posted by sutherngrl (Member # 16270) on :
I think for me it is nerve pain. Its not like a sore or bump, its more like a bruised feeling. It just feels sore!
Posted by kissygoose (Member # 21314) on :
ditto sutherngrl. It's very much like a bruise. Doesn't tend to bother me unless it gets touched. More annoying than anything.
Posted by Aimee (Member # 20946) on :
Count me in too - I get the sore spot on my head as well. They come and go, not always in the same spot and most often associated with a headache. Every so often it will feel like I've had a ponytail in too tight for too long in a certain spot but usually it feels like a bruise. Figured it was Lyme as it started with all my other symptoms. Hoping it goes away with treatment.
Posted by Haley (Member # 22008) on :
I have an odd sensation at the crown of my scalp. Sometimes it becomes a headache. When I flare my scalp flares.
This is how I was diagnosed with Lyme. It seemed so insignificant compared to everything else I was going through that I never mentioned it. I told my doc I had this weird sensation on my scalp and she said "hmmm that makes me think of Lyme."
That was the clue that got me my diagnosis 1 1/2 years after being bitten.
I feel that when my scalp symptom is gone I will be cured. It's just a feeling I have.
Posted by Faith6 (Member # 14072) on :
I brought my 19 year old daughter to the Dr last night because of having a bruised swollen feeling on her left scalp that then started moving down her head. She says it also feels like the nerves in that area are super sensitive.
She has had it for 6 days and actually wanted to see a doctor!!!
Today it is also in her neck. Her lymph nodes are swollen and her cheek is breaking out in sores more than pimples.
I brought her to an office I took her to a month or so ago (to an alternative doc who started her on some supplements), although she saw a regular doctor last night. He said it normal and if it lasts over a couple weeks to come back in.
I was thinking maybe the iron she was started on was feeding Babesia. I mentioned that and he said he didn't think it was an "exotic" disease!
It makes sense that it would be from detoxifying.
I think she has Lyme & Co and hopefully can convince her to see my LLMD this summer.
I have had similar swelling on one side only through out the years.
Posted by Beachinit (Member # 21040) on :
Mine happen on forehead, sometimes swell then go down, other times pimple size and small but still no reason to be there in the same place for so long. I can't help thinking the "chetes" can't stand the Antibiotics and want out of here. If so I take it as a good sign.