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Topic: Blood in the nose

LarsFN
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Every morning when I blow my nose there is blood in the things coming out of my nose. Is this common with Lyme or could this indicate other issues ?.

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Caryn
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this is very interesting as unexplained nose bleeds are what lead my mother to the local hospital emergency room. other than the champaigne toast at a wedding or new years, my mother did not drink. so she was very offended when the ER nurses implied she had nose bleeds due to excessive drinking. the suburban hospital that almost killed me after severing a vein ( or artery ) i later found out when they took my tonsils out.

she was then dx with multi-myeloma. what i thought i had since i seemed to inherit my mother's symptoms, and my disease had the same symtoms and progressed like hers. they gave her prednisone, which is a corto-steroid, and i now know is deadly for me. her symptoms seemed to be in remission for quite a few months. then she became gravely ill and died not too much later.

i'm not sure if she was given too much morphine by misake (which she took for severe pain. i have fentynil patches for severe pain. and no, they don't kill that much of the pain. but i know i have lyme now, not multi-myeloma. and i now know i am treatable and have been for many yrs.) oh, and my mother got injections of morphine that relatives with no medical training were autherized to give by the dr/drs.

multi-myeloma has been linked to lyme. and i know of a couple of people that were mis-dx with multi-myeloma and instead turned out to have lyme. and when i posted here about it, someone remembered there was someone who posted here who was mis-dx with multi-myeloma.

i now have proof i have lyme and had it while my daughter was a nursing baby and before i had my son (a congenital lyme baby). i had gotten it so many times, we unwittingly photo d me with the rash. but i have an I.D specialist taunting me in my records "no dr has ever seen the rash, and she has no photos of it." when i found the photos, i realized i had passed it on to my children.

we had my daughter in a private quaker school because of her symptoms due to un-dx lyme. one of her classmates moms was a fellow mom i was confiding in. and a pediatric infectious disease specialist. my "fibromyalgia" had too many .... well, starting to write a book here. you need to see a truely lyme literate medical dr and know about testing and what labs to use.

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ShadowHawk
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One of the first symptoms I had with the onset of Chronic Lyme was nosebleeds and bleeding gums, as well as coughing up blood. I was extremely fatigued as well and all my Drs. thought it was a viral infection that just wouldn't go away.

So yeah...It makes sense to me that nosebleeds could be a symptom.

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Carol in PA
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Lars,
If I understand you correctly, you are saying that you have blood tinged mucous when you blow your nose in the morning.
Not nose bleeds.

I don't know if this has anything to do with Lyme Disease. I've had it for many years, but then, I've apparently had LD for many years.

It sounds like some capillaries break, and mix with the mucous. I don't think it's anything to be alarmed about.
Does your blood clot quickly if your skin is injured?

Carol

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agszafran979
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quote:
Originally posted by LarsFN:
Every morning when I blow my nose there is blood in the things coming out of my nose. Is this common with Lyme or could this indicate other issues ?.

Lyme or no Lyme, I've had this problem ever since I could remember (like age 10 or so). It mainly occurs in winter when the indoor air is very dry, or when I go somewhere like the Mojave Desert for a few days. I think that my sinus linings are drying out and cracking, causing them to bleed a bit.

It's been 15 yrs, and I'm still alive to tell about it ;^)

- Drew -

[This message has been edited by agszafran979 (edited 31 March 2005).]

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