I have the white lumpy things. But hers have decreased?? That's good. The ones i have seem to be permanent.

Can you get her to take oral abx?

I will guess that these are small pimple like things that come and go. If so I have seen that on a number of Lyme patients, including my self. Some of these people where mono pathegen Lyme (no coinfections). They seem to track the Lyme cycles to a very high degree.

The best that we could collectivley figure out was that they are due to some endocrine effect affecting hormone production. People without Lyme also seem to get them so I don;t think that it is Lyme specific. It would interesting to see how many other people have seen this effect. i have also noticed that skin tags also seem to come and go with lyme cycles but I suspect this is caused by some other mechanism.

As far as the heart stuff goes, I was in the past getting periodic AV block. It is very characteritic in that it feels like the pulse rate goes to 1/2 the normal rate. This would typically happen when I layed down.

I figure that the change in the load to the heart as a resutl of not having to pump the blood up the head casues some type of disturbance in the hearts dynamics that results in the AV block starting. Along the same lines, the dilation of blood vessels (with a shower) or change in blood flow to muscles may casue the same thing. Once I was on IV the problem slowly disappeared. They DID come back when I relapsed after stoppng IV. It is not entirely clear why but what is certain is that other symptoms did re-occur after stopping IV ( This was a quantitative measurement , not a subjective one) so sowthing casued the disease process to restart after a few weeks.

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Originally posted by david1097:
. Along the same lines, the dilation of blood vessels (with a shower) or change in blood flow to muscles may casue the same thing.

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I knew I had read something like that.

Which abx was your mother on?