Topic: HELP - Do you get headaches and feel sick with ringworm?
bg2711
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Hi everyone. My daughter had a red rash last month that I was sure was a lyme rash because as the rash got bigger she had a terrible headache, felt sick took her to the duck and she said ringworm. I said I think its' lyme because she has flu like symptoms.
She already has lyme by the way. the rash was about the size of a quarter. She felt sick for about a 1 -1/2 then kind of okay. now another rash on same arm that looked like a bite now is starting to get circular and she has bad headache and feels sick again.
Now I can't find anything on any sites that says you should feel sick when you have ringworm. Does anyone know anything about ringworm and symptoms.
We also have a new puppy, so i am taking that into consideration too, but the sickenss thing keeps saying Lyme to me.
I started her on antibiotics anyways cuz I think the doc is really really a duck when she knows our family history of all of us having Lyme. I AM SO mad right now. I could spit nails.
bg2711
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Hi breathwork,
Thanks for the quick response. My daugher is 17 yrs. old. She has had lyme for about 10 years. Off and on antibiotics as her s is usually easily controlled.
As soon as i saw the rash and she was ill, i really thought lyme and stressed to the doctor that she shouldn't feel ill with ringworm. thanks for your sharing that you weren't ill with ringworm. I thought it should only be topical too. ( I know it is just a fungus)
Yes we got lots of pictures and measured it. These docs are so..........stupid. We don't travel to the LLLMD anymore. I had a doc that we were using here for awhile, then found a new one who turns out is a duck. Barb
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breathwork
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Oh yeah....get the puppy tested for lyme! I was bitten and reinfected while walking my 3 month old springer two years ago....
I had a big EM rash on my thigh and my LLMD thought that I had been reinfected...also had babs again.
BUT, my friends and family weren't as understanding until I had the puppy tested and she had lyme. In puppies even a very low titre is cause for treatment.
Ours was on three months of doxy. She's two years old now..and doing great. And, my friends were more accepting that I had been rebitten and reinfected when she too was positive...
I don't blame them for their skepticism...It had been a long haul with my initial infections, and often those on the outside just can't appreciate what this is all about.
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Back in 1993, when living in SC I developed tiny red rings that spread all over my body....with them I was feverish and in general not well... I had a kitten at the time that had alst tested positive for ring worm, so when I went to the walk in they said that is what it was and gave me cream to put on all the sites. I was lterally covered from head to toe...It took several months before all the rashes completely dissapeard.
A few months after that was when I started developing all my problems that led me through years and years of Dr's and tests too finally be diagnosed with Lyme 4 years later and incredibly debilitated.
To this day I am not sure whether the rings I had was a Lyme type infection, or if the ringworm infection lowered my immunity enough for the dormant Lyme to become active...
Whichever the case, It definelty made me veru ill and was a catalysts for other things.....
I would definetly continue on abx and make sure she is tested for other infections.
bg2711
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HI Christine,
Thanks for sharing, sorry you have been down the long road too. Did you get all the rings at once or did it happen over a period of time.
She only had the one the size of a quarter it cleared up well stil scared/discolored looking now and now another has cropped up 3 weeks -1 month later.
SInce we have the new puppy, it definately put a twist on things and made things more confusing. Yes I am keeping her on antibiotics just in case. Barb
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