Update on my rashes...

The ACA returns when I stop antibiotics... but goes away while on them... hmmmm.. go figure.

The only marks on this old gal right now is the remains of the last brown recluse spider bite. Otherwise... I am completely "normal".

OK... not completely normal.. but as darn close as a sweet thing like me can get...

I say that in a joking fashion... I am afraid I have been a touch grumpy lately...

Soooooo... don't be messing with me... hehehe

That is amazing... however.. dang me...

I am soooo tired I can't keep my eyes open.. but I have tried thinking alot about it... and my first thoughts.. and I shouldn't be allowed to have any as you can see I am too slow and unfamilair.....

Is some type of scarring tissue (?)...or poison oak... which I doubt... then a lice or chiggar line or mark?

See.. I have NO clue. I have seen lines like that...

I will think some more.. not that it will help... but will try.

Great picture though...

Here are a couple sites I searched through and just thought it might interest you. NOT that the rash is any of these.. but a couple of good sites for finding something like it maybe??

I am sorry I am so dunce tonight... I think it runs in my family... hehehehe

I am editing to say I can't seem to get the sub-sites to "work".. but the main sites should.... ok?

Main site... then subsites....

http://www.dermis.net/index_e.htm
http://www.dermis.net/doia/image.asp?zugr=d?=e&cd=47&nr=78&diagnr=692982

http://www.dermis.http://www.dermis.net/doia/mainmenu.asp?zugr=d?=enet/doia/m
ainmenu.asp?zugr=d?=e

Main site.. then sub sites...
http://www.vh.org/adult/provider/dermatology/PietteDermatology/BasicDermatology.htm
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http://www.vh.org/adult/provider/dermatology/PietteDermatology/BlackTray/16arms.htm
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http://www.vh.org/adult/provider/dermatology/PietteDermatology/BlackTray/17Lichen.ht
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http://www.vh.org/adult/provider/dermatology/PietteDermatology/BlackTray/27PoisonIv
y.html

, maybe them drugs are affecting you in a strange way??!!
Hey come to think of it I could stand a few of them right now.. bye bye..

September 2004

It's BACK!

I have been watching it slowly appear.

The skin on the backs of my hands is so paper thin, it is spooky!

My hands look like there is NO fat or muscle tissue in them. Like a skeleton.

Wish my butt would loose some of that fat too.. while the keets are at it!

HA!

If I try to pinch the skin on my hands or feet.. it is only about 1/10 of an inch thick before you hit bone. No.. it's about 1/10 of an inch thick.. at the MOST.. with 2 layers pinched together.

The veins stick out like they are going to fall off my hands. When pinching the skin... it takes a long while to move back into place.. like it was made of silly putty.

It feels kinda "rubbery".

This time it is both hands and both feet at the same time!

The colors aren't as noticable because I am very dark skinned after the summer.. so a bit harder to see.

Mostly I see pale white against the darker skin... especially around the knuckles.

But the skin is so wrinkled and "lined". Like hmmmmm..

Kinda like taking a very fined tooth comb through some nice sand and seeing the deep lines it leaves across it.. in perfect distance from each other.. so close the lines are almost on top of each other.

I THINK the actual ACA rash is starting to show up on my right arm again... but again.. the tan is making it hard to tell.

And YES! If I get the camera working...

I WILL take pictures. LOTS of pictures!!!

I am also waiting to see if the rash gets VERY noticable... and if so.. will rush down to the dermatologist who said they would do a biopsy for me.

Of course this is the same one who tried to convince me that Bartonella was the "technical name" for Lyme disease.

Oh well!

Anyhow.. this may explain my symptoms coming back on me.. and I will hit the pennicilin soon if LLMD approves.. but I want to wait and see if I can't first get photos and biopsies so we can PROVE this rash is from Lyme and is NOT scleroderma... so don't be telling on me! hehehe

I KNOW we have that strain of Lyme here.. we have noted about a dozen or so folks here at Lyme Net who have the same thing happening... but nobody is listening.

Most folks (medical reports) say it is ONLY in Europe.. but I know better!

And I've never been to Europe...

Not till they build me a bridge will I go!

I am still horrified about all the folks with Lyme being misdiagnosed.. at places like Hopkins and Robert Wood Johnsons... with scleroderma and/or Renauds Syndrome.. being put on STEROIDS! We MUST prove it is Lyme so they will be treated PROPERLY!!!

And the scleroderma patients are reported to die within about 5 years with this condition...

NOT GOOD!!!!!!!

IDIOT DUCKS!

We've GOTTA do something about this!!!

So gang... pray for a pretty rash this time. And a good biopsy report.