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Anyone get new bartonella stretch marks while on antibiotics for bart? Does this mean treatment is not working. [My son is on cipro for the bartonella... Dr J did not want to put him on levaquin]
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Geneal
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My neighbor's son is getting more stretch type marks while treating bartonella.
I think this means the treatment is working.
Hugs,
Geneal
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It's funny y'all should mention the stretch marks....
At first when I saw the post...I said to myself...WHAT!
Now what the heck do stretch marks have to do with lyme disease or co's. But I opened it up
and saw what you meant and quite honestly I had never noticed these things until recently myself.
The thing is when I got home from up north(actually while I was still there a couple days
staying in the same hotel room, (a rennovated motel6 to a Super8)....which I thought was clean.
I was bitten by bed bugs....like I mentioned in another thread somewhere....
Having thought I was thru with the lyme due to not having a flare up or noticed one
//// until this month unfortunately.....
I thought I only had Babs left....(Yeah I Know ONLY!>>>LOL)!
then I saw those pics of what Bart looks like, on the skin....which REALLY FLIPPED ME OUT!
Why?
Because before I had seen the pics....I had noticed a stripe of red leading away from the
bite sites of the supposed, bed bugs, and was worried that it was getting infected.
Usually when one sees red streaks from a site on the skin of a cut or bruise or bite it means infection is starting.
Well, crap.....
Eigher the doggone bedbugs can give you these red stripes as well...(they're arachnids as well I believe)
blood feeders that they are at least...or
Whenever I started doing my ALINIA to go after the BABS...
I shook up some Bartonella....and they decided to show up !
Been getting several itchy welts ever since I started using my Alinia....
Plus I have been using a steroidal cream BETAMETHASONE VALERATE USP, 0.1% topically of course,
which is not supposed to bother we lymies...
BUT....
Anyone else have any experiences with either....Bartonella and these streaks or
The Cream having any affect on our skin....
OR bedbugs causeing these streaks....
or any combination?
BABS being a parasite....and I was also utilizing a "super clense" herbal treatment...
Is it possible the streaks are a sign of the Babesia treatment?
Anyone with babs ever get the raised red itchy welts I've been getting...I mean I've been getting those since day one with this disease...
Just recently I've been trying to rid myself of those...
what I assumed were some type of co-infection...
that the Alinia was supposed to take care of....
according to my llmd in training...and a private study he's doing with a couple buddies of his...
zman
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my friend got itchy bumps from her bartonella
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clairenotes
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I, too, feel that the stretch marks signify that the treatment is working. My daughter did not have these marks until her first strong die-off reaction early in treatment. It is not possible to know for sure which infection was responsible, but we suspect bartonella. They faded away eventually.
Claire
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hiker53
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Bedbugs can cause similar streaks to bart.
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