EM RASH

 Can the bullseye rash reappear years after the initial infection?

 

Hi CajunGrl,

Love the name (my wife is from a little town outside of Baton Rouge). I'm not on treatment and have not been officially been diagnosed. I did have the ELISA test which came back 'equivocal', but I live in Montana so the doctor insists it can't be lyme because 'there is no lyme in Montana'. So I'm left searching for a doctor that will take this serious. I've actually been ill with lyme symptoms since my grade school years after a rash that appeared on my arm was diagnosed as ringworm. This past summer I became extremely ill again and was dianosed with mono but also broke out with numerous different rashes (hives, petechiae, cherry angiomas, skin tags) but the one that I'm curious about looks like the EM rash but it circles around the fingers on my hand, so it's difficult to tell. My doctor, of course, dianosed it as some kind of eczema or something, but the ointment he gave me for it does nothing. Over the years (I'm now 45 yrs old), I've had so many unbelievable symptoms (from temporary blindness to seizures) with no diagnosis except 'it's in your head, go to therapy'. So I guess I'm just experiencing the same journey so many of you have. I did research and found a Doctor in a city in Montana about 200 miles from where I live that I hear knows a lot about lyme and takes it seriously, so I'm going to give her a try. Thanks for the reply and take care.

PEACE

Thanks Lisa,
I have a symptom list that I keep and have continued to add on to over the years. I also have my medical files from the 'ringworm' rash up until now. I've been taking them to each appointment that I have. Unfortunately, after years of symptoms with no diagnosis, I've been labeled with an anxiety disorder and that seems to override, what I believe, to be overwhelming evidence of lyme or co-infections. I really don't understand why they won't investigate it more diligently when my medical records read like the symptoms list here on this site. From my limited knowledge, anxiety disorders don't cause bloodclots, migrating rashes, pleurisy, gout, temporary blindness, plaque psoriasis, siezures, joint pain so bad I can't shake hands or type without pain, temporary loss of control of the right side of my body etc....etc....etc. But I'm still alive and still love life, I would just like the quality of it to be a little better.

Thanks again,
PEACE

Hi BBCoach,

I just posted my own question about a recurrent "ringworm" like rash.  I was glad (and sad) to see your post.  Not too many others seem to have this symptom.  Since getting bit (last know bite) I have gotten a recurrent rash on the back of my hands, mostly in between my fingers.  The rash is small, redish (fades to purple) and is self limiting.  It was the first symptom to go away when I started ABX in Nov and the only objective symptom I had....unfortunatly, I posted today becuase it came back this morning (I had been rash free for four months). 

Good luck and if I can be of help, let me know.  If I could figure out how to send you a pic, I would so you could compare your rash to know for sure.