Psoriasis caused by lyme disease

My wife has psoriasis for about 13 yrs which affects her heels and hands. She had contracted lyme disease about the same time. She was treated successfully with a series of intravenous antibiotics for 90 days. She has been to numerous dematologists and other specialists looking for help without success. Does anyone know of treatments that have been successful in treating this disease or any doctors who specialize in the same. We reside in Naples Fl during the winter.

She had the Lyme disease first and the psoriasis followed. I will look for a LLMD In the Naples area and am also pursuing an infectious disease doctor.

Thanks Margaret! Posted a new topic as suggested. I am new to this forum and appreciate any help.

I have psoriasis and Lyme too. I am 40 and my Lyme was only diagnosed one year ago, but most likely I was infected as a fetus or maybe when I was 8 years old. I got psoriasis when I was 22. My psoriasis has always been pretty mild, only visible on the elbows, but I have always taken care to eat helthily etc.

Psoriasis is triggered by an imbalance in the Th1/Th2 (T helper cells), an important factor in the immune system. It is very likely that this was due to the constant stress on my immune cells, caused by the mostly dormant Lyme disease.

BiggGuyy, you mention that your wife was treated with 3 months of antibiotics. There are many antibiotics, but mostly penicillin, doxycyklin or ceftriaxone is used. If early treatment is done, this may sometimes be enough to cure the infection. But in many cases the antibiotic will only do with one form of the Lyme bacteria, but not affect the other form, which is able to survive and procreate inside cells, especially in the nervous system. Thus, a mono-treatment, especially wich doxycycline, is likely to change an early Lyme infection to neuro-Lyme, ofte to be dormant for some months or years, until it breaks out again when the body is weakened somehow due to stress, trauma or another disease.

Mainstream medical recommendations usually ignore the fact that Lyme bacteria can change their shape between spiral-formed, free moving bacteria (spirochetes), and small round bacteria (often called cysts) which will live inside cells or especially in skin and nerve cells (the brain). Thus, mainstream doctors will prescribe single-remedy antibiotic cures which only affect the spirochetes. Doxycycline has been showed in a study to only kill spirochetes, or rather, not kill them, but cause them to swiftly change their shape to round bodies and actually increase in number. Moreover, many antibiotics will not pass into the brain, so they will only hunt the blood bacteria and this will of course turn the brain into a safe haven for the infection. It is easy to understand that after ending the cure, the brain is now the new centre of infection.

Alternative Lyme doctors are well aware of this and will always prescribe at least two antibiotics simultaneosly, one to attack the spirochetes and another to attack the round bodies. Also, the treatment is to be continued until all symptoms of active infection are gone.

I have been on multi-remedy treatment for half a year now, but unfortunately only as pills, as can't find any doctor to give me intravenous treatment. For very short periods I have been on doxyxycline only because I had run out of other meds. Doxy was absolutely terrible and gave me increased nerve pain aswell as strong brain symptoms. (I didn't want to prolong this to weeks just for testing out, so I quickly managed to get other meds.) I don't doubt that single-remedy doxy is a very harmful tratment when you have late-stage Lyme, i.e. neuro-Lyme. At least my own experience fit very well with the newest studies about the effect of doxy on the bacteria. (Eva Sapi et al.)

Nobody knows for sure why sun is beneficial to psoriasis, but it could simply be the vast amount of vitamin D that is created by sun exposure. I try to get a lot of sun during summer, and tanning beds during winter, but no more than once a week (I wouldn't like to get skin cancer). Vitamin D supplements are also fine, be sure to have your Vitamin D levels checked.

I have lyme and psoriasis. I've tried numerous things to keep the psoriasis at bay but nothing helped. I recently removed gluten from my diet and my psoriasis is improving. It hasn't completely gone away but it is a bit more manageable now.

Stanizlav, I would suggest that you start a new thread with your question so that it will get more views and the title will tell people that it's not about psoriasis. More people take vitamin D than have to deal with psoriasis with Lyme.