Loss of collagen

Shelly:
I have the same problem. It is so horrible looking. I dont have any solutions. Maybe somebody else will chime in.

How long have you had lyme and at what age did you notice the change in your skin?

Take vit E, fish oils, and vit A and K. Those all help skin and collegan. If you don't mind my asking whatvis your age. When people say "old" I think truely old.

So you aren't old... ;) how did your parents skin look in their 40s? That's a good indicator. Did you sin yourself a lot in your young adulthood? I sure did! All the things above can help and there are safe non invasive collagen printing treatments. I'm sorry you are feeling your skin looks poorly it's hard enough feeling sick and ten feeling you don't look good either but I'm sure others don't see you that way.

Lol!!!! I have puffy eyelids right now x 1 wk but it's been intermittent over the past few years. It had never lasted more than a day before now. I saw an eye doc this am and ruled out thyroid eye disease. It really bothers me cosmetically and I hope it resolves. If not I will be having it "fixed". Bad enough to feel all jacked up from lyme, but the to look like poo...... Um no thanks in my thirties and not ready for hooded eyelids. I am a skin care freak, however I am against harmful injectables and elective surgeries. For the most part.

I use unrefined organic coconut oil on my skin. The stuff is really fantastic. Its helping with the constant itching and does not cause pimples. Coconut oil inhibits Candida as well. The probiotics Im taking also help destroy the Candida, which my LLMD could visibly see was all over my body.

Try it and see if it works for you.

That's really weird as I just noticed literally just this morning that the skin under my eyes was really crepy looking. I had an eyelash there, and when I pinched it off with my fingers, my skin stayed there in a little crepy pinched up pile! I've never noticed it do that before! I had to flatten it back out! And when I think about it, my eyes are getting more hooded and old looking, but I just put that down to being ill generally. But maybe it is a lyme thing, where it's taking the collagen? :-/. Great . . .

I know some people are freaked out about Lyme "feeding" on sugar, magnesium, manganese and collagen.

The thing is, you need these things too. I eat lots of lots of gelatin for my collagen. My eczema goes away in a matter of days and I just feel stronger when I do.

Haven't been diagnosed with anything but am very worried about Lyme or other chronic infections. In the past year I've noticed my collagen has visibly decreased; wrinkles, loose skin, undereye bags, slow healing wounds, and loss of flexibility. I have been taking NeoCell Collagen supp w/ hyaluronic acid. But if I've got Lyme/similar, maybe there's no point trying to rebuild at this point. (33/male.)

Look into the ACA rash - that's what the loss of collagen creates.
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I have read so many things that are supposed to help this, and although I did try a few, none helped me much, other than the coconut oil to help keep my skin moisturized. The thing that helped the most was healing from Lyme. My skin no longer has the crepy look to it anywhere.

Hello all! I'm doing some research into Lyme disease and how it affects the collagen in the body and came across this thread! (better late than never right?!)

I have a friend that has been diagnosed, and I have a pure liquid collagen (that actually tastes amazing) product that I thought may reduce her discomfort and then once I started researching I've come to realize how, and several more ways it could assist in some healing! Now that I'm here and reading the thread, I would love to be able to share and hopefully help readers out.

If you're interested in sharing some information I would be more than happy to help and very grateful for information on your experience with Lyme disease and anything that's hurt or helped.

Nikki

I'm looking for some more information on Lyme disease, how it affects the body, and collagen. Anything that has helped or hurt with symptoms. I have a collagen product that I do sell, I'm not trying to sell it here but have information if anyone would like it.
I merely stumbled upon this thread in researching how collagen would reduce my friends discomfort with her diagnosis