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Posted 3/30/2016 2:43 AM (GMT 0)
I am curious about this as my llmd thinks I have had Lyme's and co since 2009 when I had aseptic meningitis and that is when I started getting the stretch mark rashes as well. In my lower leg I have had a varicose vein show up and keeps increasing in size and as of 2 weeks ago it popped. But I also started getting varicoceles.
I have heard Bartonella likes the cell walls of blood vessels is this true and if it is will I be able to get the veins under control with treatment?
Posted 3/30/2016 2:47 AM (GMT 0)
Yes, bartonella can cause varicose veins...I can't remember where I read it...so can't post the source.

Are yours the varicose...or spider veins? I have spider veins on the backs of my legs.

i don't know if they will heal...or always be like that...is it permanent damage? I don't know.

But, with treatment, hopefully we won't get anymore...
Posted 3/30/2016 1:20 PM (GMT 0)
Well I think it is considered a varicose vein as it is 1 vein that runs across the front of my leg and is swollen and now goes in a squiggly pattern.
Posted 3/30/2016 7:23 PM (GMT 0)
That does sound like a varicose vein.

Hopefully treatment will help it. Does it hurt?
Posted 3/30/2016 10:51 PM (GMT 0)
Yes, it causes varicose veins. Bart loves endothelial tissue. Your blood vessels and lymph nodes have plenty of it.
Posted 3/31/2016 5:25 AM (GMT 0)
Well it didn't hurt until I popped it and got a huge bruise lol. But the odd thing in my opinion is that it is not even on the same side as I have all the leg and foot pain issues it is on opposite side. the vericoceles on the other hand yes those do but I have not found anything to help that. Although interestingly enough and maybe this is for another post but I was also found to have an inguinal hernia yesterday and they say that that will cause huge issues with vericoceles but the hernia is directly under the spot where the tick bite was??
Is it possible that with lymes and or bart that it weakened the muscles to cause the hernia? I have never had hernia issues and they don't run in my immediate family either.
Posted 3/31/2016 5:36 AM (GMT 0)
I think it is possible that bart/lyme weakened the muscles and contributed to the hernia....

My left shoulder blade/mid back/arm...etc. atrophied quite badly....due to the nerves being attacked - actually my first symptom....I woke up in the night with bad radiating pain, and a limp, numb left arm.
Over the next several months, the entire area became atrophied, and I also developed frozen shoulder.

I am now trying (almost 3 years later) to build up the muscle I lost due to nerve issues. My range of motion is finally coming back...it's been difficult.. The physiotherapist works on my shortened muscles each week - trying to stretch them.

Nasty disease we have.
Posted 3/31/2016 5:52 AM (GMT 0)
Wow, I wonder if that is what is causing my shoulder issues than? For about the last year I have had a spot behind my right shoulder that with repetitive motion would burn aweful. with rest it would go away. And starting in December after that zpac and steroids when all my other symptoms started it spread quickly to include both shoulder blades but with any use at all my right shoulder blade just feels like it is on fire it burns so bad? If it is not being used the pain subsides but with any motion it acts up again.
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