Anyone else getting petechiae rashes with their lyme/coinfections?

Hi all, just thought I'd ask if any of you have been noticing these painless little clusters of tiny red, smooth dots underneath the skin.

Mine always seem to be either on my thighs, arms or stomach and they usually pop in one place and go away after a week or so then pop up again somewhere else later.

What's weird though is that from what I've heard, these seem to almost always have something to with low platelet counts yet I have had two CBCs done recently and my counts were totally normal. Could these rashes be lyme related?

I am not sure what kind of rash I am getting, but the last month I have been getting 2 different kinds of rashes. One is a rash that looks like a cigarette burn. It doesn't itch or hurt in any way. It has remained the same for two weeks. The other rashes (other than an itchy rash all over my back from a herb) are mostly on my arms and face and are scaly raised lesions. They have no color but I can feel them, they don't itch either.
I wish they would go away! Lol...I am starting to feel like a whale with barnacles!!!

I've had them for months and months now.

Though, I feel it is worth noting, a little backstory, that, for the longest time, there were very few of them, and they would only show up very infrequently. I'd find one or two on my arms or legs every couple of weeks or so.

Then, there was a period where I had a ton of them on the tops of my feet.. constantly, but, after applying some Thieves oil for a few days, they disappeared.

Part of me had thought it was just a coincidence. But, eventually, I stopped using the oil, right? Then, a few months later, again, the petechiae returned to the tops of my feet. Again, I used the oil, and they left.

Same coincidence? I don't know.

Now, present day, recently, I've started using the essential oils again, but this time they seem to be having the opposite effect, at least as far as the red dots.

I've been getting more of them, more consistently. It's not like a ton, but enough to notice regularly, on a daily basis.

I'm really curious what it means..

I experience herxing and flares from the oils, but I have my doubts about whether or not they're killing enough off to make a difference, or just stirring the pot.

I'd really like for them to be doing some damage, because they've been about the strongest, most reliable of the antimicrobials for me.

I've had bad experiences with things working, then not working, within a short period of time. There have been times where I've started a tincture or something, had a whopper of a reaction for a few days, and then it's like there's absolutely no effect. They just fall right off the map.

Granted, I have had a similar experience with the oils. The first few days back on them, I was dead. But, after that, things really tamed out. But, the difference, they still have a noticeable effect. Not something I've gotten from other products.

Because of that, I feel they need to be a central part of my treatment. I'd just like to know why it is that they as well as everything else I've tried has went in this direction - works well, then doesn't or just works sort of "meh."

It can't be a matter of dosing, because I take the recommended amounts, even more in some cases. It can't be detoxing. I've wondered what effect biofilms would have on oils' effectiveness. I imagine biofilm as a sort of oil in itself. You'd think they'd mix well. Either that, or, kind of relevant, I've been looking into some basic skincare measures, and there's this thing called oil cleansing.. where you take one oil (say, mineral) to break up the oil on your face. That said, I don't know if it's biofilms.

Dunnnnoooo.. I'm kind of digressing here.. a lot. Sorry.

Yeah, I get them. I don't know why, which coinfection.

Lifelover93 -

I hope it changes soon too!

I really think these weird rashes and lesions are the infection working its way through the body... skin is our largest detox organ so I'm not at all surprised to see all kinds of weird stuff going on there... capillaries and vessels are right underneath it - we're a mystery machine.

Denikeef -
"barnacles" heeeheee!
Whales are beautiful beasts.

-p

I get them randomly in different places.

Like another poster said they like top of the feet for some reason. Probably has something to do with the skin being really thin there so it's more visible.

I get clusters on top of my feet that come and go. I get them on my thigh and legs. Some go away and some don't.

I can almost tell which one's will go away and which ones wont. The ones that stick around seem to look brighter. I have one my right hand, one of my left wrist and one on my left check that wont go away. The rest of them eventually go away.

Happens more frequently with treatment. Seems to be a connection there.

Edit: Epsom foot baths makes the ones on my feet go away pretty quickly (like within the same day)