Wrinkled fingertips?

My arms have that livedo bad..er duc noticed it ..i think it related to the wrinkle thing...phioph said hers went away with mhbot...i want full circulation back ..i want to be hydrated dernit....trav how did you /are you treating bartonella ?...i remember you saying Houttunyia? With what how much etc?...

Post Edited (bluelyme) : 4/18/2016 3:39:24 PM (GMT-6)

To be honest... I actually strongly believe my Bart is resistant to one or two of the abx I am on... But it doesn't get much worse, so it could be that it is working but just inhibiting the Bart. Who knows...
I feel this is taking forever... My neck and spine feels strange again.

Never mind - I just read what the ACS 200 is in another thread.

LP
I have had a pretty good week...so I'm wondering if things are getting better for me...
I am on Rifampin, Biaxin - M/W/F and Ceftin Th/F
Also taking CBD oil (for about 5 weeks now I think?)
Also on several Buhner's herbs: JK, Sida, Crypto, Kudzu, Greater Celandine, Hawthorn.

So, will see how I feel next week.

You have given the Buhner herbs a good try, right?

Hey LP, if every time you try to take Buhner herbs, that means that you are either allergic - which is unlikely - or it's hitting the infection(s) that you still have.

Knowing which herbs you are reacting to will help you narrow down what infection(s) you are still dealing with.

Best of luck!!

So when i did Houttunyia i itched like mad for weeks ...finally kinda normal was it hitting the bart or allergy?...

Has anyone actually definitively gained collagen back? To be more specific, has anyone had wrinkled fingertips and indents left behind from lost padding, and actually gained it back?

I've been struggling with fingerpad wrinkles and what seems like some changes on the foreskin of my penis (atrophy). Just recently things seemed to hit a new level of seriousness as one of my nostrils began collapsing when breathing.

I've been sick for 2 years, and am only 30 years old. Looking for some hope as I see posts talking about Buhners herbs, collagen, antibiotic combo's, etc -- but has anyone actually completely reversed these types of changes?

Hi Znieh - welcome!

This post of yours' is timely!

I posted in this thread about the wrinkles on the finger pads (and lines running the length of my fingers as well)


I noticed a few days ago ...that mine are better.

It was mostly on my left hand (my 'bad' side) and my finger pads are plump...they don't look like raisins anymore....and they are staying that way...

So, yes...it can get better. Mind were wrinkled for at least 3 years...(I actually can't remember exactly at what point it happened)

I'm currently being Treated with Clarithromycin/Bactrim/Malarone/Nystatin and pulsed doses of Rifampin.

My arrival at Lyme has been frustrating. I became aggressively sick at the end of 2015, and my entire autonomic nervous system became derailed--Trouble breathing, burning/freezing hands&feet, neuropathy, shortess of breath, trouble swallowing, ED, GI issues, disturbed sleep, rapid heart beat, etc. As months progressed other bizarre ailments occurred--hair loss, wrinkled fingertips, penile changes, and most disturbing--2 months of terrible nerve pain in hands with some wasting throughout my entire body. I lost 7,8 pounds over just 2 days and everything from standing on hard floors to siting on a chair hurt. My lean athletic toned body became skinny and flabby. I became incredibly weak and fatigued.

Seeing that I spend almost every weekend of the summer in upstate NY (hiking/biking/etc), Lyme was originally suspected by myself and family. However, after trying Doxycyline for 1 month early on, and then 6 months later Amoxicillin, with no great progress, I gave up on treatment. Throughout this time I saw 20+ doctors as everything was affected. No doctor could come up with a diagnosis as my blood results looked clear for auto immune diseases. I've since linked up with a different lyme doctor and he believes strongly that I have Lyme. My IGENEX test only provided 3 intermediate bands, but 2 were lime specific bands. My Western Blot, similiarly, only 2 bands but again one was lyme specific.

I've been on treatment for 3 months, and my neuropathy seems to be dying down which gives me hope I'm on the right path. I've also noticed a very slight improvement in bowel movement and very light sweating under my arms (had not happened for 6+ months).

Traveler-your post of this article- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3751012/
struck a cord with me, as I've been mentioning changes in my penile foreskin, and every urologist has been perplexed. In the above article, changes in the "frenulum" are mentioned (which I wasn't aware that was the name of the area I was trying to get them to pay attention to). This further gives me hope that I'm on the right path.

Lyme is obviously tricky--I have no brain fog or mental ailments, but my body has physically been ravaged the last 2 years.

Regarding fingertip and finger creases... I would describe mine the same way, they got worse when I started abx a couple yrs ago and have become so much worse since busting biofilms.

I also have what LLMD and I now think is psoriasis on 4 fingertips so my immune system is getting confused by something. And this also makes me think that for some of us, this crease condition might be the immune system over-reacting to something.

Weird, wild stuff.

-p

I appreciate all the responses. Thank you everyone. Very kind and helpful group here.

Herbals I'm doing Biocidin LSF, as well as Byron White's A-P Immune Support Drops.
Are there others that individuals have had great help on?

Detox I'm doing DSM tablets on weekends to get rid of moderately high mercury/lead.
On those days I'm doing glutathione. Other days of week I'm doing alpha lipoic acid and NAC.

Also hopeful that since I just started having some sweat under arms, that I'll be able to release toxins through perspiration. I went to an infrared sauna over the winter and couldn't sweat at all after 25 minutes, and my heart started racing, so I left. It seemed dangerous.

Z87- i have had kinda the same story...that weird wasting is zombie freakshow crap !...bvt ,iv rocephin and heavy bart treatment seems to have halted it ...i am trying to rebuild with collagen ,high dose royal jelly ,biotin , before trying hgh, prp ,stems