LYME AND YOUR BONES

I went to Naturopath several days ago.  I told him I'm doing alot of

popping and clicking joints.  He said calcium isnt getting into the

bones.  Its in the blood but not bones.  So he put me on some stuff

with K2 in it to help absorb.  He said lyme can do that to you.  Im

starting to get little knots on my fingers.  I kept asking about inflammation because thats what I thought it was...My knee has been

bothering me so im thinking it might be im getting a calcium deposit

there...

This is interesting, I had elevated calcium in my blood a cpl years ago (can't remember the term for it), but they couldn't figure out why. My dad was Dx'ed with hyperparathyroidism and he has the same issue with high blood calcium (meaning it isn't getting into your bones).

However, he now wants to get tested for Lyme disease too b/c him and I have a LOT of the same symptoms.

Just wanted to share...but it could be a combo of the lack of calcium in your bones and inflammation, could it not? Since Lyme is inflammatory in nature...

Idk just my two cents!

OMG! My calcium level was a little high back in December before I tested for Lyme and my knees do click and knots on the joints of my fingers!

This makes sense!!!! Thanks for sharing!

aphysicalwreck I was referred to an oncologist/hematologist by my rheumatologist before I saw my LLMD. I was convinced I was going to be Dx'ed with lymphoma. Unfortunately I am still considered at risk for what they call "slow-growing" blood cancer, but for now I'm not Dx'ed so I'm ok with that!

I still have to see the Oncologist again in a couple months for more bloodwork. I'll have to mention the previously elevated blood calcium, I didn't realize that's something a hematologist would look into...

The term for high blood levels of calcium is "Hypercalcemia" and is often a symptom of Bartonella. Here is an article that describes this happening with Bartonella- although they call it cat scratch fever:
sci.tech-archive.net/Archive/sci.med.diseases.lyme/2005-01/0049.html

Edited to correct a terrible mistake!!!

Traveler,

I read the article that you provided, and it triggered a recollection that I had that "cat scratch fever" is another name for BARTONELLA. Curiously enough, the article that you cited does not actually give the name of the microorganism that causes the illness called cat scratch fever. The microbe is actually BARTONELLA HENSELAE. Here is a link to that info.

http://www.cdc.gov/healthypets/diseases/catscratch.htm

You were close. You got the first 2 letters correct Ba.....!

Don

Lymer:
Why are you at risk? What blood work showed that? As far as the hematologist and the high calcium...i am going for the other abnormalities but will mention this also. We will see what the dr says. I did take vit K at one time and I think it helped but I stopped taking it. Maybe I should start again.

aphysicalwreck, I had an abnormal CBC for several months, low neutrophils, high lymphocytes, high eosinophils, and a couple other things. The hypercalcemia was before the other abnormalities showed up in my blood work.

I was also showing "B" symptoms of lymphoma, night sweats, etc but those are also symptoms of Lyme and co-infections. I really feel like its Lyme and co-infections throwing off my bloodwork, but since my Rheumy ruled that out he started seeking other explanations. At least I hope that's the case...my LLMD didn't show any concern that it was cancer and not Lyme. I hope that helps a little, I'm sure I missed some things so if you have more questions feel free to ask away :)

Thanks for your kind words, Lymer, but I do my best to fight the misinformation out there, and if I'm spreading it - even if it is understandable - then I'm undoing all the work I've put into this forum for the last 2 years as a Moderator in my eyes.

I'm hoping that if I can get enough help, that things will smooth out some. We'll see.