Lyme Disease, Fingerprints gone

Fingerprints gone

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wet #1 / 8	Fingerprints gone Has anyone ever heard of someone with Lyme Disease losing their fingerprints? I have a friend who has all the symptoms of L.D., but is convinced she has Chronic Fatigue Syndrome because her fingerprints have disappeared. Apparently, that's listed as a CFS symptom. Anyone know if it's associated with Lyme also? Janis
Fri, 12 May 2000 03:00:00 GMT

Fyik #2 / 8	Fingerprints gone Oh dear. Now I have heard everything! No I probably haven't. Kathy Quote: >Has anyone ever heard of someone with Lyme Disease losing their fingerprints? >I have a friend who has all the symptoms of L.D., but is convinced she has >Chronic Fatigue Syndrome because her fingerprints have disappeared. >Apparently, that's listed as a CFS symptom
Sat, 13 May 2000 03:00:00 GMT

JWissmil #3 / 8	Fingerprints gone Has anyone ever heard of someone with Lyme Quote: >Disease losing their fingerprints? >I have a friend who has all the symptoms of L.D., but is convinced she has >Chronic Fatigue Syndrome because her fingerprints have disappeared. >Apparently, that's listed as a CFS symptom. Anyone know if it's associated >with Lyme also? I have never heard of this symptom but when I first started being treated for Lyme, two of my toes broke open and then large, thick sheets of skin peeled off of them. I have a lot of the Acrodermatitis Chronica Atrophicans symtoms. (a skin condition occuring in late Lyme disease-it is seen more in Europe but only because the doctors here don't recognize it-I know of many people in the midwest with this form of the disease. Doctors were observing 45 people at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. with this form of the disease in 1945. I have had large areas of skin peel repeatedly. I can see this happening with someone. I have a hardened shiny area in one palm. It is strange. Does you friend have any itching? Sometimes the area of skin that is involved has intense itching. I use to be awakened because my feet would itch so much. I would have to get a brush and scratch them. It drove me crazy. I would mention it to doctors for the past ten years, just because I thought it was so strange. It is gone now that I am being treated for Lyme but as I mentioned , I had some big, thick sheets peel off at the start. Another strange thing that I have had happen is that several of my scars, one is 26 years old, have broken open (the skin level of the scars) and formed an ithcy scab and then rehealed, forming a new reddened scar. I know Lyme persists in scar tissue, so this makes sense. It is weird but defintiely Lyme related. georgia
Sun, 14 May 2000 03:00:00 GMT

BCLy #4 / 8	Fingerprints gone Quote: (Fyikat) writes: >>Has anyone ever heard of someone with Lyme Disease losing their >fingerprints? Losing their identity, yes, but losing fingerprints? Why, with no fingerprints I could begin a whole new career! Regards, Brian
Sun, 14 May 2000 03:00:00 GMT

LymeFigh #5 / 8	Fingerprints gone Quote: >(Fyikat) writes: >>>Has anyone ever heard of someone with Lyme Disease losing their >>fingerprints? >Losing their identity, yes, but losing fingerprints? Why, with no >fingerprints I could begin a whole new career! >Regards, >Brian Like who among us has the energy to become a criminal.? <g> Marleen
Sun, 14 May 2000 03:00:00 GMT

JWissmil #6 / 8	Fingerprints gone Quote: >> >>Has anyone ever heard of someone with Lyme Disease losing their >> >fingerprints? >There is no way that by having lyme disease that you lose your >fingerprints. There are some skin conditions that can make fingerprint >impressions not as clear, but no way of losing them. Source: Rev Infect Dis 1989 Sep-Oct;; Suppl 6:S1487-93 Author: Duray PH Title: Clinical pathologic correlations of Lyme disease. Abstract:" The multisystem effects caused by Borrelia burgdorferi in Lyme disease are multiple, varied, and unpredictable. In some patients, the full extent of the infection consists of a stage I acute systemic viral-like illness. Stage II primarily involves the cardiovascular system (myocarditis) and/or the central nervous system (CNS) (meningoencephalitis, polyradiculitis). More inflammatory cells are found in the heart and nervous system structures during this intermediate stage than are found in any tissues involved during stage1. Stage III is characterized by peripheral neuropathy and CNS disorders such as dementia or transverse myelitis (as though the spinal cord has been severed) and arthritis and synovitis of large joints such as the knee. Chronic Lyme disease is also associated with MULTIPLE AND SEEMINGLY UNRELATED CUTANEOUS MANIFESTATIONS such as acrodermatitis chronica atrophicans, SCLERODERMOID-LIKE reactions, lichen sclerousis et atrophicus, subcuticular fibrous nodules, eosinophilic fascitis- like lesions of the extremeties, and possibly, granuloma annulare. With care, spirochetes can be recovered or demonstrated by silver staining in most of the above lesions. Spirochetes have yet to be seen in the tissues of autonomic ganglia or peripheral nerves." georgia
Thu, 18 May 2000 03:00:00 GMT

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