painful soles

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> you maybe right in many things.

> I am 36 years old now and I am sure that I have been ill since 2007 but that

> time I had minor problems only but very specific to bart or lyme, painful

soles,

> especially in the morning, profound fatigue, sleep disorders and so on.

I don't think fatigue, sleep disorders are specific enough to point to lyme -

they can occur with many diseases (including vitamin deficits and several other

infections).

Don't know about painful soles, depending on where the pain is it seems to be

specific for Bart indeed.

I have had painful soles for a long time myself, also mostly in the morning. It

is important where the pain is, some sites (pain radiating from joints, tendons)

point to Borrelia, and others to Bart. I have been tested two times for Bart

infection, but nothing has been found, I only have a proven Borrelia (garinii)

infection.

My soles look weird when standing on a hard floor for a short time. Initially

the soles of hand and feet got very red when light pressure was applied. Same

symptom for the rest of my skin with even light pressure. This problem started

right after ABX treatment with doxy and plaquenil; the redness gradually got

less intense when I stopped the plaquenil treatment.

After standing for a minute or so it looks like all the blood in my soles has

disappeared and the soles looks mostly yellow, but with a very irregular,

blotchy pattern. The soles get completely flat and if I'm not careful they

really 'stick' to the bathroom floor. Looks pretty scary, but when sitting down

it returns to normal quickly, within a few minutes.

After about 4 years the pain is now mostly gone, but it sometimes appears again

for some weeks, often in a slightly different part of the pads. The effect of

blood (?) disappearing when standing etc. is still there. I don't know what it

is and doctors don't know either, they don't seem interested in figuring out.

I'm guessing something is wrong with the blood flow in the small veins, damage

to the autonomous nervous system or the smallest veins maybe (could be caused by

both Bart and Bb).

For the pads on my hands/fingers this used to be a severe problem, I was unable

to handle small tools or knives, forks etc. without damaging my pads. This has

improved, but I still have to be careful and use leather gloves when I have to

use some force.

Does that description sound familiar, or do you only have pain in the pads of

the feet?