About this Blog

~Hi, my name is Courtney. I was a full time college student, starting to be a dancer, and used to work with kids part time, living on my own until my illness disabled me.
~I became sick in 2005. I created this blog in the summer of 2006 to record my "headache" diary and to see if anyone finds it interesting.
~12/2006 I lost my job then after, failed a year of college.
~2/2007 Dx Lyme Disease with Bartonella: prescribed 8 months of oral antibiotics. I'm not even sure if I ever had the Lyme Disease.
~11/2007 The doctor took me off medicines while I was still improving but not fully recovered.
~6/2008 Dx Chiari I Malformation by a neurosurgeon in Beverly Hills.
~8/2008 Decompression and Lamenectomy helped 80% of my problems.
~2/2009 Dx Hypermobility by an Orthopedic Surgeon/School Doc: Started PT, dancing, going to school and working.
~6/2009 Started working full time as an Infant-Toddler teacher, which requires lifting. Dancing part time, maybe I'll finish school eventually...lol
~12/2009 Dx Chronic Sinusitis: Stopped dancing due to constant infections.
~2/2010 Sinus Surgery & complication: Severe Epistaxis: Became severely anemic.
~3/2010: Dx Ehlers Danlos Syndrome: by Geneticist
~4/2011: Switched jobs, now work at a Pre-K teacher for 3 and 4 year olds. Less lifting!
~5/2011: Started PT and exercising again

Sunday, March 11, 2007

underarm abscess...

the other tick disease caught my attention (the cat scratch thingy) and I found a picture of what i used to get. abscess under armpit? any one ever get these? i got it 3 times. it was strange, never had them before, this was 6 months after i possibly got sick. one time a doc said it was folliculitis but it was the size of a golfball. another time the other doc said it was inflamed sweat glands. just curious
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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Sounds like Bartonella. There are some doctors who think some cases of seronegative Lyme disease are actually Bartonella infections (there is a LOT of symptom overlap). Axilla abscesses and granulomas are very common with Bartonella. If you are seronegative for Lyme especially, I would check for Bartonella, though effective treatments are similar.

In animal health, Bartonella has become more recognized as a cause of chronic illness (including liver disease, CNS disease including seizure disorders, ocular disease, etc.). I'm quite sure we will find it involved in a lot more chronic human disease as well.

11:58 PM
Anonymous said...

Bartonella. You mean?

Lymph nodes become swollen as an immune response to local infection.

When I was in the ealier stages of lyme- and still sometimes now, I have severely swollen Lymph nodes/glands, in my neck, throat and underarms....I think thats what your describing....

Dont worry, it is your bodys reaction to the infection, it is your bodys unique way of saying "AHH! Im sick, Im under attack!", so it swells up, in cycles-usually-to try to deal with the war going on inside, and attack the infection.

Unless is it a LUMP?...

I know when this was happening to me, I started developing Lumps shortly after I became sick, this only encouraged the doctors who said I had cancer!....but all biopsies were negative. I wish I knew I had lyme then, I would have loved to have them biopsied for Lyme!!!

11:59 PM

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