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Antiphospholipid and Lyme disease
Autoimmune Diseases | Last Active: Feb 29, 2020 | Replies (10)Comment receiving replies
Welcome @soitis4590.
You're the second person in less than 24 hours to post about antiphospholipid syndrome. @lena999 also wrote about being diagnosed with it 2 years ago.
According to this article by Mayo Clinic http://mayocl.in/1YaYc5X "People with certain infections, including syphilis, HIV infection, hepatitis C and Lyme disease, among others, have a higher incidence of having antiphospholipid antibodies."
What symptoms of APLS do you have and how are you managing them today?
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Hello,
Thank you for he link!!
I'm not sure what my symptoms would be today from APLS. The stroke certainly left me with some problems which continue today. Because I am on Coumadin (and aspirin is that med really necessary?) there are many repercussions from that. I need the usual bloodwork every 10 days to 4 weeks, I bleed and bruise easily, I can't take many antibiotics, I restrict my diet some-so as not to have to deal with the vitamin K issue, surgeries which I have needed are complicated by Coumadin. All the usual Coumadin stuff. The major event from APLS was the stroke. And perhaps a second in 2011. I consider it a TIA if that. No testing was done to confirm one and after 48 hours all issues were resolved with no deficits. A new dtroke has not been seen on future MRIs.
My late stage Lyme/bartonella symptoms are the most challenging right now. Is there a discussion group on this website for Lyme?
Why is there little discussion about APLS and stroke? I think a number of people must have it with problems.