Burning stretch marks all over body

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I'm a 38 year-old male with what look like stretch marks all over my body. I have had very large vertical striations on my abdomen since early adulthood, and in my 20s developed them on my arms (at this time I was lifting weights a lot and this wasn't a big surprise) and shoulders, which was strange because I've always had narrow shoulders and never really stretch this skin. By my early-mid 30s, I had them all over my flanks (sides, under my arms), my hips, my waist, and even my knees. All these stretch mark-looking scars are silvery white, although I believe they were all pink when they first appeared. Sometimes they are mildly uncomfortable, and sometimes (like now) they feel like deep burns.

I have a history of increasingly pronounced neurological issues that in my early 30s were thought to be possibly due to multiple sclerosis, and by my mid-30s severe joint pain and inflammation and increasing skin damage all over my body except my thighs and calves. Long story short, despite some anomalous tests, there was no diagnosis of MS, ALS, RA, lupus, or anything else until I was finally re-diagnosed with Lyme disease, bartonella and babesia coinfections a little over a year ago. I had been diagnosed with and treated for Lyme in 1997 when I was 18 years old, but the treatment (10 days of doxycycline @ 200mg/day) was evidently insufficient.

I had my first full-body mole check last year, something I'd always put off because of the embarrassment of my skin. My dermatologist said I have a lot of moles and need to be checked annually, but he didn't see anything suspicious. He definitely noted the stretch marks and suggested that the prevalence was highly unusual for anyone, much less someone who has never been very overweight (I'm 5'11" and was 173lb at my heaviest), but he tried to reassure me by saying that despite being *everywhere*, they're "not that bad' except the ones on my abdomen. I told him my Lyme specialist attributed the stretch marks (which she says are rashes) to bartonella, and he didn't really comment on way or another. I've read elsewhere that some bartonella rashes look like stretch marks and can be very irritating/painful.

I get flare-ups of discomfort, but recently it's been driving me crazy, and I basically feel like a leper. Does anyone have any familiarity with this condition, or with anything else it could be, how to effectively treat it or at least relieve the pain? I don't want to cover my whole body in steroid cream because I know that can be very dangerous. I'm absolutely cursed here.

I'm asking here because I have been to so many doctors, from multiple neurologists to a rheumatologist, dermatologist, neuro-ophthalmologist, allergist, and many more because of all my symptoms, so I am hesitant to just find another dermatologist to get no real answers...so I am just hoping the vast resources of the Internet may be able to bring in some uncommon knowledge.