Does anyonelse notice that body parts fall asleep quicker.....like if you are laying on your side your arm and neck fall asleep..... no pins and needle feeling...neck will feel tight like the tin man. and face and hand will stay numb. The same thing happens with my lower back. Its as if Ive lost the ability for things to come back from falling asleep. they come back halfway and that is it.
I also have been waking up fearing that im paralyzed...because of odd feeling/no feeling below the waist and my lower back. (hard to describe this sensation...lack of sensation)
Either way im worried this may not be lyme...
Posted by psano (Member # 7785) on :
I've had these kind of symptoms too, and I believe they are Lyme symptoms. At times I've had total body numbness or paralysis and would only be able to move after trying for 15-20 minutes or so.
It hasn't been as bad since I started treatment, but my extremities still do "fall asleep" frequently, hands, arms, legs, feet, primarily when I'm in bed and lying on one side or another.
You're not alone w/this.
Posted by Jillybean (Member # 8071) on :
Every morning when I wake up both my hands are asleep. The other day it took about 3 hours for my whole right arm and hand to wake up. I also have numbness on both cheeks. I go in for my MRI on Wednesday. Good Luck, Jill
Posted by ponytail (Member # 36) on :
Oh yeah - comes and goes in severity but, my hands remain constant problem areas!!
This symptom led me to the CFIDS diagnosis in 1996 which ultimately brought me to the Lyme diagnosis in 1999.
I'm on Ketek now and w/in the last week have noticed an intensification of this symptom - hoping it's a herx and not the meds not working!
Also been having phantom tingly areas in my left big toe that feels like a spider or bug is crawling on me. I haven't had that symptom in a couple of years!
Sherry
Posted by wpdavem (Member # 8312) on :
Yes I've had these. It can be frightening sometimes feeling a lack of semstaion in your body. Before being diagnosed with lyme I had paralasis on the left side of my body. Bells Palsy is also a sympotom of LYme Disease. If you have facial paralasis, ussualy on one side of the face, that is a dead givaway that you have Lyme.
Sitting on the floor usualy makes you legs fall asleep quickly. Try to find a soft confortable chair.
If you are feeling up to it and its not to cold out going for a walk may help to warm your limbs up. (You can use a treadmill too.)