Hi, Does anyone know if bottom of feet pain/soreness would be a co-infection symptom, Lyme, or both? My feet have been very sore. marcie
Posted by kelmo (Member # 8797) on :
My daughter has it with bart. I don't know if it's a common symptom.
Posted by GiGi (Member # 259) on :
As another choide: It's always been a metal symptom. Gravity.
Take care.
Posted by Aniek (Member # 5374) on :
I've always heard it was a bart symptom. Mine was worst on drugs that reach bart - Biaxin and Levaquin.
Posted by SForsgren (Member # 7686) on :
Bartonella. I agree.
Posted by Jill E. (Member # 9121) on :
That symptom came on during Bartonella treatment and has remained because I had to go off Bartonella treatment early. Never had the symptom before that. So for me, it's Bartonella.
Jill
Posted by lymeout (Member # 8045) on :
Does Bicillin LA work for bartonella? My daughter just started injections and is herxing madly, but one symptom that she rarely complained of previously but is now particularly strong, is sore bottoms of feet, especially in the morning. We were suspecting bart back in the winter, but test came back negative.
Posted by 5dana8 (Member # 7935) on :
Bart Posted by hatsnscarfs (Member # 6562) on :
Sore soles for me means Lyme, herxing and toxins. I get relief by using podi patches every night www.akgnaturals.com. You can find lots more info about these detox patches by doing a search on LymeNet.
Soaking in Epsom salts (2 cups/tub) also makes my feet feel better. hats
Posted by umbies are great (Member # 10217) on :
My LLMD said it was due to periferal nerve damage from lyme dz. Lyme can affect your CNS (BRAIN &SPINAL CORD). This includes the radicular nerve which is the primary nerve for the bottom of the foot. My tx is Lyrica; 75mg 2xs a day. It takes care of the pain. It is fairly new. It is one step above neurotin. Diabetics often suffer from the same type of pain and take neurotin for it. Hope this info helps.
Posted by Jill E. (Member # 9121) on :
Hi again,
I posted earlier that my sore soles came on during Bart treatment. However, I will second the post that mentions Lyme die-off and the use of Podi Patches.
Also, the famous Dr. B., on a DVD of one of his speeches, mentioned sore soles as being consistent with Bart.
By the way, my Bart test did not turn positive until after I started Bart medication - but I was symptomatic before that.
I've been on Bicillin for months. My LLMD was also considering that the foot pain could be due to Lyme die-off in areas of the body that don't get a lot of circulation/oxygen. I'm not much of a herxer, even on Bicillin, but the Bicillin could certainly be adding to it. Bicillin is for Lyme, not Bartonella.
I've recently started using the Podi Patches hoping it would help my foot pain/Achilles tendon pain. I think they do help a bit. I haven't been doing them long enough to really know for sure.
I do have burning peripheral neuropathy throughout my entire body from Lyme or coinfections, but the sore soles came on years after the onset of the neuropathy.
Take care, Jill
Posted by kelmo (Member # 8797) on :
My daughter and I were taking a walk tonight...can you believe it? Taking a walk!!
A year ago she would not have been able to do it.
She said the soles of her feet don't hurt any more in the morning. Her hands still hurt, but the feet are doing fine.
She has tested positive for Bart only. So, Zith and Rifampin have helped that symptom. There are still many more to go.
Kelly
Posted by seibertneurolyme (Member # 6416) on :
I don't have Lyme -- hubby does. For me, sore soles of the feet in the a.m. were a sign of high blood pressure. I would limp into the bathroom in the mornings and then would have no more problems during the day when my circulation was better.
Bea Seibert
Posted by sadie420 (Member # 9294) on :
I have had Lyme for 14 years and only this year developed that symptom - pain on the sole of one foot, especially in the morning, as others are reporting. I am glad to learn it is yet another symptom of Lyme as I was considering seeing a podiatrist.
Strange critters, aren't they!
Sadie
Posted by Marcie (Member # 10070) on :
Hi, Thanks for the many suggestions. I am hoping it is a toxin die off of lyme and not Bart, but when I finally see the LLMD I will ask. I live in Michigan and there are only a few LLMD here so it's taking a while to get in. For now, I did find a doctor who put me on 400mg of doxy a day. Before I started the doxy I was having some nerve problems like burning sensations in legs. I am wondering if the foot pain has to do with that? Marcie
Posted by 5dana8 (Member # 7935) on :
I ended up with plantar fasciitis with lyme also a peripheral neuropathy that waxes and wanes.
Posted by tothepoorhouse (Member # 8595) on :
I hobbled so badly with the foot pain in my heels. Abx didn't help it....neither did patches.
The only relief I got was to have my podiatrist inject my plantar tendons with cortisone.
I know.....cortisone is a no-no for lymies, but it is and continues to be the only thing that takes the pain away.
I only do it every 6 months or so when it comes back again.
Posted by Laurie (Member # 159) on :
I have had bouts of horrendous bottom-of-feet pain, lasting weeks, but ONLY first thing in the morning (or sometimes when getting out of bed during the night). This is plantar fasciitis. It does seem to be a Lyme or co-infection symptom. What helped me more than anything is a pair of $15 gel heel-cups rx'd by my family doctor.
Posted by Dean L. Harris (Member # 9969) on :
Have had foot and heel pain for years and not knowing of/aware of Lyme used the heel cups (they are called Tuli Heel Cup and are available in the foot section of any drug store) and also had foot surgery for which the surgeon fitted me with a hard plastic support for the metatarsals which had a cup shape for the heel. Now I find that any shoe (Birke whatever) that shapes to the heel seems to eliminate the pain after the first step out of bed to get into the shoe/slipper/etc.
Posted by DeniseS (Member # 7276) on :
I have to reiterate the Bart idea.
After 1.5 years of Lyme and Babs tx I was feeling a lot better but had lingering sx. I read SF's summary of what Dr. B said at a conference about Bart and sore soles and the lightbulb went off. I hadn't even thought to mention this sx to my docs before. I requested Levaquin and have been herxing increasingly for 10 weeks! All three of my LLMDs think that this is it. The Bart herx is exactly the sx that weren't going away.
My Bart test still remains negative.
Also, I had been doing PodiPatches the entire length of my tx.
The herx is the worst of my whole tx but I know it's going to make a big diff in how I feel.
My heart goes out to you and your daughter, D
Posted by hanoverw/lyme (Member # 10215) on :
quote:Originally posted by Marcie: Hi, Does anyone know if bottom of feet pain/soreness would be a co-infection symptom, Lyme, or both? My feet have been very sore. marcie
Posted by hanoverw/lyme (Member # 10215) on :
my foot pain came about just resently. i tested negitive for co-infections. my antibotics were stopped to soon. within 7 weeks off of them i felt worse than when first diagnosed, intense foot pain was then a new problem.
Posted by BlueRoo (Member # 10233) on :
Hi. I'm new to this site and so glad I've discovered it. I have been sick for 7 yrs. and was recently diagnosed by Dr. C in MO with Lyme's. I am really curious about this 'foot pain' issue, b/c I have been experiencing a lot of pain myself. My problem is that I can't walk around barefoot at all. It makes the bones in my feet/legs hurt too much. Is the pain that ya'll are refering to more muscular or bone-related? Also, what is Bartonella?
Posted by DeniseS (Member # 7276) on :
Welcome BlueRoo,
Bartonella is another bacteria trasmitted by ticks aka a coinfection.
For me the pain was as if the pads under the bones in my feet were not thick enuf, were not cushioning enuf so my feet ached and felt sore in the soles and the bones.
D
Posted by tabbytamer (Member # 3159) on :
Mine was diagnosed as Plantar Faciitis (left heel/foot). But it started to be unbearable when I was on Amox/Biaxin/Plaquenil combo.
After several months it seemed to improve.
Pain returned while on a break from all abx except this time in the right heel/foot.
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