Just checking in regarding some symptoms. I've seen a variety of doctors and completed a variety of tests (including MRIs of head, neck and back) with no diagnosis yet. Does any of this sound like it could be lyme?
The symptom that prompted me to see a doctor this past January (06) was right leg weakness. The weakness has persisted throughout the past year. My left leg has some aching (knee and hip) but not the weakness like the right leg has.
In addition, I've experience vertigo since college (I'm a 44 year old male), muscle aches, and fatigue. All of these symptoms come and go.
Recently, I have also experienced tingling on the left side of my back, tingling on my left temple and left side of chin, and a variety of muscle twitches.
In years past, I attributed many symptoms to allergies (which I've had throughout my life) but the more recent symptoms have me concerned.
Any input?
Posted by mbroderick (Member # 5220) on :
I've also had on-and-off tingling, weakness, shooting pain in my feet, legs, and arms. It's gotten a lot less severe as time goes by, thank goodness. Treatment for Bartonella helped alleviate a lot of the pain (especially in my feet and legs).
Posted by notcrazykate (Member # 10458) on :
This sounds to me like it could be lyme. I hope somebody comes along with a link to the complete list of symptoms... there are so many!
I've been to all kinds of doctors and run the gamut of tests, as well, with diagnoses of possible MS, fibromyalgia, the possibility of developing thyroid disease in the future, panic attacks, etc.
When lyme was suggested to me, I thought "might as well, nothing else is helping me!"
I turned out to be IgG positive (meaning I had it at some point) and IgM inconclusive - will get second test results back Monday.
Find a symptom list; I was amazed at how many things I had considered "quirks" that I now think are due to lyme (terrible sense of direction, no spatial concept, scatterbrained/forgetful, allergies, eczema, etc.).
Good luck!
Posted by bettyg (Member # 6147) on :
hi; you recently got my 21 pages of newbie links/advise; go half way back and you'll find the long list of 124-150 SYMPTOMS LIST ok. Posted by Robin123 (Member # 9197) on :
Another excellent Lyme symptom list is Melissa Kaplan's list at www.anapsid.org/Lyme/index. Under Diagnosis, listed as Master Symptoms, organized by symptom categories. I printed out the entire list, reduced it in size by 50%, and made a 3-pg hand-out which I pass out to those interested.
Posted by Hiawatha922 (Member # 10796) on :
Thanks for your responses. I believe that most symptom lists usually identify problems in limbs--plural. Most of my concern has been in my right leg and left arm. Is this unusual for lime?
Posted by Monica (Member # 224) on :
Hope you will get a blood sample sent to Igenex in California for testing. I finally got a positive test from them.
Right leg weakness was a symptom of mine since 1997 that did not clear up with the half-baked regimen of antibiotics I was on. Tests showed nothing.
That was then -- 1997 and 2000.
Now I am wheelchair bound. Crippling arthritis in my right knee, lack of balance. Inability to walk due to neurological involvement.
If I had been treated properly I don't think I would be in the mess I am in now.
Please get to an LLMD and send a blood sample to Igenex.
Posted by am36 (Member # 9409) on :
I have had this, and it was misdiagnosed originally. I was put on steroids, with the only result being that eventually my toes were paralyzed and I was walking like someone with ALS.
In my opinion, definitely worth investigating.
Posted by monkeyshines (Member # 6406) on :
Hiawatha922,
I started out with pain/tingling in my right shoulder blade. Then what drove me to the doctor six years ago was screaming pain in my left forearm. I then had the right side of my lower face go numb (briefly) and lost feeling (briefly) in my right hand.
Now, most of my pain issues tend to be bilateral, though they can differ in severity on either side. But as you can see I've definitely had repeated one-sided episodes (especially early on).
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