I never had problems in the shower until the past 2 years.
I am getting them again, and think it is because I am getting worse, was denied IV, now back on orals, the tetracycline and tinidazole.
I got left sided symptoms after the shower today. I get the left side of my head feeling frozen and the left arm like it is asleep and the left leg.
Do you think this is strongly lyme?
even my face feels like it is odd, the muscles after the shower.
Trish
Posted by LisaS (Member # 10581) on :
I dread my daily shower! I dont know if it's the hot water or what but as sonn as I get in my muscles just seem to melt. I get weak an have to sit down. Then I have a hard time getting up.
I also start crying and it gets my depression going in there too for some reason. Cant explain it.
Posted by timaca (Member # 6911) on :
With regard to what Lyme ED says...one must make sure that one doesn't have MS instead of lyme...for MS can be exacerbated by heat.
Lyme, for me, is not exacerbated by hot showers or hot tubs. However, I do feel worse if the air temp is over 100 degrees. (I've always wilted over that temp, however...I just wilt more with lyme ).
Timaca
Posted by SouthernCO (Member # 11167) on :
timaca:
Good point about MS. Years ago I read that, before the modern techniques of diagnosing MS (MRIs showing brain lesions, etc.), Dr.s would diagnose MS by putting the patient in a tub of hot water. If the patient's symptoms (e.g., fatigue and weakness) were exacerbated, then MS was a possible diagnosis.
That's why I believed for years that MS could be my problem. Now that I have a diagnosis of chronic Lyme, I am confused once again.
Posted by ByronSBell 2007 (Member # 11496) on :
I have had that problem too, alot of my lyme symptoms rise while in th shower and stay that way for a gew hours after I get out... It could be the heat killing bacteria, or increased heartrate which means increased circulation of toxins through your body or thoer reasons.
Posted by bv (Member # 9578) on :
i have just the opposite situation. Hot shower makes me feel better. Opens up my sinuses, decreases my stiff neck, and just all around makes me feel a little better.
Does not seem to aggravate my neuro symptoms (burning skin, muscle twitches, etc).
Posted by Marnie (Member # 773) on :
Lyme and the drug Tinidazole.
Figure out HOW Tini works. What levels it raises in the blood
and then what that does to electrolyte and glycogen levels as well as it's impact on your own immune defense.
Hint: P450.
Posted by heiwalove (Member # 6467) on :
when i was at my sickest my symptoms absolutely got worse after a hot shower. extreme heat kills the chetes, thus causing a herx.
at least that's how i understand it.
[ 15. April 2007, 03:03 PM: Message edited by: heiwalove ]
Posted by alarmguy (Member # 11600) on :
I have had two months of IV treatments now from DR R.
I am going for a third..next week.
I hate the heat, it kills me! I now carry a small fan with me in my car so if I go somewhere and I begin to get hot...I go to the car and pull out my fan and borrow an electrical outlet.
I have also filled tube socks with thoose jell ice packs and put them on my neck.
Question, What is the normal time, once discovered that you have lyme, and treatments have started for recovery. Is it a full recovery?
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