Hi, I have noticed that I can feel fairly good, even close to normal and if I (for example) hit my elbow or stub my toe, small normal accidental injuries, it sets off the pain all over.
The other day at the store I was walking in front of a shopping cart when it hit my heel....which by the way really hurts...next thing, I am have strange pain appear in bursts all over my body.
Has anyone else notice injury setting of the Ld pain?
I think this is really strange.
Thanks!
Posted by dlp252 (Member # 10711) on :
OMGosh, I just asked something similar to this on another forum this morning!
Friday I had a prolotherapy injection in my left shoulder. The shot itself wasn't extremely painful, but when the lidocaine wore off I had the worse pain I've ever felt from that evening all through the next day...
Since then my old joint pain seems to have returned...I haven't really been bothered by it in several months...just my neck, but this weekend both knees started aching really badly, my wrist started hurting again and my neck pain intensified!
I've also noticed some pain in my head...not really a headache...I thought exactly what you did, strange bursts over my body!
Posted by lymebytes (Member # 11830) on :
Hi Donna, For some reason I knew I wasn't alone! I have a teenage son, who is into wrestling, weight lifting etc. He loves to pick me up and I will tell him NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO, if he picks me up and possible grabs my wrist too hard to something, here we go, the one thing hurts then the suddenly pain will be in my ankle, my shoulder, it is so WEIRD!! It is like the bacteria gets all excited and joins in on the pain-fest!
Take care.
Posted by hopingandpraying (Member # 9256) on :
My teenage son fell off his bike last year and the pain got worse. I also read a post on Lymenet some time ago in which someone got kicked by a horse and the Lyme pain flared up.
I don't know the reason for this, but I'll ask our LLMD next time about it. Maybe he can explain it.
Posted by cactus (Member # 7347) on :
I experience this too - and did prior to having my Lyme diagnosis. A stubbed toe can be excruciating all over!
I'm reaching way back, trying to remember this, but somewhere I read that some disorders can cause people to feel more pain than others because the nerves are transmitting more pain signals, or there is more of a particular substance used in the transmission of pain messages.
Maybe this is the case for many of us with Lyme, especially if we have CNS involvement.
Posted by Aniek (Member # 5374) on :
When you have chronic pain, there is a change in the nervous system that actually results in more pain.
Lyme can also cause fibromyalgia symptoms. With fibro, you feel more pain that the average person. You can feel pain from a trigger that wouldn't cause pain in anybody else.
You can also feel phantom pain, which is an old injury that is now healed. The body remembers the injury. I used to have pain in an ankle I sprained after it healed, that was probably phantom pain.
Posted by lymebytes (Member # 11830) on :
Thank you for some very interesting, educating replies...I knew this was an LD issue, of course, isn't everything? Cactus - makes sense, ironically I have CNS issues.
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