Just wondering if anyone else experiences this really strange symptoms. It feels like I have live insects under my feet skin, mostly soles but also sides. If I put my hand there it feels like fast subtle muscle fiber fasciculations.
Any idea if lyme or a coinfection is causing this? My feet also burn, actually everything up to my knees burns.
Posted by cjnelson (Member # 12928) on :
mine tingle mostly but occasionally i will get muscle spasms....
Posted by Andie333 (Member # 7370) on :
In the beginning of treatment, I felt like I had creepy crawlie things in my hair and on the side of my face, but not in my feet.
My feet, instead, were numb almost all the time for months.
Posted by savebabe (Member # 9847) on :
Yes, I have similar symptoms. My feet tingle, burn and the soles of my feet hurt.
I have found that ceftin has helped with the burning, but I feel that the tingling is damage.
I also think bart has a lot to do with this. I am seeing my llmd tomorrow, and I am going to address this specific problem.
If I find out anything new, I will post it.
Feel better.
Posted by chamade (Member # 11472) on :
It seems to be bart, that's what I have been treating for the last 2 weeks with 750mg levaquin. I had this symptom at the very beginning of my saga 5 months ago and today again. The levaquin is doing something: my burning is different than before, moving around my lower legs, everything twitching under my feet etc. and my soles now actually hurt which is a classic bart symptom. Herx? hope so.
Posted by Ellie K (Member # 12056) on :
YES, that vague but insufferable creepy crawly feeling is horrible. Sorry you're going through it!
For me, it's Bart. I did 2 months of treatment. It's somewhat better, definitely more infrequent, but I'm moving on to Lyme now.
I've had it in my feet, palms, legs, and scalp line. For me it's not constant but comes in about 2-hour-long flares, especially at night.
It is usually accompanied by itching, a swollen feeling in my head, and pounding pressure in my ears.
I hate it!
I wish there was something I could recommend but alas, this one's left me stumped.
Posted by kath628 (Member # 12977) on :
Oh my soles....! Thats what drove me to the dr finally. I can barely step on them in the morning. They feel like they are "full" of something...esp the balls of my feet. I also am having itchy feelings on my arms and feeling like theres a fuzz or something on my arms, but theres not.
Can someone pleez tell me what "bart" is? Is it a form of lyme or what? How do you get that?
Posted by Robin123 (Member # 9197) on :
Bart is bartonella, one of the coinfections. A lot of people here have it and can answer questions for you.
Posted by gael1111 (Member # 8816) on :
That's because they are worms!! Look on the sides of your feet and see if you have zig/zag lines that look like veins.
It is called CLM (cutaneous larva migrans) Also go to www.lymephotos.com This guy is on the money. Have had these things coming out of me for over 1 year.
Posted by Scith (Member # 13973) on :
Did you ever get rid of them, I have the same thing, please help.
Posted by MisterGreen (Member # 13996) on :
Yes, me too...
My LLMD and LLMD-Neuro both called it parasthesias due to lesions in the CSPINE.
Posted by MisterGreen (Member # 13996) on :
PS....as soon as I started abx therapy it began to go away.
I have not felt that sensation in almost 2 years. I called it, "bubbling."
Posted by sparkle7 (Member # 10397) on :
Yes. I have had this symptom but not in my feet. I had in in my back & shoulders. It feels like bubbles popping under the skin.
It passed after a while. I haven't had it recently.
Some people say that Morgellons Disease is (or can be) similar to Lyme. Most people with Morgellons test positive for Lyme.
You may want to check into it further.
Some people with Morgellons seem to have good results with colloidal silver. That may help?
I don't know what it is exactly, though.
Posted by Julie4848 (Member # 13065) on :
What about the top of the feet hurting. I was wondering but then I also broke that foot twice and dropped a shelve on it last month (did not break it this time)....But the top of my foot hurts like H***...
J
Posted by map1131 (Member # 2022) on :
The famous lyme doc Dr B says that pain in soles of feet is bart. I'll buy that. My soles are real painful in am when my feet hit the floor.
Painful again if I'm sitting for a period of time and then get up on feet. I have other sx that fit the bart dx.
I haven't had success getting rid of this one yet. I will, some how some way.
Pam
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