Three summers ago I woke up one morning with very sore knees. I had been walking on the beach of Lake Michigan and thought I was just out of shape as I hadn't walked on the beach since the last summer. I figured they would get better but they never have and I have been to an orthopedic dr. for torn maniscus and he says I have knees that look to be 20 yrs. older than I am. Says arthritis is the culprit. It seems strange to me as I look back on it how quickly my knees became sore and swollen. My 20 yr. old son has been diagnoised with Lyme and co-infections last Feb. 2011 and in treatment with a LLDR. Has anyone ever had Lyme with only knee swelling and arthritis. I don't seem to have it anywhere else. The more I read on Lyme the more I wonder if my quick onset of arthritis could be those nasty spirochetes. Thanks for input you may have. Shay (Mich)
Posted by payne (Member # 26248) on :
mine started in the knees for 3 yrs then gallbladder removed, (c4-5) many small things added on over the next few years then the blood clots and finally a LLMD saying I have chronic lyme and was probably 10 yrs ago when bite... yup,bit while turkey hunting the spring before my knees were DX's with arthritis... asteo... find a lyme doctor and get tested. wayne
Posted by jlp38 (Member # 27221) on :
Mine started in the knees as well but quickly progressed to most all joints.
Posted by mr al (Member # 18191) on :
I had my knee start hurting one day and then it became so bad I couldn't walk to the bathroom and had to quit my job. It stayed like that for years. I thought my knees were seriously injured some how under the skin. But then one day they just went away and were almost all better. (I got a whole new set of problem the day that happened but that's another story.) But yeah, that day your knees hurt was probably the lyme.
and yes i had just my knee hurt for a while until the rest of my body and head go to hell.
Posted by TF (Member # 14183) on :
The classic lyme symptom is "arthritis" in the knee or swollen knee. It is called "lyme arthritis."
Get to a good lyme doctor right away and watch the "arthritis" go away!
It is lyme and not arthritis!
Posted by joji442 (Member # 29076) on :
Same as with the others, I had a very swollen and arthritic knee before it progressed to the other joints and nerve/muscle pains. No other joint was as swollen as that one knee though.
For me, It took about 4 months of just the knee being swollen, developing a terrible limp and muscle atrophy before the other stuff happened.
Interestingly, it chose the knee that I already had arthritis and previous injuries to.