For the past few weeks I have been having a really bad burning sensation around my shoulders and my skin is very hot to the touch. It feels like they are sun burnt and I'm constantly checking to see if they are red and they aren't. I'm not currently treating but this is scaring me. I've had symptoms 2 years and have never experienced this. Does anyone know what this could be? Of course j googled and stumbled across some bad stuff.
Posted by Judie (Member # 38323) on :
Just a slight bit of sun can cause a reaction in my skin like what you described. Like even less than a minute.
The problem can go on for weeks. I need to avoid the sun at all times. Just walking to and driving in my car can be a problem.
It can also happen to me when I eat things like onions, garlic, spicy foods or am on particular meds.
Posted by TF (Member # 14183) on :
When I had lyme, the burning skin sensation was one of my typical symptoms.
Feeling like you are sun burnt when you aren't is a type of neuropathy, meaning false sensation being caused by nerves. For example, diabetics get diabetic neuropathy and they feel terrible pain or burning down their legs, etc.
So, I had a feeling of being stabbed by thousands of pins, also a feeling of having sun burnt skin patches. These patches would "move around" when I laid in bed trying to sleep. Whatever part of the body touched the bed, it had the sunburnt feeling. Plus, other parts of the body (chest, arms, etc.) would feel like I had sun burnt patches. They moved and moved as I lay in bed.
I used to call it my own personal LSD trip. (I never took LSD, but this was so weird, I figured it must be something like LSD.)
If you have read Burrascano, you know that lyme is primarily a disease of the nervous system. Many such symptoms are listed on pages 9-10 of the Burrascano Guidelines. For example:
So, if you are not currently treating lyme and company, then it sounds like your lyme is progressing. That is what we call it when you are not in treatment and you are getting additional new lyme symptoms.