robi
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Here's somsthing I have been wondering about for a while. I feel electric sensations in body as if I was being pricked lightly with a small electrified pin. This happens randomly on all different parts of my body. This really wears me ouot emotionally and physically.
The other really annoying symptom I have is that when I touch the car door,anything metal or a person, I get a shock. Sometimes the other person can feel it also. Anyone else have this? Anyone know of an explanation for these symptoms.
I have had the electric shocks in my big toe and up and down my spine. There are common, and a sign of neuropathy. I have experienced it as herx and side effect of medication. Flagyl can cause neuropathy as well.
The shocks from other people, not that I can remember recently.
TheCrimeOfLyme
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Yes and yes
I've had the electric shooters in my foot and leg for over a year. They DID finally finally go away on doxy though. Thank god.
The other one about shocks. YES! I sure wish I could explain the shocks but I cant.
There was a post on this not too long ago maybe in February or earlier about being shocked. You might be able to find it by keyword Static or shock. I think YankeeInBlack posted it, but I could be wrong. ALOT of posters signed into there saying they had the same exact thing happen.
if Im right, Im recovering well
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robi
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No help to you, but it shows it's fairly common. cave76[/B][/QUOTE]
Cave it definately is a help to me as I was seeking some confirmation of my symptoms and hoping I wasn't crazy. Thanks you for helping.
treepatrol
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Yep electric shocks and lots of static plus phantom pains out of the blue like someone pinching or putting pressure on a certain spot when nothing is touching the area.
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I came accross this answer as to why lyme patients are more succeptible to static electrical shocks.
Do I suffer from excessive thirst, frequent urination or a susceptibility to static electrical shocks? Yes to all three, I answered, especially the shocks. But I'm curious: what do those things have in common? Is a tendency to give people electrical shocks tied to illness somehow? What do all of these things signify? Shoemaker answered the shock question first: Hormonal deficiencies cause neurotoxic patients to lose water, and as salt becomes more concentrated in their blood, sweat glands respond to protect the blood from excessive salt by excreting it in sweat. In fact, cystic fibrosis patients are diagnosed by the amount of chloride in their sweat, and often neurotoxic patients have even more chloride in their sweat than cystic fibrosis patients. The salty sweat dries on the skin, making it a very large, efficient conductor of electricity. I'm happy to know why this happens, but I had no idea it had anything to do with my health problems.
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Yes, I have the same symtom. It was severe a year ago. Mild now. Podi patches help alot aspecially with the constant pricking in my feet & ankles. hatsnscarfs
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map1131
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Robi, I'm a shocker too. It drives me crazy. I now close the car door with my elbows to avoid the sensation.
I also have pins & needles type sensation anytime, any place in my body. From this reading it's just another sign of a toxic body. I've said for 4 yrs I feel like a Christmas tree sometimes. All lite up.
Pam
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Robi
I have had this I think...mine was like an electrical sensation which would travel in a line down my arm for a few seconds or on my face...weird and unpleasant. Dr S. said it was neurotoxins causing it.
I did take some cholysteramine and went on antibiotics at the same time then treated Babesia and I don't know which got rid of it but it disappeared and has never returned.
Since I got ill I get static shocks really easily and I have stopped wearing all nylon/acrylics because it gets so bad!
I get the pins and needles feelings in my calves and feet still which is neuropathy...think B vits help me with that.
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