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This past weekend my daughter has been experiencing some pretty bad headaches.... lots and lots of pressure feeling....Tylenol did nothing for her. She has Neurological Lyme and has been on ABX for 3 weeks now, could it be that it's finally reaching her brain to kill off? She also started getting this numbness on one side of her fact last night, it quickly went away but really scares me. I've read about the Bells Palsy stuff and am praying that's not what's happening to her. So her three major symptoms were major head pain, pressure / ear congested feeling / and then the tingling and numbness. Anyone experienced these? Could it be the dieoff?
Thanks
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dmc
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Your poor daughter. Major headaches & facial numbness was my first symptoms.
Tylenol didn't touch my Lyme headaches due to inflammation. Advil, Motrin were the only things that touched them
I rarely get headaches now. Been off abxs for a year now & I truly can't remember my last headache.
Treatment does work...it's a marathon, not a sprint.
Will keep her in my thoughts & prayers.
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feelfit
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same symptoms as your daughters lauriemay.I had these symptoms before treatment and still have them now.
I am sure it is due to inflammation and may be caused by die-off (toxins) or the bacteria itself....either way, because they affect the head and brain they feel very bad. Not to mention scary.
I have had the facial numbness and tingling for a long time and have never developed Bells Palsy.
Try to work on the inflammation as others have said. It may help with these symptoms.
Best to your daughter, feelfit
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I to have had the numbness on the face...never developed bells.....
ask you LLMD if she can take exedrin?? advil???
when my headache's are bad...I sometimes put a hot/warm compress over my face or back of the neck......it does help...
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Hi Laurie,
When I started Andrographis, which attacks the bad guys in the brain, i had bad icepick headaches, lots of pressure, and could almost feel things draining out of my head.
It lasted about 2 weeks on and off and then began to resolve. The best way for me to deal with the pain was just to think, "this is the lyme doing this to me and I will win this battle. I can take anything!" (Just pep talk to myself.)
I'm sure it's really hard seeing your child go thru something like this. Harder than experiencing it yourself for sure.
Take heart - this will pass and she will be OK!
I'll be praying for a quick recovery.
-------------------- "My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever." Psalms 73:26
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