LymeNet Flash: What exactly is "neuro" lyme?

LymeNet on Facebook

LymeNet on Twitter

Follow @LymeDiseaseNet

The Lyme Disease Network receives a commission from Amazon.com for each purchase originating from this site.

When purchasing from Amazon.com, please
click here first.

Thank you.

Dedicated to the Bachmann Family

LymeNet needs your help:
LymeNet 2020 fund drive

The Lyme Disease Network is a non-profit organization funded by individual donations.

»	LymeNet Flash » Questions and Discussion » Medical Questions » What exactly is "neuro" lyme?

UBBFriend: Email this page to someone!

Author

Topic: What exactly is "neuro" lyme?

lymegal23
LymeNet Contributor
Member # 28573

posted

What exactly is neuro lyme. can someone explain it a bit to me

Like neuro lyme as opposed to having what other kind of lyme?

what are the symptoms of neuro lyme. what are the herxes of neuro lyme?

I believe i have more neuro lyme becuase I dont have joint problems or really pain anywhere. altho RIGHT before I started treatment i was geting these horrible headaches. those have gone away since i started treatment a month and a half ago. but I do have that out of it feeling in my head and im getting muscle twitches with herxing since i started treatment. i'm not exactly TIRED i just feel more out of it. My extremities are also very cold (nose, toes, finger tips)

so do you think i have more of the neurological lyme?

Posts: 995 | From somewhere out there | Registered: Oct 2010 | IP: Logged |

lymegal23
LymeNet Contributor
Member # 28573

posted

Posts: 995 | From somewhere out there | Registered: Oct 2010 | IP: Logged |

Remember to Smile
Unregistered

posted

lymegal23,
You can easily find answers to these and other questions by doing a "search" of LymeNet Flash.

Often an existing thread brings up more useful info and ideas than you'd even hoped! It's also a good way to get to know LymeNet members who share your interests and/or are very experienced.

The search button is located in the center of the screen, just below "POST NEW TOPIC."

If you're having trouble performing searches, please let us know.

Sincerely,
Smile

IP: Logged |

sutherngrl
Frequent Contributor (1K+ posts)
Member # 16270

posted

Neuro lyme is when lyme affects you in a neurological way. That would include a large number of us. Some ppl are affected mainly arthritically; but most of us have neuro symptoms added in. In my opinion most lyme is neuro.

Posts: 4035 | From Mississippi | Registered: Jul 2008 | IP: Logged |

Keebler
Honored Contributor (25K+ posts)
Member # 12673

posted

-
It's when lyme has infected nerves (as opposed to just joints). In most cases, it does affect and infect nerves throughout the body and the brain. "Brain fog" - headaches - trouble concentrating -- all can be neuro-lyme. Forgetfulness, mood reactions, too.

Any function of the brain that is affected by lyme infection - well, then symptoms can arise from that and make it more difficult to manage day to day activities - or, for some, to even walk across a room or talk.

There is a wide range of effects and it can vary person to person. Nearly everyone with chronic lyme has neuro-lyme. Lyme can invade the nerve tissues in just 12 hours after a bite by an infected vector.

CNS = Central Nervous System
---------------------------

http://www.psychiatricannalsonline.com/showPdf.asp?rID=20626

Lyme Borreliosis: Neuropsychiatric Aspects and Neuropathology

Excerpt from Page 7, column 3:

. . . CNS dysfunction may result when B. burgdoferi spirochetes increase the permeability of the blood�brain barrier and thereby cross and bind to astrocytes (the nearest neighbor to the brain capillaries) and oligodendrocytes.

Changes in the permeability of the blood�brain barrier have been observed as soon as 12 hours after infection in animal models. . . .

=================================

Search sites below with this term: Neuroborreliosis
---------------

http://scholar.google.com/advanced_scholar_search?hl=en&as_sdt=0,38

Advanced Search through Google Scholar

==========

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez

PubMed search of medical abstracts

==========

http://www.lymeinfo.net/

Lyme Info.net - has a very good library

=============================

This explains all about neuro-lyme:

http://www.angelfire.com/biz/romarkaraoke/whento.htm

When to Suspect Lyme - by  John D. Bleiweiss, M.D.

===============================

http://www.canlyme.com/tom.html

The Complexities of Lyme Disease - A Microbiology Tutorial

- by Thomas M. Grier M.Sc.

If you search his name, you will see that he just finished a series of 5 more articles. But I'm not organized to remember how I filed those.

==============================

Regarding psychological and psychiatric matters caused by neurotoxic infections:

www.thehumansideoflyme.net

The Human Side of Lyme

Deliberations of a psychiatrist who evaluates and possibly diagnoses Lyme and other tick-borne diseases of the mind, sharing case histories . . . .

==============================

http://www.wellsphere.com/lyme-disease-article/lyme-is-a-brain-disease-by-virginia-t-sherr/52745

http://www.lymeinfo.net/neuropsych.html

LYME IS A BRAIN DISEASE (neuroborreliosis)

By Virginia T. Sherr

===============================

http://www.ilads.org/lyme_research/lyme_articles7.html

Controversies in Neuroborreliosis - by Audrey Stein Goldings, MD

=================================

http://www.ilads.org/lyme_research/lyme_articles.html

ILADS - Articles & Presentations
-

Posts: 48021 | From Tree House | Registered: Jul 2007 | IP: Logged |

Printer-friendly view of this topic

The Lyme Disease Network is a non-profit organization funded by individual donations. If you would like to support the Network and the LymeNet system of Web services, please send your donations to:

The Lyme Disease Network of New Jersey
907 Pebble Creek Court, Pennington, NJ 08534 USA
http://www.lymenet.org/