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I have beeen having bad hip pain and low back pain anyone have any advice on what will help it even just a little. I finally got into a llmd but she isn't starting me on antibiotics until I get my ignex test back in 3 weeks. Also bad nausea any help on what I can do in the mean time.
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GretaM
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Hi Jake,
Do you have a bathtub?
Can you go to Walmart or Costco and buy some Epsom Salts? (They have big cartons there and are cheap)
Surprise, (another LN member), taught me to put 4 cups of epsom salts in a nice, warm tub of bathwater and soak your legs and hips and lower back in it for as long as you can manage. Soak till you're comfortable and sleepy and then get out and go to bed, that's how I do it.
The magnesium goes in through the skin and straight to the muscles and connective tissue.
I know what you mean about the leg pain. Sometimes it is almost unbearable from the hips down-straight into the bones. That is lyme with another coinfection in me, when I get that pain.
Also, taking some magnesium capsules, either magnesium bisglycinate or magnesium malate sometimes helps me to ease it a bit.
Nausea, I often have to use a Gravol suppository.
Sorry for the visual there. If that didn't make you upchuck, I don't know what will. haha.
Gravol is not good to use regularly though, it is hard on the kidneys, I read.
But if you need to eat, then use it to keep your food down.
Sometimes I will drink club soda. Sometimes the fizzy helps me. The acidic nature of the club soda doesn't hurt my belly when I am nauseated-I don't know why.
Some use ginger tablets.
A good muscle spray, Watkins makes a good pain relieving liniment or ointment. Stinks but distracts the mind from the pain for a while.
Sorry you are in pain.
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For me, and this is me, it becomes chiropractically related - my chiropractor adjusts my lower back and walking area so the pain stops.
And nausea for me can be C2 out - the 2nd cervical vertebra out, which he adjusts.
Tight muscles pull on joints and they can go out and pull on nerves.
Ultimately, though, you want good treatment for the Lyme condition.
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Hip and back pain were my major symptoms. What has helped me tremendously was adjust ing my diet. I started with the autoimmune paleo and then moved to just paleo. My pain greatly decreased.
On bad days ice was myfriend, never heat. Digestive enzymes used with meals as well as between helped alot as well.
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The only thing that's REALLY helped my leg pain is treating for the Lyme. It's been a really long haul, but it's finally improved to where I'm having entirely pain-free days.
But prior to that, as far as treating it symptomatically goes, I also found the epsom salt baths to be really helpful. My mom sewed me one of those bags full of deer corn that you can microwave and use as a heating pad, that was extremely helpful too. Chiropractor and massage, and also a prescription for Vicodin, plus yoga whenever I could manage it.
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