okay, the neurotic nurse is back, again. the children are destroying the house as mom continues to try to figure out what the hell is wrong with me.
does anyone else only experience symptoms on one side of their body. everything for me has been all one sided. today it feels like one side of my face is zoned out.
not paralyzed like bell's but just funny. my symptoms continue to come and go, now i'm wondering if i have some kind of circulation problem. it's just weird everything happening on my right side, which i'm right handed.
it just screams neurological, but then i think if the symptoms persisted i'd be more freaked out but they come and go. mornings are worse.
i think it would be easier if i could pinpoint one thing that was constant, i can't even say i'm in pain. of course a positive lyme would actually make me feel better, at least i would be prepared what to expect.
okay i'm going to try to be a mom again, it's just so hard when your so self absorbed about your health but when you've always been healthy and then hit with such a weird feeling about yourself it's really difficult.
thanks guys, keep your fingers crossed for me karen
Posted by Lymetoo (Member # 743) on :
You should get alot of responses on this. Most of us have one sided....or one side with the most complaints and problems.
For me, it's the left side.
Posted by tic chick (Member # 9156) on :
For me it's the right side with light numbness and itchy scalp, nose, and even eyeball.
I am also a mom and very concerned and overly compulsive when it comes to the health of me and my family.
Does sound like neuro-related to me too.
Try thinking positive thoughts. I know it's hard. Mornings are bad for me too. Posted by Lymetoo (Member # 743) on :
I just did a search on "one-sided symptoms" and came up with about 10 threads on it.
[See the little word "search" above?? Click on it and type in what I did and bingo, you'll have all of them.]
I have had one side giving me more trouble for a time, then it would shift to the other.
Early on, when my joints were involved, it seemed to be one side then the other, then both at once. Though, one side would always be worse.
Twitching would -- and still does, though not near as much -- favor one side for a time, then switch.
When I was going numb it was my left side. I would wake up unable to feel or move my left arm, and a few times my leg too. It was terrifying. I would wake in a sudden jolt, my heart racing, with half my body paralyzed, and go instantly into a panic. A course of flagly and zith ended this.
Posted by StuckonLyme (Member # 8196) on :
its the left side for me
Posted by kitkat32 (Member # 9682) on :
It's usually only the right side for me. I just posted not too long ago on this.
I get the novacaine wearing off feeling on right side of head, face, neck, arm and leg.
It scares the heck out of me each time it happens. Before I had abx I also had knee problems that were only on the right side. I try not to concentrate on it too much or I send myself into a panic.
kit
Posted by david1097 (Member # 3662) on :
I had single sided sypmtoms. Odd ones in that both the left side of the body AND left side of the face were affected, this is odd in that it is not supposed to be that way due to the crossover that occurs in the pyrimidal tract. In any case a spect scan showed that the right side of the brain was affected more by hypo perfussion, oddly the lessions that where noted where on the left side of the brain.
I sense a degreee of panic in your postings. I suggest to look at it another way...
Regardless of the diagnosis, the diagnosis is the begining of the solution not the end of the ways things are or have been. Without treatment for what ever it is things will likely only get worse.. With treatmetn thing will likely get better....
In terms of Lyme vs MS, I know people with MS, some are 100% functional some are not and some are very bad. I also know some with Lyme, some are 100% functional some are not and some are very bad.
So the bottom line is that both are not good but I don't think that any particular one is worse than the other.
Something like a glioblastoma multiforme on the otherhand would be cause for a really bad day, fortunately, you would have already heard about it if that was the problem.
What ever you have you have, given your current differential - from what I infer from your other posts (ms, lyme or many even one of the herpes viruses which can also invade the brain) there are treatments for it that will help.
Posted by Lymetoo (Member # 743) on :
David said,
"Regardless of the diagnosis, the diagnosis is the begining of the solution not the end of the ways things are or have been. Without treatment for what ever it is things will likely only get worse.. With treatmetn thing will likely get better....
In terms of Lyme vs MS, I know people with MS, some are 100% functional some are not and some are very bad. I also know some with Lyme, some are 100% functional some are not and some are very bad.
So the bottom line is that both are not good but I don't think that any particular one is worse than the other."
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I agree!! How ya doing, piper?
Posted by Jill E. (Member # 9121) on :
As Lymetoo already mentioned, there have been lots of threads on this topic, so definitely do a search.
When I first saw my LLMD after 18 months of severely deteriorating health, he questioned whether it was Lyme because my symptoms are almost completely symmetrical and because I deteriorate steadily. Most of his patients seem to be one-sided and wax and wane.
Turns out I do have chronic Lyme and multiple coinfections. He said it never ceases to amaze him how Lyme presents so differently in so many people.
So, yet, one-sided and wax and wane is very typical of Lyme. But there are many exceptions, like me, and I've met others who are symmetrical and also deterioriate steadily without treatment.
Jill
Posted by firepipersnurse (Member # 9637) on :
okay why oh why did you have to mention a glioma, i never even considered that and don't want to... i don't want a bad day tomorrow, i want good news..............
Posted by david1097 (Member # 3662) on :
I wouldn't worry about that, Since it has been a few days a stat report would already have been issued, prior to a full report. That sort of thing lights up like a lightbulb on the MRI, you can't help but see it, even if you just glance at the films. The delay in your Dr's response is either nothing abnormal, or something that is slightly not right and needs a consult so is still up it the air. All the Dr's I know will always call immediately if there is a big problem, even if that means calling from home at night.
Dont forget, lession do occur in the normal population, with no ill effect so even if you have some of these, they may very well be classified as "normal".
If you need to do an MRI again, just ask for a copy of the films, that what you can see right away whats going on.
With Lyme, the MRI usually does not show much in the way of abnormalities.
Posted by Beverly (Member # 1271) on :
I have a lot of left sided symptoms, but I also get stuff on right too, like knee, shoulder, neck pain. I have had most of the weakness on left side.
Hang in there.
Posted by Dave6002 (Member # 9064) on :
Some literatures suggest that the side that hurts is the one that had tick bite.
Mine is right hand and right leg, although left also has symptoms but less than the right.
I highly suspected that my right hand got the bite, which also had paiful muscle. I never saw the tick though.
Lyme symptoms are so different, maybe cuz multiple coinfections, like an orchestra can play different musics.
Thus it wouldn't be a surprise.
Posted by Marnie (Member # 773) on :
Into a search engine, type in the words:
"one sided symptoms electrolyte imbalance"
Read, read, read.
With lyme, Mg drops a LOT and very fast. The other "more reactive" electrolytes go up...
Ca and K.
In time, over time, you won't be able to "hold onto" those either.
When your K level drops, you'll know it.
Posted by hatsnscarfs (Member # 6562) on :
My tick bite was on my left arm.
I had Bells Palsy on the left side. Shoulder painful for 2 years left side swirling tingling in left side of back Thumb yellow & cold left hand Pain in left ear Pain in left jaw.
However I have pain in my right knee bugs crawling up the right side of my head
I get hot & cold at night. If I turn on one side I'm cold, on the other side too warm. If I try to sleep on my back parts of me are frozen and other parts are burning up.
One sided seems to be part of the Lyme experience. Hats
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