For me at least B vitamins... particularly B12 seem to be very important.

Right now we are just using minocycline, and having very few problems with it. I
m sure our Dr. will be rotating us through various things over time, but the plan is just orals. (She doesn't even offer IV ABX.)

Facial numbness, strange muscle twitches here and there and that sort of thing seems to be fairly common with Lyme, even recently acquired Lyme. I don't think it indicates advanced disease or serious neurological damage.

A couple of weeks ago my wife had one cheeck so numb that she bit the inside of it and made a big blood blister. But now that numbness has completely reversed. Things like that have come and gone, but none of it has seemed to cause permanent harm. The left side of my face has a partially numb feeling sometimes, but no drooping. Just a strange sensation of numbness. (Right now, for instance.)

Understand we aren't THAT sick with this. All of the other symptoms... achy muscles, sore joints, unexplained fevers, headaches, foggy brain, etc could be just explained away as getting older. Or a touch of flu. Never bad enough to send you to a Dr., or bad enough the Dr. would do anything if you did go.

The neuro stuff on the other hand is strange enough to make one suddenly VERY motivated to find out what was wrong... and be persistant enough to pursue it until we did.

It takes ALOT of hard work and persistance to go from a suspicion you MAY have Lyme to the point of finally having a proper diagnosis and getting treatment.

We managed to figure out what was wrong and get help fairly quickly with minimal medical abuse, with many thanks to kind people here who pointed us in the right direction and kept us out of medical black holes.

Thanks everyone... Again!

I also make sure to take B12 and a good multi-vitamin with essential minerals and herbs.

I also have TMJ symptoms that have got somewhat better, but do still persist.

The other thing the Dr. we are seeing is doing is looking at alot of different aspects of our health, and doing something about ANYTHING ELSE she finds wrong.

In my case a lab test showed a very low testosterone level, probably induced by Lyme messing with my regulatory mechanisms. I would NEVER have even thought to check for stuff like that, but she is very thorough!

Anyway I was perscribed a gel that soaks in through the skin for this. The effect of getting this hormone back to normal is not so much what one would assume. Most noticably I just feel healthier, with more energy, and more NORMAL again. Not so tired.

I had similar stuff early on...abx helped some, but the IMT(Intergrated Manual Therapy) treatment cleared up all the rest.

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