LymeNet Flash: Back tingling now numb

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 » Back tingling now numb

UBBFriend: Email this page to someone!

Author

Topic: Back tingling now numb

hatsnscarfs
LymeNet Contributor
Member # 6562

posted

Since getting Lyme I get what I call "roaming tingles" a swirling tingling feeling that starts suddenly and usually lasts for a few seconds. At first it was in my upper back and shoulders. Every few months it moves a bit.The sensation is on the surface of my skin.

Recently it moved lower into my mid back on the left side. The last few days the feeling changed from tingling to numbness. This numbness comes and goes and has a little tingling with it. It is getting more frequent.

Tonight the sensation became much more intense. The tingling swirling feeling wasn't just on the surface as usual but went deep into my back and was very intense. Over the last hour I'm getting more frequent tingling and/or numb feelings in various parts of my back and shoulders and occaisionally in my arms hands and legs.

Has anyone else had tingling turning into numbness?

I'm hoping this is a sign the tetracycline has found some more Lyme to stir up and kill. I'm wondering if this increase in symptoms is a sign of progress or the opposite.

hatsnscarfs

Posts: 956 | From MA | Registered: Nov 2004 | IP: Logged |

robi
Frequent Contributor (1K+ posts)
Member # 5547

posted

I have had the swrling tingling thing in one of my legs and on my back.

Itnever bothered me much because i wasn't painful. I mostly ignore it.

It seems to flare or retur wheI stch tretment. Guess its a herx..... so its goood.

robi

Posts: 2503 | From here | Registered: Apr 2004 | IP: Logged |

Oz
LymeNet Contributor
Member # 2905

posted

Yes, I had similair tingling and numbness. I had a spot on my back about the size of a dinner plate that would go numb. Some of my initial symptoms included complete numbness in both elbows that spread up to my armpits. These symptoms gradually have subsided following about two years of treatment for both Lyme and babesia. I wouldn't exactly call these symptoms progress
but symptoms that will progressively go away.

Posts: 228 | From Wassaic NY. USA | Registered: Aug 2002 | IP: Logged |

Foggy
Frequent Contributor (1K+ posts)
Member # 1584

posted

My LLMD calls this Lyme Paresthesias. He said it's a form of neuropathy caused by bb. He said it should improve with treatment.

Posts: 2451 | From Lyme Central | Registered: Aug 2001 | IP: Logged |

AZURE WISH
Frequent Contributor (1K+ posts)
Member # 804

posted

That is how my toes ankles feet and halfway up my calf were.... tingly then numb.... they got so numb you could have jabbed me with a pin and I would not have felt it at all....

It has started to get better though...
I'm very greatful to my dr. and ketek.

Even though the numbness was annoying it wasn't that bad of a symptoms cuz I already couldn't drive and had problems walking due to pain.

Best wishes

Posts: 3860 | From nj,usa | Registered: Mar 2001 | IP: Logged |

hatsnscarfs
LymeNet Contributor
Member # 6562

posted

Yes, this symtom is annoying but not as bad as the painful ones. Too bad I didn't have the numbness when my major symptom every night was feeling like my legs & feet were being pricked with pins.

I am concerned though because the numbness is getting worse. Today my face which had been improving was more numb (on the Bell's Palsy side) I was alarmed by numbness in the back of my nose and tingling in my lip on my "good" side. My ears also felt worse than they had in a while. I hope I'm not getting Bell's Palsy on the other side now.

I went to the chiropractor today. He did a lot of neck adjustments and I feel better than this morning.
hats

Posts: 956 | From MA | Registered: Nov 2004 | IP: Logged |

arg82
Frequent Contributor (1K+ posts)
Member # 161

posted

Yep, I have parts of my back go numb at times. It seems to move around and usually mine seems to be brought on by sitting up for too long (how long "too long" is seems to vary - sometimes it's within minutes, sometimes after an hour or more). I haven't really figured out why this happens but it does get worse when my Lyme is worse so I know it's connected. I just brush it off as another quirky Lyme symptom.

--Annie

------------------

Lyme Out Retreat Website

Lyme Disease Awareness Products

Click here to join Lyme Pals.

Click here to see my Lyme journal.

Posts: 2184 | From Rochester, MA | Registered: Oct 2000 | IP: Logged |

DolphinLady
LymeNet Contributor
Member # 6275

posted

I have this feeling but in my feet. I believe its peripheral neurapathy due to the flagyl in my case.

I just wanted others to know this sort of thing could be neurapathy which lyme can cause among all the other damage it does.

Posts: 925 | From California | Registered: Sep 2004 | 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/