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NUTBOBUTT
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I'm trying to think back and I think since starting on Mino back in April that I have gradually been losing the ability to use my arms and hands since then.

I added in Ceftin (per my LLMD) about 3 weeks ago.

I used to have alot of muscle pain and I think I still do. But my hands are so swollen and so are my writsts.I feel like it is really hitting my joints now too.

When I reach for something or bend my arm the wrong way it feels like I have a major charley horse in my bicep and into my shoulder.

Anyone else or thoughts on this??
Thanks, I don't know what I would do if I could not turn to this website. You all are the best.


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Michelle M
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Hi there.

Are you getting enough potassium?

My legs do that Charley-horse thing a lot when I stretch -- they kind of want to permanently stay that way...hurts! I have to forcefully bend them back the other way to make 'em stop.

Do you have any loss of sensation or numbness or tingling in your arms, or just muscle soreness?

Up for any other arm-knowledgeable people...sorry can't add more.

Michelle


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Hi,

Hand swelling and pain are one of my main symptoms with the Lyme. Sausage fingers - soooo attractive. Sigh.

Anyway, I noticed the past few days (and only since I started some new supplements) also that my arms and legs have that sort of charley horsey crampy thing going on.

And my arms and legs are harder to use than usual (it would amost be easier to type this with my nose). I feel like frankenstein when I walk. It's not quite a cramp . . . it's like a different kind of cramp.

So my theory is that it may be a symptom of herxing a bit. Maybe that causes some sort of lactic acid buildup in the muscles?

For whatever it's worth, what could have caused this herxing for me was mostly anti-candida stuff that I just started taking (oil of oregano, caprylic acid, oilve leaf, grapefruit seed extract...), or it could be any of the following which I also just started taking: Acetyl-L Carnitine, Colostrum, 5 HTP...OR....the parasite formula (wormwood, clove, walnut hull).

Hope you feel better!

Alison


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Thanks for the post; my minocycline did all that you mentioned. I had to get off for awhile. At least now I feel better knowing it might have been lactic acid--I am lactose int as it is. I went back to Ceftin with Zithro. Got tired of the no arms thing. Hated it; still have it, but not as severe.
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Michelle,

I think I'm getting enough potassium. And I will occasionally get some numbness and tingling but usually there's a reason for it . Like I've been laying on it or something.

But!!! I really had a problem of numbness and tingling in my arms before I started to loose the ability to use them.

I do have very high sed rates so I'm sure that has something to do with all this.

I just was wondering if anyone else experienced this while on Mino.
Lynette


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