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Feels like your tongue after you eat ice cream sorta. It comes and goes. STays for days and leaves for days.
My speech sounds normal but it feels difficult to articulate for me.
Just wondering if anyone has this. Thanks!
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yep, i had this before being diagnosed...felt like my tongue was numb...or swollen. Made it tough to swallow... and yes talking was strange too...i used to say i couldnt feel myself talk.
went to the Er and they couldnt find anything they told me to ingore it..it wasnt really there but a sensation that my tonuge was numb.
My guess is that is the Lyme messing with you neuro system. But im not a doctor.
Are you on abx, could it be a reaction to that?
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pos babs, bart, igenex WB igm/igg Posts: 3156 | From Lyme limbo | Registered: Oct 2005
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I have the tongue problem too. Feels like it is weak when eating. Talking is a problem also. I am on IV right now.
Posts: 146 | From New Jersey | Registered: Jun 2005
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My problem is not so much with toungue, but facial numbness, and trouble speaking. I find it hard to articulate when speaking, I stammer, forget which word to use etc. I 'm starting to use my hands more when speaking, like sign language, cuz I'm afraid of what will come out of my mouth. Assuming this is neuro-related? Seeing LLMD Wed.
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I have the speech problems too. They come and go, usually last for a few weeks. I've just started tying them to the pressure in my head. It seems that when I feel pressure, that's when my speech gets funky. My tongue feels weird when I eat and I have problems articulating.My lips feel week too. It's like they're weak - don't want to form the words. When it first started I was mixing up words and everything. I couldn't think of words or I'd actually mix two words together. Very weird. My neuro doc told me it was anxiety. Whatever...........I'm seeing an LLMD on 1/13/06.
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It was such a scary symptom for me it came on in may 2003 I remember I was training a new officer (im a police officer) and he was really stressing me out, i thought it was just stress, it was years prior to my diagnosis of lyme.
I had all the neuro tests and MRI's run (MS etc)....in the end they all just said stress.....
its not its lyme and although it is one of my most stubborn symptoms it is waning after 7 months of IV and orals antibiotics....i promise it will get better with treatment....good luck...Jill
Posts: 83 | From Northern Illinois | Registered: Feb 2005
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When I was first sick and I had to read out loud in front of people I felt like it was someone else. I was used to having fluid speech, good articulation pronounciation etc...I was confident and proud of my abilities. Who was this person who was reading in groups of words, losing place, having trouble in general? Good news. I am fine now. Speaking well.
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It was one of my first Lyme sx, really scary; it got worse at the begining of tx for the first 6 months. After that it comes maybe once a month, usually during that time of the month but it so fast and very suble that what it used to be.
Take care, Lymster in WA
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