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anyone experience carppal tunnel since being bitten? i started to notice this a few weeks ago and thought must be lyme related since i'm not on a computer all day, well since being bitten i have been....lol...but then sometimes i have a hard time distringuishing what part of my arm feels funny? sometimes it seems like it comes from my back (scapula) all the way down and sometimes it's my upper arm, talk about sounding like a nut case when people ask your symptoms....
gee i don't know sometimes i feel like my fingers freeze, but then it feels like tendonitis in my elbow, is it me?
i'm actually feeling better since being on the doxy....half my face keeps going numb but i woke up this morning feeling 70 instead of 100 so that's progress right? can't wait for the day i wake up feeling 39 as i only have a few months of that age left....yikes
karen
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bettyg
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Karen, that's another lyme symptom. I've had it bad so PCP recommended the carpal tunnel wrist splints, and they do help.
Also have used them at bedtime since that's when my hands ache/throb at that time of the night. Bettyg
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Aniek
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I was misdiagnosed with tendinitis in my wrists before Lyme. I thought it was carpal tunnel at first.
It turned out the direct cause was actually tight muscles in my thoracic area that referred the pain to my hands and wrists. The tight muscles were caused by the Lyme.
If you use wrist braces, be careful not to overuse them. I was told to wear wrist braces constantly, and the pain became much, much worse because my hands and wrists were so weakened from lack of use.
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groovy2
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Hi Karen
Yep I had the carpal tunnel type stuff--
I figured that I had worn out my wrists racing motorcycles-- It hurt like Hello-- I could not hold a pencil or hold a beer--
Looking back I think it was caused by Babs mostly- after I started babs treatment my joint pain is 99% gone--
Before I started babs treatment I took Glucosimine Sulfate -2000 mg a day- It Really helped --Im sure that if I had not taken the glucosimine is would be in a wheel chair now--For Sure--
For me Babs caused at least 80% of my joint pain--
Babs causes joint pain that is transziot (moves around day to day) and it is extreamily painful--Jay--
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