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Hi all. Let me say Thanks in advance! My sister has been having respiratory infection after respiratory infection. Then a few weeks ago, she began to have pain in her elbow like a pinched nerve that caused pain - a heavy feeling in her elbow and sent pain to her neck and through her back. She is now having the same feeling in her legs. She has seen a few ER docs who prescribed - steroids which did not make a change. She continues to feel the symptoms. I remember when I first got sick 8 years ago, this sounds familiar. They are doing tests to rule out MS etc....! I am adamant that she look into lyme, but family thinks i am always thinking everything is lyme. What do you all think about her symptoms - any familiar to your experiences. I need to find her a doc in MI to rule this out correctly. Any ideas?
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I would get tested anyway. Better to be sure than sorry.
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agree with iceskater better to do than not. lyme can cause resp problems cortisone makes lyme worse lowers immune system. lymie should not have steroids period docdave130
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Hi focusonsurvival,
So sorry about your sister.
I agree with iceskater too, I think she should atleast be checked for lyme to rule it out.
If you would like the name of a doctor in Mi, you can email me at Bev4442003@yahoo, or go to the support groups listing for Michigan.
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quote:Originally posted by focusonsurvival:
Hi all. Let me say Thanks in advance!
My sister has been having respiratory infection after respiratory infection.
Then a few weeks ago, she began to have pain in her elbow like a pinched nerve that caused pain - a heavy feeling in her elbow and sent pain to her neck and through her back. She is now having the same feeling in her legs.
She has seen a few ER docs who prescribed - steroids which did not make a change. She continues to feel the symptoms .
I remember when I first got sick 8 years ago, this sounds familiar. They are doing tests to rule out MS etc....!
I am adamant that she look into lyme, but family thinks i am always thinking everything is lyme.
What do you all think about her symptoms - any familiar to your experiences. I need to find her a doc in MI to rule this out correctly. Any ideas?
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[QUOTE]Originally posted by focusonsurvival: [QB] Hi all. Let me say Thanks in advance! My sister has been having respiratory infection after respiratory infection.
Well fisrt of all, your sister has direct evidence of a respiratory infection. My lyme infections came on with pnenominia. The docs gave me a z-pack of zith and sent me on my way. 14 months later my LLMD diagnosed lyme, bart, erhlichia, babs, and myco. Once we started treatment things started to improve. When I went on zith to really start to hit the myco a lot of joint pain started to go away real fast and part of the lung issues started to resolve. What I noticed with the myco is that it had a whole layer of joint and nerve pain onto itself. once this layer was removed it was then that I could identify the difference of what the lyme pain was. It cycled where as the myco was constant and reduced very quickly with the zith, even after 4 days on ABX I felt much relief
If you look to see if your sister has any of the myco infectionss it would be a good place to start at least. Myco can cause a lot of pain and nerve issues not to mention the lung issues. It took 6 months of treatment to get my myco test levels down to normal. I was tested by quest for all the myco infections and only myco M. came up.
Erhlichia also has been know to cause lung issues. The other infections have different symptomology - babs air hunger sweats, bart crazy emotional stuff with possible foot pain and deep bone pain. And so on
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