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I have been on lyme antibiotics for 2 years now, with some breaks.Also did a 4 month course of mepron/zith early on, which helped immensely.
A symptom that was always there but not enough to over-ride my other symptoms, was absolute pain in various joints, for various lengths of time. The joint changes between elbow, wrist, ankle, knee. I did not connect this with lyme.
Now it is unbearable. I am going to an accupressurist who is doing active release work...he feels I am loaded with arthritis, and is trying to release my tight muscles.
Is this common, to get a symptom pop up so strong, late in treatment like this? Never occured to me that it could be lyme related.
My llmd thinks that any babs should be gone with that amount of time and did not seem interested in putting me back on the yellow goo. So I am sticking with ketek/tini.
Anyone experience this? I am so sick of this stuff and can retain so little information that I research.
Thanks for advice...
Posts: 190 | From BC Canada | Registered: Jul 2004
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You didn't mention your age...that may be a factor! Are the affected joints symmetrical...for instance, both knees hurt at the same time? It could be that you have developed Rheumatoid Arthritis as a result of Lyme. You may also have just started to develop arthritis based on age.
I started with migratory joint pain but at age 38, it seemed a bit young for RA. After several months it invaded my muscles (obviously not arthritis) and I was finally able to get treatment.
Because of my age many doctors tried to convince me that I really just had arthritis, but I knew that wasn't right. There are tests to confirm arthritis...xrays as well as blood tests and none of the tests showed any sign of arthritis. If your doctors can't confirm it, keep pursuing the Lyme since that can very easily show as arthritis.
Karen
Posts: 154 | From Medford, NJ | Registered: Jun 2006
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islandgirl, I don't have an answer for 'why is this happening now', but migrating joint pain (along with tight muscles/tendons) is one of my most prominent symptoms, and the one I started out with.
I hope you can get some relief from the pain.
monkeyshines
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