trails
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I did a post like this in the past. I want to hear from YOU. many articles say lymme disease has symptoms of "MUSCLE PAINS" or "MAYLGIAS". but what does this mean to YOU?
To me right now it means....(and this changes acoording to what treatment i am doing and the weather and god knows what else)
1) Pain that comes on somewhat quickly--within 10 seconds and lasts anywhere from 15 seconds to 15 minutes at a time and repeats anywhere from once a day to several times a hour.
2) It is deep and seems almost like a lump. There is no lump or cramp. It is just that the pain is confined to one area.
3) It feels sort of like someone just punched me there but I didnt feel the blow, just the pain afterwards.
4) I typically get these pains in the same places, but occassionally in new areas.
Now it's your turn, please describe your muscle pain.
please.
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AZURE WISH
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The muscle pain I have had was in my arms and legs. at the worst it was constant.
It felt like my muscles were being sliced open.
Now it comes and goes and migrates. It still only seems to effect the muscles in my arms and legs.
If it is sharp it is usually more like a shooting pain lasting minutes probably...
If it is more of an ache it seems to last longer. (hours)
Of course because I was so sick so long my muscles are not in the greatest shape so sometimes I pull them pretty easy...
so if the pain lasts days I usually assume that it was a muscle pull and not a lyme pain.
trails
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Thank you AZURE! I get that awful slicing feeling too. I call it razor blade biceps. It feels like there are razor blades in my biceps. But I was told that this was NERVE pain and not actual muscle pain. who knows---it is pain, right?
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trueblue
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Hmmm... There are an awful lot of muscle type pains to choose from... where to start?
So, in no particular order (just as they pop into my head)...
1) There's the muscles all over aching so badly you can't find a place for yourself. Like the type you get when you've got the flu or a significant fever coming on.
2) Tightness with that aching
3) Spasms, those are fun, it took a long time before my benign and fairly entertaining twitches decided to turn into this nasty on occassion.
4) Giant knots in muscles reandering them about unusable and generally referring pain to other areas. Very popular with the muscles across the top of my shoulders, back of neck, surrounding area and left thight.
5) Also sudden pains in various and sundry muscles for no discernable reason.
6) What feel like pulled muscles for no reason just doing what your doing and something is just plain wrong out of the blue.
7) feeling like a muscle is torn in half, for example across the bicep.
8) feeling really bruised and sore when muscles are touched and I didn't even know they hurt.
I'm not explaining any of these very well. Sorry! I'll come back and edit it into something normal later, maybe.
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I get that flu achey all over muscle soreness that makes me want to puke and put up the "out of business" sign.
There's also that upon waking feeling that somebody short-sheeted my hamstrings all the way around the top of my hip bones down my calves to my feet.
Howzabout the foot fairy messing with the points in your feet over night, so that when you swing your feet onto the floor and reach for them to massage... you notice that your neck and shoulder sockets are too sore to hold your arms out for long...
Then there's the gotta cross quickly at the crosswalk moment when your calves feel like they're about to charlie-horse on you and your butt muscles are on too tight...yet your legs simultaneously feel weak.
Or, the brushing your teeth moment of realizing that you have tennis elbow and carpel tunnel and you don't play tennis and haven't been in a tunnel...
And, also the eye muscles connected to the jaw muscles that tighten and burn...
Also the lower back muscles that spaz so much that sitting on the john is a difficult art in strategizing on how to get down there...
...feel like I walk around all hunched like a racoon confused by the sun!
Pain ranges from nuisance to debilitating. Humor only helps sometimes.
wiserforit
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My main pain, and the #1 symptom that prompted me to seek medical attention, is an excruciating stabbing pain. It has happened almost all over my body, usually concentrated in 1 or 2 very small areas at a time. Sometimes it lasts for a couple of minutes, sometimes it throbs on and off for up to 10 minutes at a time. These pains are the worst.
Also: ~In my chest area and my face, this stabbing often turns into a burning sensation.
~eye-related pain, sometimes a burning or stabbing or severe ache throughout the eye, sometimes feeling like somebody is trying to scoop my eyeball out of it's socket with a spoon.
~achy joint and muscle pain, like the flu or a strain/twist, that has lasted in the same place for up to 3 days.
~muscle twitches
~muscle weakness - crossing the street yesterday, I fell when I rolled my ankle... in flats, on a flat surface. Happens all the time.
I've been told the stabbing-related stuff is nerve pain and muscle pain. Not sure, but I thought I'd mention it.
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Re-read my post and realized "for up to 10 minutes at a time" is misleading, because a small break can occur and then it can start again.
Also, all of my pain symptoms have previously come and gone in "flares;" symptomatic for 1-3 months, generally pain-free for 1-3 months. I've often wondered if that is consistent with lyme or not... any input?
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Aniek
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1. My most constant muscle pain is my upper back and shoulders. Very tight muscles. With ache and sharp pain. At its worst, I've described it as feeling like somebody is slicing the muscle from the bone with a burning hot knife.
That pain is almost constant. It was gone on Flexeril, but my system stopped handling the Flexeril.
2. Tight muscles after over-exertion. Sometimes after too much yoga, which is my only exercise. Tight and burning in the muscles.
3. While on Biaxin and Levaquin, I had a burning in my quads and muscles around my hips. The whole muscle would burn and tingle.
4. Referred pain from the tight muscles. This isn't muscle pain per se, but it's caused by muscles. In my hands, it is a very sharp pain that feels like it is along the bones. In my feet, it's deep in my ankle and then burning within the muscle.
5. Bruise feeling. Sometimes my muscles just feel like there is bruise somebody is pushing down on.
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5dana8
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Just like the flu-all over deep muscle aches. Way worse while herxing.
It sometimes will settle in a specfic area like my back & neck and right arm ect.. It likes to travel.
Much better in the all over deep muscle aches since treatment but still have temp flares.
The only thing that has helped over the years is a warm epson soaks and or a mosit heat pad and also a vibrator in the area's that flare.
Hope you feel better soon
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