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Hi Adamm... I think your question is related to my post under the topic of Kitkat's "off-balance when moving my eyes."
Over the past 4 years I have seen numerous specialists for my 40 lesions. They all seemed competent and concerned with the lesions, and their overwhelming opinion was a diagnosis of MS, lupus, and THREE big strokes.
However, no-one (except my family doc, my LLMD, and Igenex) would accept the possibility of lyme disease here. I did complete 1 1/2 years of antibiotics for lyme and babs which rid me of the most horrible brain fog stuff.
At least I was fortunate(?) enough that something positive showed for mainstream docs to see! All the specialists have since decided their diagnosises are not correct and refer to these lesions as OF UNKNOWN ORIGIN. And when I tell them I was much improved from that horrible brain fog era, they said it was impossible that antibiotics would do this. I am imagining that I am better. HA!
So, I absolutely know I have lyme, I am as good now as I am likely to be with these lesions, and these lesions were lyme-induced. My LLMD agrees with this.
I think these eye/off balance symptoms are also common with lyme folk, even without lesions. In my case, the lesions were not reversed with antibiotics, probably because I was too late diagnosed and treated.
So in that regard, lymetoo is likely correct. But having lesions, altho no picnic, does show that damage can be done to the brain that is permanent. And as per my posting in Kitkat's post, we all learn to cope as best we can.
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Does the severity of this symptom decrease if you take steroids? If so, that can be an indication the symptom is related to inflammation (from immune system activity fighting the infection).
For me, the only time in 10 years this symptom was virtually eliminated was when I tried a prednisolone taper. 30 mg of that steroid, and I felt healed! Of course, this was just masking the problem by damping down my immune response to the infection, which is why long-term use is considered dangerous. But, it does provide a way to test if your symptoms might be the immune system working overtime.
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