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I've had extensive problems w/droopy eyes, but not necessarily the puffy face. I hate the droopy eyes, because along w/what you can see, there's what you can't see, which is a really fatigued brain. I seem to have mostly gotten rid of it, and for me it seems to be caused by a combination of babesia and Lyme. When I herx, my eyes droop.
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Could be edema and/or allergy. Lots of causes for both of those. I hope they figure it out soon.
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forgot to say that the one drug that seems to have helped the most in getting rid of the droopy eyes is roxithromycin, which I'm taking w/Mepron for babesia. I had more of a result w/roxy than w/azithromycin, which i was taking before.
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Myestheia Gravis causes droopy eyes.
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I've had this since I was about 10. My mom and dad and now my husband can just look at my face and see how sick I am. They don't even have to ask how I feel when my eyes droop and the skin around looks puffy like I cried the night before. I think it started when I got Lyme- one of my first symptoms.
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Could be low thyroid, could be Bells Palsy.
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It's not Myestheia Gravis because I looked at images on the internet. The eyelids do not droop. It's the outside edges on the side of the eyes that are pulled down on both eyes.
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quote:I've had this since I was about 10. My mom and dad and now my husband can just look at my face and see how sick I am.
My experience with my son is the same as soleil16, we can tell when he is feeling the worst, he gets kind of a puffy face. It is really subtle, not the kind of thing that a doctor would note, but we can tell. It comes and goes, and this symptom is decreasing in frequency with continued abx treatment.
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