Numbness in right foot, tingling in left hand now

Good morning,

I took Flagyl for 14 days and posted that I was experiencing a huge flair in my tingling/vibrating. I went off the meds because of the potential for permanent neuropathy. Anyway, I thought I noticed it slightly yesterday but now I definitely notice it...I have a slight numb sensation on the top of my right foot. Most of my symptoms have always been on the left. Also, my left hand is tingling and that has never happened to me.

I'll be honest...my anxiety has been over the top these last few days with all this going on.

Does anyone here have any opinions...I am wondering if I am just simply herxing really bad or if this is a result of the medication. I've been researching and everything I read says that to get the neuropathy issues from the meds, you have to be on a really high dose for at least 30 days if not longer. I was only on it for 14 days. But it also says to proceed with caution of you have central nervous system issues.....which I think I do given that most of my lyme issues are nerve related...

This has probably been the hardest two weeks I've had since starting on treatment. My doctor gave me Ketec and Omnicef but I think I need to take a week off and recoup from this whole Flaygl thing. I'm going back on the Zithromax and Rifampin which was my last combo that I seemed to tolerate well. I need a break mentally and physically from all of this.

Thanks...

Oh you sound so overwhelmed - I'm so sorry!

Probably about a few months ago, out of the blue I was having numbness and tingling in body parts I wasn't used to - I remember my right foot being one of them and just being so...surprised at how unusual it was for me not to be able to feel my right foot. In the beginning of treatment I had the pins & needles type of tingling all over my body - like it felt more like my skin than my nerves, if that makes sense - that was pretty much 24/7 but it's actually gone away, finally!

To me it sounds like herxing - although unfortunately I can't tell you for sure. In the meantime, are you doing anything for the anxiety? In the beginning of my treatment - and to this day, sometimes, the anxiety in regard to all my symptoms, and anxiety in general AS a symptom, are what pushes me over the edge and what makes being sick/in treatment so unbearable.