Tell me about your sore joints! When do they hurt/ in what way??

Hi everyone,

The reason I ask is because I never really considered that my knee pain I get sometimes could have anything to do with Lyme, but now I'm wondering. I always just attributed to me having a weak body. My friends would laugh at me, saying I was like an old lady.

When I would get knee pain, it would be if i did the treadmill, walked really fast/ intensely, or biked. Or the other day when I did an aerobics class. It was my first one and my knees felt hot inside and sore afterwards.

The pain for me using just feels like pain, like the joint or bone or something. Sometimes hot inside.

So my questions are:

1) Do they hurt ALL the time?

2) Or do they hurt with mild/ vigorous exercise?

2) What does it feel like when they hurt?

Thank you, and sorry for all the questions! Just trying to arm myself with as much information as I can for my next doctor appointment with my Lyme doctor.

Okay, this is the deal with mine. I've read different experiences from others.

I ONLY feel the knee pain though they are chronically inflammed in cartilage and tendons if:

1)I bend my knees to sit on the floor on bent knees. I can only go down so far as they won't take my weight. Joints feel to thick to bend. Cartilage and tendons feel like they are ripping. Really painful.

2) If I bike. Grades impossible, sharp shooting pains. (Can't bike now too sick.)

3) If I swim. The kicking movement.

4) Stairmasters etc. Try to run they give out and shoot sharp sharp pain through joint and knee cap.

*So exercise, stress movement my knees can't take. No burning, not sore. If I don't do that, I don't notice pain.

*It was bad on stairs, getting up from couch, sitting down or getting up from toilet, now that type of pain is gone. No pain with those movements now.

I am in great shape, ex runner fitness girl and this came on July 2011 and now with the primary taking me out being neuro and fatigue and no sleep and feel sick I'm toast. Never had knee pain till I got sick.

So that is what I am feeling with the knee stuff.

Post Edited (waverunner) : 3/18/2012 10:24:05 AM (GMT-6)

Thank you guys for all your replies!

It seems like each one of us is so different, but that is almost comforting.


@mercuryb - have you been diagnosed with Lyme? If so, have you noticed much difference in your knees since treatment?

Thanks everyone! I hope we get more people writing in!

i had a clinical diagnosis 8 years agol; had 4-5 bands or 5-6 bands from igenex.

but i had literaly 100's of tick bites a year growing up in western canada; then moved to ontario in my mid 30's and i believe was hit with many black sand fly bites that gave me bartonella as i came down with flu from hell for a month, that seemed to create severe weakness in legs, I remember being hardly able to walk for that month..just aching legs

then in late 40's was bit on face at night by what i believe was a brown recluse spider as it swelled up like golf ball for a few weeks (ie lyme)

my knees and legs through have only gotten bad in last 1.5 years as i believe bart took over my body

however i have read lyme goes after joints, cartilage and collagen and knees have all of these I believe more than other areas

also, the blood flow in lower extremities are more effected by lyme (ie thick blood)..so it makes sense that knees get hit, as borderlyme implied ..my knees have felt better doing this vibrational treatment www.zazzstudios.com and as love health mentioned in todays thread, this autocross bouncing around worked up her body temps and is good for blood flow

i was telling my cranial sacral lady today about the vibrational machine and she said there is this therapist's book out who practises this chinese movement excercise that basically says jumping around and waving hands/arms up and down moves energy-bloood flow..i know this is hard though if you have knee isues..no jumping

maybe a cheap rebounder might help support knee energy flow and lots of proteolytc enzymes. i swear taking 4-5 of this Virastop supplement enzyme by Enzymedica is helping me sleep by keeping blood thinned out at night. plus i am waking up with less stiffness and soreness in am

Post Edited (mercuryb) : 3/18/2012 4:19:58 PM (GMT-6)

My joints and muscles hurt off and on. They were pretty sore when I first got Lyme. The soreness seemed to go away after treatment and now its back, six months later.

When I first got Lyme, I was riding a bicycle a lot and as I peddled my knees felt like they were crackling. I was on a farm and was assigned to hand-milk the goats for a week. When I woke up on the second day, my arm muscles seemed unusually sore...not the type of soreness you get after weight-training...it felt more like bruised muscles, if that makes sense.

I definitely had lymes I know because of the huge bulls eye around a tick bite.

most of my pains hurt all the time though the mornings and evenings are the most difficult.

I can't exercise. Eating, hygiene and doctor visits are my exercise. The commute to the doctor takes alot out of me, being bumped around in the car. Actually most of these activities cause pain, till i rest (lay down) then i get some relief.

My pains feel like stiff aches. (Knees, neck, back, arms, hands, legs, feet, ankles) If I bend my pinky finger it's so tight I can barely do it. I have random muscle cramps too in my legs they get so bad and tight. My girl has to rub them with her elbows to relieve the tension. I'm on major muscle relaxers too my the knots laugh at the meds petty attempt.

My question is and may deserve a new post is: How quickly is damage done when were not being diagnosed properly. I had relapse symptoms 2yrs ago and I'm just now finding out it may be lymes.