Random symptom: hands or feet "fall asleep" a lot?

This is sort of random symptom when compared with everything else Lyme patients suffer. But I was wondering if anyone else noticed their limbs falling asleep faster than normal or perhaps more frequently? By falling asleep, I mean that tingling sensation you get when the blood flow gets cut off for a period of time. I use to sit with my legs folded under me all the time.

I think I may be herxing, cause I can feel it more often. Plus, Like now as I'm typing this I can feel that tingling in my hands and wrists. The only other time i get this feeling is if I'm having an anxiety attack, then I get that feeling all over my body.

Oh and does any one know the best way to deal with "air hunger?"

Thanks!

Buhner's recommends red root for rouleau which can cause that symptom. It is apparently common in bartonella infections. My tingling symptoms resolved when I started using red root. Although the other bart herbs were helpful for my other symptoms, only red root helped tingling.

http://www.redrootmountain.com/red-root-balance-the-body-by-way-of-the-spleen/66

http://bearmedicineherbals.com/ceanothus.html

"As a tonic, you need to understand that Red Root, particularly the tincture, helps to diminish the tendency for red blood cells to clump together in blood that is either high in fat chylomicrons (after a heavy meal, as an example) or with elevated inflammatory compounds (from allergic, sensitizing or other immunologic responses), a condition called rouleau. Another way to describe it is having sticky or viscous blood, with adhering constituents and diminished surface tension or charge. Red Root kicks up the charge, helps blood cells and inner vessel linings repel each other better, the blood, while not changing chemistry, changes its osmolality and flows better. This aids the transport across capillary walls of diffuse substances and the non-protein fractions of blood that becomes interstitial fluid and lymph.”

The tingling is a bart thing I think. I'm currently taking A-Bart and have it a lot more lately than I used to (herxing).

I had that. I actually fell several times because my legs fell asleep. Now that I am better it has greatly diminished.

I have def noticed also that limbs/feet tend to fall asleep way faster and go into a "deeper sleep" then they used to! Harder to "wake" them up!


-Courtney

Mine is usually in my left hand too. Sometimes it migrates to other parts of my body, but it's usually there on the left.

vast,

Thanks, that's actually what I was thinking, about my circulation being poor. I know you're not a doctor, Or maybe you are I don't know. But would that also effect my spleen or maybe the other way around. I've been having pain on my left side, pretty constant and I'm worried it's my spleen. I'm having issues with my digestive system where I have pain on both my right and left sides. I FINALLY have an endoscopy scheduled for the end of the month (nine days and counting) to check for an ulcer or possibly cancer. I admit I'm scared and terrified of what they might find.

But sometimes the pain on my left side feels like it's further over than where my stomach is, so I figured maybe it's the spleen. I started looking into red root, but never heard of Serrepetase. Does it have another name is goes by?

Thanks for the advice. Hesitant about the enemas though.