Muscle twitching

I tested positive ~2 years ago. I took antibiotics for one year. Still have neuro symtoms - slightly slurred speech, brain fog, balance. Now I started having muscle twitching.

I am wondering for others who might have experienced muscle twitching associated with Lyme, can you describe the muscle twitching? Mine is all over my body, and it is not a whole muscle at a time. It is a small area, like the size of a quarter, will just go "pop" for a second. There are more of these in my legs but it happens all over my body, and it is constant, and very frequent, there is a twitch at one place or another about once every second.

I also started noticing some tingling/numbness in my fingers. It's very subtle but I notice it when I'm playing guitar and sometimes when I'm typing on the keyboard.

This really freaked me out. Since I was on antibiotics for so long it got me questioning everything. I see some other things out there like lyme, that get misdiagnosed a lot, like mercury poisoning (from teeth filings). I'm considering having my filings removed and going on a chelation therapy, but that would be a huge shock to my system at a time when I"m already playing around with it so much. Ihave read on this forum a few people commented that they did chelation along with their lyme treatment and it helped.

I started the Buhner protocol about a week ago. I found through Green Dragon botanicals, some capsules that have the protocol all mixed together. I have had no side effects yet.

I'm really hoping I see some kind of affect on my symptoms with the Buhner protocol.

I'm wondering if there is anyone else out there that has similar neuro symptoms like me, and are your muscle twitches similar to mine? And is there any hope of them going away by taking these herbs?

thanks.

I had/have muscle twitching (exactly as you describe but not as frequent).

It developed when I was on abx and it comes and goes as part of a herx now.....and it is much improved since I started trialing Buhner's recommended herbs for Babesia (as listed in his new book).

garybeck - if you still had symptoms when you went off abx, your LLMD really should have had you continue with an herbal protocol. ILADS recommends treating for two months past full symptom resolution.

And, you might want to consider incorporating some herbs that address both babesia and bartonella. It's possible to have asymptomatic infections that can impede healing from Lyme.

Since muscle twitches can also occur with bart, it makes sense to me to start with something like Houttuynia (along with the Japanese Knotweed you're already getting in your capsules). If you herx on the Houttuynia, you'll know that you've been dealing with Bartonella or a Bartonella-like infection.

You could very well discover that this is your missing link.

I'd still be inclined to add Babesia herbs. Might as well knock out all the big guys in one shot ;)

I had muscle twitching like that. All over my body...and it would switch up, but also stay constant in one muscle.
It has gotten so much better in the past year...now it's just once in a while I get a twitch.

gary- you didn't mention if you treated just lyme, or also bart/babs?

I'm thinking the same as CD - add in the Buhner bart/babs herbs and see how it goes.

afiya4health, thanks for that video. mine is very similar. did you ever get yours to subside? if so, how?

everyone else is asking what I'm doing for treatment. I'm about 3 weeks into taking these:

http://greendragonbotanicals.com/products/lyme-protocols/lb-tonic-protocol.html

I have not noticed the twitching lessening at all since I started the protocol.

I'm not sure if that is just for bart or babs. I will have to look into that. I'm going tback to my LLMD in about 6 weeks and she wants to do another blood test. I was not tested for coinfections before.

I have the same type of muscle twitching...mine is caused by heavy metals toxicity.

To garybeck:
Yes it's subsided quite a bit. I do still have it though and it's pretty much caused by the bartonella because thats the only thing i have left. Honestly I would say start taking antibiotics. Get an appointment with a Lyme doctor or infectious disease doctor.