Eye symptoms

My eyes feel smaller and look reddish/yellowish today. Does that mean the bacteria are actually in my eyeball? A lot of my symptoms have been from the neck up, does that mean something in particular? Ty

My very first symptom was the ant dance on my midsection. After that it was the crawling itchy cobweb feeling on my face especially around eyes and that was pretty much my only symptom for 7 months. Then I started having numbness in my hands which moved up to my elbows. Fatigue and weakness was next then sleeplessness headaches/pressure in head bottoms of feet burning/mainly the right one just like my hand .. emotional with crying jags heart beating hard core vibrations which will sometimes stop on a dime for like a split second then resume again .. upset stomach feelings like a fly lands on me. Last Monday I woke up with first symptom of pain,although not too bad, in my right hand like arthritis. I've only had the red eye thing a couple of times before and today is the first time I've noticed it looks yellowish too. I think that's about it. It seems weird to me that I only had the face thing for 7 months but all the rest of the symptoms have come on since April/first of may - so only a couple months.

Sweetlife when I, and my husband both initially got lyme, our eyes were so bloodshot. We looked like we were smoking pot. It is a symptom of lyme to have red eyes and it is nothing to worry about.

Now the yellow eyes can be a liver problem. I would call my doctor and ask them to run a liver enzyme test to make sure my liver was okay.

Ant dance is like taking a styrofoam cup and cutting out the bottom... place it against your skin and throw in a bunch of ants.
That was my very first symptom before the whole face thing started and then I didn't feel it again until 8 months later and then it was again on my midsection

Sweetlife said...

So does having certain symptoms in a certain area tell where the bacteria is? Like doesn't the tingling indicate that it's in the spine somewhere?

it's very complicated. The immune system finds pieces of dead lyme bacteria, some of the pieces resemble myelin which is the sheath of the nerves. The immune system then creates antibodies that are attaching to your nerves, then your T cells will attack your nerves and destroy some of this myelin, which will give u numbness, tingling, eye issues (the optic nerve), brain fog, etc... based on where the T cells manage to get. It is an aberrant immune response, so don't think your body is fighting the lyme bacteria in your brain, not even that is clear... Usually there's nothing wrong with the eye optics, just with the conduction to the brain (the nerve). But occasionally the retina can get inflammated too, especially if u have coinfections.

So when it comes to neural tissue, the parts that hurt are not necessarily where the bacteria is... it may or may not be that ...

if you are looking for simple answers to questions about lyme, think this critter has a life that involves 3 different types of mammals , it starts in a small mouse (white footed) then gets carried around by deer where it also mates, then gets occasionally to other large mammals like us, then back to the small mouse (which is the reservoir)... and it is able to survive in all these bodies and disseminate, so, it's NOT a simple infection for which u can get simple answers to anything.

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Nothing is simple with this darn thing...

My gosh this stuff is just beyond complicated.. what a nightmare! Ugh

No I didn't get any specific liver test run, I guess I just assumed that the CBC would show some sort of elevation of sorts if the liver was not functioning properly. I started having some pain in that area last night and I'm wondering now if I maybe have overdone it on the liquid stevia. I was putting like 3-4 dropperfulls in my big tumbler of lemonade and realized that I also put it in several cups of coffee and tea yesterday. I had it in my head that it was a natural plant and the amount would be nothing but beneficial.