HealingWell
Search Close Search
☰

Odd Feeling in Part of Nose

Support Forums
>
Lyme Disease
✚ New Topic ✚ Reply
❬ ❬ Previous Thread |Next Thread ❭ ❭
Posted 1/9/2020 3:52 PM (GMT 0)
This is a strange new symptom, and like anything that happens now, I am a bit paranoid on what it may mean now.

After sleeping a good while, and only after sleeping a good while, the inside of the right side of my nose feels numb or different. It's only the right side and just a small area. I don't see swelling on that side of nose or eye or if it is, it's minor. It always goes back to normal after being awake for a few minutes and does not happen again until I go to sleep the next night.

Dealing with some autoimmune issues with the Lyme so not even sure which is likely causes. Anyone experience this?
Posted 1/11/2020 11:35 AM (GMT 0)
Hi Running wild,
I did have weird numbness in my nose/sinus area before. More so when I was herxing. It did go away with continued treatment . I had Bartonella pretty strong and always thought it was from that.

Also bumping this for more views.
Posted 1/11/2020 1:46 PM (GMT 0)
I have experienced lots of weird numbness and paresthesias. Sounds like inflammation to me, either nerve inflammation or other inflammation that affects a nerve. Do you have very dry air in your house this time of year, or anything that you might be slightly allergic to at night? For me it has happened when I'm combatting inflammation within the nasal or sinus cavity; even a slight inflammation can make things wonky, especially if it's from a virus - any chance you are fighting something off? Our bodies also manage such things more poorly while we're asleep, so it makes sense that it's only happening to you at night. I'm sure it's unsettling, but I don't think it means anything aside from the usual Lyme shenanigans.
Posted 1/11/2020 7:51 PM (GMT 0)
goshawk - I've wondered a lot about Bart and if it is in play. Everything jumbles together with all in play - Lyme, autoimmune, kidneys.

saraeli - Funny you should mention inflammation. I just received the tummeric I ordered to help with that. But I have never had a test, during all the years of dealing with Lyme and whatever, that showed inflammation. ESR, CRP and others. I must have had 60-70 tests for inflammation over the years, all very low markers. But there has to be some inflammation with all going on.

Have not though about dry air from heater. And it is only while asleep, which fits your thoughts. If I knew this was Lyme and not autoimmune, I'd actually feel better. But i just don't know as eyes itch also. The only virus I have is EBV, which has been positive IgM for a year or more.
Posted 1/11/2020 8:03 PM (GMT 0)
I don't know of any non-invasive tests that measure neurological inflammation. Are there any? My tissue inflammation tests are always fine, too. But I believe I have widespread nerve inflammation. Isn't that what's causing most neurological symptoms for folks with Lyme? Love to hear others' thoughts on this. I feel like I know this is what's happening, but maybe I'm just connecting dots to make myself feel better. smile
Posted 1/11/2020 9:03 PM (GMT 0)
Your question is a good one. saraeli. That is what throws me - I know I've had Lyme and con-infections and now, it seems, autoimmune. Yet all inflammation tests I have ever taken remain negative, as in can't get much or any better. So if we know Lyme and other problems involve inflammation, how can one possibly have 60-70 tests that show no inflammation and is there a way to check nerve inflammation?
Posted 1/11/2020 10:44 PM (GMT 0)
saraeli, from everything that I have read and come to understand about lyme disease in the past year and a half, I believe that lyme is all about inflammation. I thought it was more than just neurological symptoms that are cause by inflammation, however. And I fell the same as you do, I know that is what is happening to me. J clinic was the first to explain the nerve inflammation in cranial nerves to me and then once I learned so much more, I thought yea, the things that I feel really make sense now.
✚ New Topic ✚ Reply