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Posted 4/30/2020 2:01 AM (GMT 0)
I know that head neck and back are pretty standard symptoms. I mean I've had those before...this is just ridiculously unbearable.

I was feeling neck discomfort two days, then I tripped on a pillow during a nerf gun game and the next day my neck seised up in pain and now my tailbone up to my occipital bones are all majorly out of wack feeling and if I just lightly touch anywhere on sides or back of neck it Is sore like a bad bruise. Also behind my ears on my skull are sore to the touch.

It feels like I was in an accident or something and my head is tilted to the side.

Then I got an occular migraine/ blurry wavy lines today...

It's just not healthy or close to normal and I feellike I'm close to serious internal damage, blood clot, strokes I don't know .itsjust so much pain and discomfort and i can imagine anyone else I know or pass at the grocery store ever walking around with this.

Never ending.
I happen to be going through a lot of symptomslately so Am I structurally deformed or is this somehow a full infection led spine skull attack . Why would it be so severe? Is this common for infections.
Posted 4/30/2020 3:03 AM (GMT 0)
That sounds horrible - I cringed when I read it.

If it doesn’t start to feel better after a few days - I think you should see your Dr - maybe some imaging is warranted .... also a physio can be helpful.

Please keep us posted... let us know how you’re doing.
Posted 4/30/2020 3:48 AM (GMT 0)
I am not a doctor or medical expert of any kind. I will just tell you my opinion and experiences.

Yes, head, neck, and back pain are common with these infections. From what you described, I don’t think it’s borrelia, babesia, or bartonella “attacking” those areas. It seems more likely to be inflammation related to the fall and/or other factors (herxing/symptom flares).

I have had similar pain in all those places and currently feel like my body is structurally deformed. In actuality, I doubt it is. Rather, my posture and positioning is deformed due to varying degrees of inflammation in different body areas.

The inflammation we experience can be triggered by many things - Lyme/coinfections, SIBO, viruses, mold, yeast, parasites and the toxins and byproducts they produce in our bodies that cause inflammatory responses by our immune systems. Environmental toxins from mold, water damaged buildings, air and water pollution, and chemicals can cause all kinds of inflammatory responses. I have had this happen to me many times.
Posted 4/30/2020 5:15 AM (GMT 0)
These infection can make for some pretty scary and painful times.

My body was very tight from this. Would come and go, but never go completely. When that happened in the worse of times, it didnt take much of a jolt to misaligned my spine and tailbone. My neck would lock up, but it was my mid to lower back that would sometimes get a stabbing knife in my body feel - like a knife left in there radiating down my legs if I moved just the slightest bit.. In time, it actually did deform my spine per x-rays. My body slowly changed to this new normal. It would not straighten out.

One episode, I crawled in my house for two days and then crawled down the steps into my ride to the clinic. It was the only time I ever had some narcotic pain med, which I took and layed on the floor for most of the next day. That was about 15 years ago. My whole body was hot , in pain and tingly at the same time. Then I got layed off from work, my dog died, and one day woke to 80% blindness. Life really sucked, it was no longer really worth living, pointless it seemed. The only hope I had going for me was my past success as a competitive endurance athlete. It taught me not to give up. So I didnt.

Health-wise things were changing so rapidly, I really thought death was near though. With no job, I got to lay on the couch a lot and started googling more about lyme, chronic body tension, autoimmune and chronic illness in general. Went to quite a few natural health chiros ect, was functioning again, but didnt see an LLMD tiill 2013.

Last two years Ive felt the best ever of the last 30, and my spine has been slowly straightening for the last 3-4.

Prob a lot of similar stories here through out the years. You just have to bear it. For body pain Lots of magnesium (pills and topical gel) and alternating cold and hot showers if/when you can stand up. Wish I knew about topical DMSO for back pain then. I also dove deeply into myofacial muscle and triggerpiont release used on a mulit daily basis. Still do this, just much lighter. There are even very thin muscles up high on your skull. When these were tight, my neck was a mess.This is called refereed pain and is more common than most people know.
Posted 4/30/2020 5:38 AM (GMT 0)
Sorry to hear you are going through this I cringed also reading your description. Ive been there before also - bad migraine headaches,back, neck pain, visual, it got better with treatment with my lyme doc.

At that time I survived through chiropractor with my significant other pulling my neck in between appointments, lots of ice and alternating ice and gentle heat on my occipital area (back of head) where i could feel lymph nodes needed to drain from my skull

Also magic socks, lightly wet socks with heavier dry wool socks over top for bed at night to help move lymph, also burbur drops, alka seltzergold for gi symptoms.

Also epsom bath but not too hot water if you are herxing badly.

Most of all, continuing on antimicrobial treatment plan with continual detox can get you past this place! Just remember, with lyme when you feel horrid, you have to do something, like take burbur, take an epsom bath, do a lymph drainage massage (you can look it up on youtube) unlike a healthy person who gets tendonitis and has to "take it easy" to heal - our illness is different.

It gets better wuth treatment and detox, for me it did, but im not sure how long you've been at it.

At one time this helped my neck pain: Neocell Hydrolyzed Collagen Powder

And woodland essence balm


Hope you find relief

Doors12

Edit to add:

S.O. Also had to massage and release lumps and trigger points almost daily....that tightening from hips to skull i always felt was neurological...got to get it loosened up, massage the fascia...also circumin sometimes helped with the inflammation

Post Edited (doors12) : 4/29/2020 11:44:07 PM (GMT-6)

Posted 4/30/2020 1:22 PM (GMT 0)
My neck pain right now is mainly muscle pain, but I bought a cervical neck collar on amazon for like $10 and it is amazing, it feels like a pillow for my neck. I wear it for an hour or two a day and it just takes the stress off my neck for a while. It also increases blood flow and seems to help my lymph nodes drain better, which is a huge problem for me.
Posted 4/30/2020 2:39 PM (GMT 0)
My partner (who does not have Lyme) has these issues with his spine occasionally. It's absolutely miserable. Chiropractic care, craniosacral therapy, physical therapy, biofeedback, meditation, daily exercises and stretching, and managing stress help him. He takes an ibuprofen right when he feels a tweak happen. He uses a lot of CBD (both an oil he takes internally and a topical balm, both the Bill Rawls Vital Plan Select brand) when he has been stressed physically as a preventive measure, but also to relieve the inflammation and pain. Some massage can be helpful, as can working with a pair of tennis balls in a sock or a foam roller or other physical therapy tricks. Magnesium and Epsom salt baths can help.

It's crazy what a little nerve pinch or jolt can do, right? I think that Lyme can make the nerves more reactive to little insults, but stress and deconditioning can as well. And just being human. It's terrible, for sure, but it will pass!

(I bet your kids appreciated the Nerf game!)

Big hugs to you.
Posted 4/30/2020 4:12 PM (GMT 0)
I would get a head and next thermography. Cheap-easy-no radiation.
said another way I would get a dental thermography
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