Anyone have a theory on migratory joint pain?

Just wondering - I can be sitting here fine and all of a sudden get a sharp pain in anyone joint.  They have subsided greatly since feeling better but just got terrible pain in my knee and it will go totally away in a little while (I hope LOL)  Just wondering if anyone has a theory what causes this, other than lyme in general. 

Thanks Trav ! I'll take your 2 cents anyday! LOL.

Springsjean,

Are you sure you didn't upset someone who is a practitioner of voodoo?

Just asking!!! Tee hee.

I keep saying we need to buy an island where we can all go to hide out until all of this madness stops!!! Maybe if those voodoo practitioners didn't know where we were, that would help????

I'm not sure, but when we find them can we all gang up on them and give them "migratory joint pains"???? giggle!!!

I have often thought of how to describe what life with lyme is like and its almost impossible. There is no way to describe how your whole body and mind being taken over by an illness, every single day, every minute of every day. I get so frustrated with rude or uncaring remarks by the medical profession and have learned that holding that anger doesn't help. However, secretly wishing for a voodoo doll with their face on it is helpful to me in someway. LOL.

I agree Traveler. The neurological effects can be pretty darned wide-spread. A "specialist" just confirmed today that my tinitus and dizziness was caused by neurological problems probably caused by the Lyme, definitely not from inflammation in the ear. Surprise, surprise.

And Cat111, you should see the doctor's faces when I describe my headache as "Put a broom handle through one temple and out the other side, then twist it. That's the pain in the front. Then put another one up the middle of the spine in your neck and into the base of your skull and rotate that one."

The response I get the most when describing the pain is "Oh my god! You poor thing!" from both my GP and my Acu doc. It's a shame that there's nothing that I'm willing to take for my nerve pain that actually makes a dent in it. I just don't want to go into the "big guns" category with pain meds - I have an addictive personality as I found out with cigarettes and a few other minor things.

The headaches that I hate the most are what I was calling bone pain(which is that web of nerves around the bone) and then three different headaches I get - one feels like a butcher knife was just planted in the center of my brain, the second type is where it feels like a cold steel rod was just inserted in one side of my head -right at the temple - and comes out the other side, and then the back of the head, right at the base of my skull - that feels like some one has a rubber mallet and is taking out their Lyme rage!! I was getting one of those types of headaches almost daily (6 out of 7 days), although now I only have two or three each week.

I used to get another type of headache that would center on the top of my head, but I haven't had much trouble with those so much, my acu doc has told me those are caused by liver issues, and we have been working hard on my liver lately, so I'm assuming that's why those have reduced in frequency.