Shoulder Lyme "Bursitis"

flowergal

Regular Member

Joined : Sep 2011

Posts : 466

Posted 9/29/2011 4:23 PM (GMT 0)

Long story short my shoulder hurt, got two cortisone type shots within two months which did not help my shoulder/arm but did seem to set off the undiagnosed Lyme which I tested positive for shortly thereafter.

Has anyone else experienced the Lyme Bursitis? How do you treat that? I am on a new cocktail of Cipro and Zithromax which seems to be helping my brain, fatigue, no sore throat, hair stopped falling out, no longer dizzy but still have shoulder arm pain. Am on the sugar free diet.

Any thoughts?

Cat111

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Joined : Nov 2010

Posts : 571

Posted 9/30/2011 12:25 PM (GMT 0)

My left shoulder has been flaring up lately, more than ususal-- rotator cuff pain, deltoid muscle pain--- that comes and goes.

I actually thought this was unrelated to Lyme-- just good old (older person's) bursitis or some such.

But yesterday I had one of my follow-up appointments with my LLMD and when I mentioned my 'bum' shoulder to him and that I thought it was NOT a Lyme issue, he chuckled (warmly) and said it WAS Lyme.

I have to believe him because there really is no physical reason for my shoulder to hurt.

The tip off is the come and go pain that moves around. If I really had a shoulder injury of some sort, it would hurt all the time. And it doesn't.

Being completely pain free for days on end.....and then suddenly having stabbing muscle pain and rotator cuff pain for half a day (that resolves just as quickly as it came on)......is SO Lyme. At least in my case.

I just let the pain run its short course, knowing it will go away with my continued ABX treatment.

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