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Posted 2/10/2012 4:31 AM (GMT 0)
A few weeks ago I posted about my toes being numb. Then last week it spread into my right hand. This week, the other day while I was holding a sleeping child, I went to move the child to the crib and my leg was completely numb and paralyzed. I couldn't move it or support any weight on it. It wasn't like a "falling asleep" thing. I had no feeling or strength in my leg and it lasted over 20 minutes.

Later that day it happened again. Then it came on again today. I decided to try to walk it off to see if it would help prevent it. When I stopped walking, I lost all feeling in both hands for over an hour and had extreme tingling.

Post Edited (Summer3) : 2/25/2012 11:37:22 AM (GMT-7)

Posted 2/10/2012 12:14 PM (GMT 0)
It sounds like you are herxing. Are you detoxing? As your treatment kills off the lyme bacteria, it lets off toxins in your body and now not only does you body have to try and kill the bacteria but it has to try and get rid of the toxins. You can help by drinking lots of lemon water, talking baths, etc. Have you tried or ask your LLMD about supplement with magnesium. Magnesium depletion is common with lyme and can cause so many symptoms.

With lyme, it is common for symptoms to move around like you are describing. Just bizarre I know. I remember when they told me it was anxiety/stress before lyme diagnosis and thinking how could anxiety cause you ankle to give way one day, your knee another and back pain to keep you at night another.

I was on antibiotics for 2 1/2 years. My LLMD described it as a climb up a mountain. There will be many valleys that you fall into but as long as you don't fall all the way back down the mountain, you are making progress. It a long slow climb. I hope that makes sense and you feel better soon.
Posted 2/10/2012 12:14 PM (GMT 0)
It sounds like you are herxing. Are you detoxing? As your treatment kills off the lyme bacteria, it lets off toxins in your body and now not only does you body have to try and kill the bacteria but it has to try and get rid of the toxins. You can help by drinking lots of lemon water, talking baths, etc. Have you tried or ask your LLMD about supplement with magnesium. Magnesium depletion is common with lyme and can cause so many symptoms.

With lyme, it is common for symptoms to move around like you are describing. Just bizarre I know. I remember when they told me it was anxiety/stress before lyme diagnosis and thinking how could anxiety cause you ankle to give way one day, your knee another and back pain to keep you at night another.

I was on antibiotics for 2 1/2 years. My LLMD described it as a climb up a mountain. There will be many valleys that you fall into but as long as you don't fall all the way back down the mountain, you are making progress. It a long slow climb. I hope that makes sense and you feel better soon.
Posted 2/10/2012 12:41 PM (GMT 0)
Thanks, I am going to ask about magnesium. I think I might also need a more effective type of b12. The one I am taking is doing nothing that I can tell, especially for energy. I take b12 at a minimum of 20,000% sublingual sometimes several times per day.

With magnesium, do the oral supplements work? I have heard a lot of people get an IV push of magnesium because it's absorbed more effectively. I can't really do any IV's unless they are covered or inexpensive.

I am detoxing as well.
Posted 2/10/2012 5:17 PM (GMT 0)
Magnesium supplements work fine for me. Be careful though, magnesium can trigger diarrhea if you start with too much at once... Many find they do better with Magnesium Glycinate.
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