Hands Won't Work

For months I've been having problems with my hands not working. I'm dropping things all the time. It's getting worse.

Tonight I was getting a tray of burgers out from the oven's top rack from the broiler , and twice, yes, two seperate times I dropped the entire thing into the oven! What a mess. The second time it happend, mind you about four minutes apart, I took off the mitts, turned around with the oven door hanging open, burgers, grease and pans all on the bottom of the oven, and I just walked away. I was finished. I couldn't even look at it. My 24 yr old son, who I had asked to please cook them for me earlier and didn't, I guess he finished up. Didn't clean the oven, mind you, but got the food on the table. I didn't eat. I was up in the bedroom trying to calm down.

I'm tired of this. Glassing and dishes breaking, food always being dropped while cooking, everything whether it has weight to it or not.

Is this a lyme infection symptom? Of maybe one of the co-infections?

I guess I'll just need to try to explain more clearly that I need help, and give detailed examples of why. Explain that this is what will keep happening if I don't get help. Or, I'll just stop trying. Simple.

For me, one of the most frustrating issues with my lyme infection, is how people say they want to help, and then I ask for help and they either give me an attitude, or just don't help at all. I guess it boils down to they don't understand, they don't care, or they really are just selfish. Or all three?

Yeah, having a tough time today.

In_A_Cocoon_Now, I had that problem and Amoxicillin with Clarithromycin took care of it. For me it wasn't that I could not move my hands or fingers, it was that somehow there was a disconnect between my brain and my fingers. My hands would move towards the object but my fingers would not hang on to the object.

I finally figured out that I had to do things very slowly and move more slowly so that I could give my brain time to get the message to my fingers. This is how I managed until eventually the signals it got better.

I am glad to say that it has been months and the symptom has not returned. I still have many more symptoms but this is not one of them.

Thanks for the support everyone.

I guess the moving slower thing is what I need to do. I've noticed that I need to walk slower, move slower, mostly due to pain and also hurting myself by walking into things... so I imagine that giving my eyes/hands/brain time to engage makes sense. Thanks for that insight.

Margaret...Oh, two jars of honey!! I am sorry about that! Hope you're feeling better. You've been in my thoughts.

Hope everyone is having a restful night/day.

My hands just seem to let go, out of nowhere, as if they have a mind of their own. My cousin, who has tested positive for Lyme, but thinks she has Fibromyalgia (!!), constantly drops things.

Margaret

Same here. I lived with that for many years - dropping so many things that I was just dubbed a clutz - then I realized what is being said here - to actually stop and watch yourself grab something. I found that sometimes when I assumed that all of my fingers were wrapping around that handle, it was only 1 or 2 - so when it was a full coffee cup, of course I would drop it!!

Something else to watch for - not setting things down squarely on a table or whatever. I spilled gallons of milk, water and other things! Solids were much easier to clean up.

Now that I have a clearer understanding of why my hands/body are failing me, it helps.

It makes sense now, too, why I was actually afraid to hold my neighbor's baby. I would only hold him if I was sitting down. I had this strange sense, not a feeling or thought, that I could lose my hold and drop the baby! Horrible. I held him sitting down, and never dropped him, thank God! I never told others about this sense I had, because it just sounded so dumb. Now I get it. I made a right decision! Whew.

So many of my symptoms are so wacked, they're so out there, things that I had/have no idea what was going on, that trying to deal with lyme/co and especially trying to get others to understand..... seems like such a wasted effort.

I guess it sounds like I'm tired. I am. Very tired. Not just physically.

I have the appt tomorrow with the llnd. He was sooooooo upbeat while on the phone, so up and almost like manic. This scares me. With EVERY 'professional' in my past who has treated all of this through the years like I'm nuts and with very rude, condenscending attitudes, this guy's enthusiasm has me feeling like somethings off. Sad that I feel this about something/someone showing me a positive, wanting to help attitude. It's just tough, trying to trust others.

Cat53, my doctor chose Amoxicillin with Clarithromycin because one of my first symptoms of Lyme before being diagnosed with Lyme was gastrointestinal issues (as tested via a biopsy) and they found bacteria in my stomach that they thought was H. Pylori at that time. I was put on Amoxicillin, Clarithromycin and Omeprazole for it.

Later on when my LLMD found that I had Lyme, he chose the same antibiotics since my body had done well on them and because they also work for Lyme. Many people (including myself) don't do well on Doxy and he didn't want to take any chances.

Thank you Healing98. Toby did not care for using Doxy either. He probably felt that way because he was doing better after the Erchonia Laser and he felt the Doxy changed that. It's possible he was herxing but we don't know.
Toby does take magnesium. This type appears to help boost memory and crosses the blood brain barrier ; the latter being of interest to us. I will check out the link and the Institute's findings so thanks again for sharing this info. with me.