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Posted 4/16/2014 11:55 PM (GMT 0)
So here I am sitting here almost better and I was thinking I could start claiming "symptom free days" and my left eye starts twitching ever so slightly I can barely notice when I look at it in the mirror but I can feel it. It is twitching maybe around half a millimetre in twitchiness to even less than that. And darn is it annoying.

It started just this afternoon and keeps going. Does anyone else have this symptom? I wonder if there are some antibiotic eye drops or herbal anti microbial eye drops I can take?
Posted 4/17/2014 12:48 AM (GMT 0)
I have been having issues with muscle twitching since this all started. I have eye twitches occassionally too. This is the last of the two symptoms that I have left. And darn is it annoying! So this is new for you? Muscle twitches are either due to improper nerve firings or from lack of magnesium. My dr increased my magnesium dose to 800mg as day last week. Hopefully this will taske care of it plus I am on additional antibiotics now. You do need to be concerned if this is indeed a new symptom. Are you taking magnesium currently?
Posted 4/17/2014 12:51 AM (GMT 0)
Oh and I forgot one important point. Eye twitches are also a result of anxiety. So it may not necessarily even be related to lyme. It could be your nervousness of hoping you are near the end! Try not to worry too much and see if it subsides. I hope it does!
Posted 4/17/2014 1:12 AM (GMT 0)
I've had a non stop eye twitch for a few months now from the lyme. Like non stop. I also do magnesium and it dramatically reduced all of the twitching except for my eye. I'm going to ask my doc about it tomorrow and will post back if he says anything meaningful.
Posted 4/17/2014 1:52 AM (GMT 0)
Ya this is not a new symptom for me but I have not had it for over a month now! It just came back but very very minor. People were talking about their flare ups that happen during a full moon so I thought this was my flare up. Or it is just a 4 week cycle thing that happens to fall on a full moon? I'm not sure but it has for sure been a month since this happened. about 2 months ago, the beginning of March I woke up and this symptom was way worse! I woke up in the morning and my eyes were fully blinking automatically! They did that like 4 times. So tiny little eye twitch that I can't even visibly see in the mirror compared to full eye twitches... Quite the improvement at least.

But wow I am happy it is getting better at least! I had this one tiny very minor symptom today... And I have some minor inflammation ... And that is pretty much it for symptoms! I have one more day of this 4th pulse of tinidazole and then we'll see how I feel on my off days. Still going to hit it with banderol, samento, grapefruit seed extract, and teasel!!! Exercise regime to start on the weekend as well as hot saunas. I'm going to take my antibiotics 30 minutes before exercise so I can hit it hard wherever there are Lyme leftovers.
Posted 4/17/2014 1:57 AM (GMT 0)
Oh I also have zero anxiety! Nada... I'm just calm and collective in the moment doing my thing at work! Which is the way I like to live. I can focus on this and that. Then just randomly at the end of the day when sitting in my office this happened ... I thought it was related to a monthly flare which now is so minor.

I will try magnesium, but all of my other muscles are fine? I think it is related to the Lyme. For example if Lyme is spirocheting itself into a nerve or something that causes cycles of the nerve to pulse or maybe even just he release of toxins in a nerve. We don't know for sure, only theories, but we do know it's Lyme.
Posted 4/17/2014 2:08 AM (GMT 0)
Eye twitching can be a sign of parasites as well. Have you done any cleansing?
Posted 4/17/2014 2:11 AM (GMT 0)
I have it. I take phyto-Cal. It has calcium, magnesium, boron (I think). You might want to double check your supplements and see how much calcium/magnesium you are getting and it if is an easily absorbable one!
Posted 4/17/2014 2:23 AM (GMT 0)
Oh I sure hope it is not parasites. That kind of scares me a bit. I'm really hoping this tinidazole kills the parasites as well which I think it does. I do have parasite cleansing stuff that I bought. I went to a holistic doctor place and they did this European VEGA testing, they run some electrical frequencies and it pulses through you and the machine tells you what disease you have. It came up telling me I have round works and Epstein-Barr virus. I was like what the heck round worms!!! Then I just thought their machine made a mistake and couldn't distinguish the round worms from the Lyme because to me they are both round worm like shapes. I talked to my Aunt and Mom, they just think it was quackery, but then they think the LLMDs are quacks too so maybe I do have these round worms?

Post Edited (LymePickle) : 4/16/2014 8:32:21 PM (GMT-6)

Posted 4/17/2014 2:27 AM (GMT 0)
Okay thanks for the suggestion Opugirl. It is very slight symptom. Ugh. Okay right when I was typing this my right ear just started ringing like RING. Very sudden. Then it goes away. What's the deal with that now? Herx I wonder. Only my right ear will ring and it has happened before, only my left eye will twitch. Hmm strange.
Posted 4/17/2014 12:08 PM (GMT 0)
lymepickle - how long have you been on treatment again?
Posted 4/17/2014 1:10 PM (GMT 0)
Well that kind of depends how you mention treatment. I started my own treatment and took minocycline since 4 days after I was infected about 200 mg a day and I have been on that for the past 4 months, it's now coming close to 5 months. Then I started banderol and samento half way through December and was on that for 2 months right until March. February was a rifampin month and I guess the month that I officially started treatment, and I saw 2 LLMDs in the beginning of February. I saw 8 Doctors before that of course none believed me about Lyme disease so they didn't prescribe me nothing but sleeping pills and antidepressants. Beginning of March I had my follow up with both Dr.s and got onto the tinidazole for beginning of March. Beginning of April I got another follow up with my one dr and got Plaquenil added in.

So I have been treating as much under my own research and knowledge since day 4 of being infected back in late November but I have only been under guidance of 2 LLDs since beginning of February which is 2 and a half months.

Post Edited (LymePickle) : 4/17/2014 8:43:09 AM (GMT-6)

Posted 4/18/2014 1:28 AM (GMT 0)
A lot of the time, the twitching is a result of a skewed polyvalent cation ratio. We take Mg for the twitching, but it's a ratio that is causing the problem. Common culprits can be Ca/Mg, Co/Mg, or Mo/Mg.

Most Mg supplements you'll find in drugstores will be Magnesium Oxide and it's absorption is terrible. Chelated Mg is absorbed better (Mg Glycinate). I don't like the Mg Taurate, Mg Citrate causes more diarrhea, and Mg Malate is OK.
Posted 4/18/2014 3:39 AM (GMT 0)
lymepickle - I am curious - what was your CD57 level and did you ever get it retested?? that is a good marker as far as how far along you are with recovery. I forgot about that one.

Georgia - yes, I take mg glycinate, its supposed to be better absorbed, but it is still not helping my twitching =(
Posted 4/18/2014 3:46 AM (GMT 0)
Hi Chapelle. My CD57 was 36 when I got it tested and my CD57 NK Cells (% lympho) was 3.02.

So ya my CD57 was very low!

What was yours at?

Georgia, The magnesium I am taking is magnesium malate.
Posted 4/18/2014 3:50 AM (GMT 0)
wow - mine wasn't far off from yours - it was 47 and my NK was only 1.7%

I think my Dr plans to retest this at my next visit.
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