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Posted 10/3/2014 5:42 AM (GMT 0)
Hey guys, I have a question regarding a symptom that is really starting to scare me. I see my llmd in a couple of weeks, but felt like asking now because it's driving me nuts. Something is wrong in the bottom of my spine, basically were my spin connects to my pelvis, I constantly have this kind of slow dull ache feeling down there that never seems to go away. It sometimes burns, and can radiate into my stomach, legs, and hips. Being a caucasian male at 22, I'm seriously fearing lyme and these co-infections have possibly set off some sort of arthritis in my spine ( I'm referring to ankylosing spondylitis... Should I see a rheumatologist, because the pain seems to be slowly getting worse, and it's getting a bit unbearable.
Posted 10/3/2014 5:57 AM (GMT 0)
There is a genetic test you can have done...something like 90% of people with ankylosing spondilytis have it.
Have you had an MRI of your spine?

Have you been diagnosed with lyme disease yet?

If so, you could just have pain and stiffness from lyme itself.
I have had a lot of back/spine issues. My back, including lower back is stiff and sore. But, I'm chalking it all up to lyme...since it never happened until about a year ago.
Also, I had a few hours yesterday with almost no pain and stiffness in my body...including my back.

It's hard not to worry, but I would get an mri of your entire spine...and it should show if there is arthritis.

Post Edited (Girlie) : 10/3/2014 12:24:32 AM (GMT-6)

Posted 10/3/2014 6:05 AM (GMT 0)
It's very odd, like I can feel it deep into my lower spine, and I can describe an area, its all over. I have lyme, bart, and babesia .. Which I'm currently fighting with antibiotics, but I think I'm going to start adding in Buhners protocol... people seem to be getting huge success from that. If there's another way to explain it .. it's like I have flexibility, but it feels like I have wood plank stuck in my lower back. If that back pain was gone, i would actually be feeling pretty well right now. I had an xray of my spine a year ago, but I remember they did those nerve tests on my back, and my lower back was off the charts. I had a fall in november 2013 on concrete stairs on my tailbone.. I went and got an xray, and everything was fine, and the pain eventually went away.. but a few months later I started getting pain in my back, and it has never really gone away.. This is all very confusing.
Posted 10/3/2014 6:26 AM (GMT 0)
Does the pain ever change...or is always the same intensity, and not moving around?
an mri would be better. What do you pay for one in the U.S.?
Posted 10/3/2014 6:57 PM (GMT 0)
I am having the exact pain in the exact place.I am fused from my L/4 to S/1.So I know the difference in the two.This new area of pain is a deep penetrating soreness.I have a spot just below my hip that if I press on it I go crazy with pain.Plus at that area I feel a raised,kind of hard limb,almost like a seedling.I have had these on both knees,elbows,shoulderswrists and joints in my fingers.Now I am finding that it moves around,except for finger joints which are now getting stiff and arthritic looking.So I do think it's Lyme arthritis.
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