Where do you have numbness?

sporadic numbness, tingling, burning, pins and needles, stabbing sensations etc that seems to occur in different parts of the body - is one of the common symptoms of Lyme disease - esp chronic lyme

where exactly it occurs is pretty random - depending on which nerves are involved - and as above - this tends to move around over time

Lea777needinghelp said...
I woke up this morning with my left hand numb and was wondering where everyone is getting the numbness or tingling sensation?

The reason I went to go get checked in the first place with a nautralpath was after one morning I suddenly had left body numbness and since then I’ll have random body parts go numb or tingly.
The er blamed it on a migraine but I knew that wasn’t it. Since starting treatment its usually on left hand or arm and my left foot.

Yup
I had that on my left hand - particularly my pointer finger.
Numb and tingly.
Most of my symptoms were on my left side
It has improved - it’s about
90 % better.
At this point I doubt it will get any better - but I am fine with that.

Lymie24 said...
I usually only get numbness in my right leg. I get sciatica like pain running down the back of my leg and my foot will start to feel numb especially if I walk any relatively long distance.

being aggravated by walking is a pretty good indicator is something like bulging disc impinging on a nerve

what complicates things is that lyme etc all tend to exacerbate any pre-existing weakness or injury site - and cause more inflammation there - and making things hard to heal - so the two things can overlap/co-exist

Garzie said...

Lymie24 said...
I usually only get numbness in my right leg. I get sciatica like pain running down the back of my leg and my foot will start to feel numb especially if I walk any relatively long distance.

being aggravated by walking is a pretty good indicator is something like bulging disc impinging on a nerve

what complicates things is that lyme etc all tend to exacerbate any pre-existing weakness or injury site - and cause more inflammation there - and making things hard to heal - so the two things can overlap/co-exist

The sciatica pain down my right leg was one of my early symptoms with Lyme. It came out of nowhere. Never had an issue with it to that point in my wife. Back then it hurt all the time walking or not. I'd be at work constantly stretching because it was unbearable. It went away completely for several years when I started combo abx treatment back in 2017. A few years ago when my condition started to worsen it came back with a vengeance. Now it waxes and wanes. When it's flaring it hurts all the time but walking makes it way worse and sitting after walking helps relieve the pain. I'm establishing with a new primary care doc in a month or so and I will bring it up and see what they have to say.