Pins and needles and numbness?

Hi everyone,

My blood has probably gotten to Germany by now where the people at Infectolab are going to analyse it for Lyme and some co-infections. Does anyone know how long it should take them to figure out the results and send them to Australia?

In the meantime, I've been getting some new symptoms:
•I've been getting temporary numbness and pins and needles in my legs - not caused by sitting for too long or in strange positions. I'm getting it a couple to a few times per day. I literally can't walk when I have it. It's sometimes in one leg, sometimes in both.
•my arm(s) has been kind of freezing so that I can't do big movements with it, but it also has uncontrollable shaking at the the same time.
•my tongue has developed raised red bumps on it (enlarged papillae) and it burns! There is also a white coating on my tongue that I can scrape off at the front (but not at the back, where I have thrush).

Could any of these symptoms be explained by Lyme? Otherwise I'm thinking maybe low blood pressure, stress and acid reflux.

pins and needles in my legs was one of my earlier symptoms. Once you get treatment, it will pass. Are you taking antibiotics now? Bc that's what I would attribute the white coating to - I have oral thrush too, and can scrape the white off the front and not the back. I am taking nystatin to hopefully get rid of it.

my son (4) has lyme and he often complains of his hands, feet and legs "tickling", which I take to mean tingling. He'll also describe it as that he can't feel them.

He was just at an appt with a new (for us) lyme doctor yesterday and she saw the enlarged papillae on his tongue and said it can be a sign of a strep infection, and not strep throat necessarily, b/c the strep bacteria can be in your body in other places i.e. sinus's, stomach, etc.
(she said sometime people can have lyme and strep at the same time, and that sometimes strep can cause similar symptoms as lyme, but so far she's the only person I've heard that from (re. the symptoms I mean) so maybe don't just take my word on that, b/c I'm not sure.)

I hope your blood test doesn't take long and points you in the right direction!

Oh yes, numbness and tingling is very much a Lyme symptom.

Hi Lymebabe, I am in Massachusetts too. North of Boston. :)

I was sitting reading your post awhile ago and my leg and right foot went all tingly and numb, like they do periodically. But tonight was one if those times I was telling my foot to move with my brain but I couldn't do it. It went on for like 20 minutes, I had to ask my partner to wake up and help me out of the chair I was in. It came back, but the time they are going numb where I can't force my body to move the numb limb is increasing. I just hope it doesn't come and stay forever.

Jasmine, it takes about 9 days to get the test done.

that's quick, isn't it?

jasmine - after my legs got like that, I started getting issues with my muscles - twitches, severe myalgia and muscle weakness. That's at least what happened to me, but everyone has different things happen at different times.

Jas- hope this is your post you asked about?

Pins and needles feel can sometimes be from muscle knots expanding on / entraping the nerve shieths. But lyme does wierd things just to nerves also. I can temporaily fix my nerve pain that is associated from knots by the ART I mentioned in the other thread. I've had this for years, so ART might work better the less time of infection.

To detect knots yourself- If you roll around on a tennis ball (under your glutes and thighs (hamstrings), there sould be no pain or lumpy feel in the muscle. A la cross ball is better, but possibly more painful if you have knots. If you start gently working these areas the knot should eventually "melt" with sustained pressure of 5 min - that is not ART, but myofacial release. Its hard to do ART yourself, and difficult to explain. Dont get to sore doing this, you will be sore before you feel better and it should have time to partially heal 2 days between sesions. I do this every day on some part. I have very slow improvements, I was doing this before ABX and Lyme Diagnosis.

In my case it did help nerve pain too, but not the burning in my feet which is very spuratic in nature and bothersome.

 

Hey Jasmine :)

I had symptoms for 9 months before I started treatment but according to my igenix positive test my llmd says I has been infected for over a year.

My tingling legs were so bad I couldn't wear pants or socks. It was like an 8 or 9 on the pain scale. This went on for months. I'm fine now, just sometimes I get mild sensations, getting better and better and few and far between now.

I've been on antibiotics for two months in addition to diet/detox and slowly am getting better.

Thanks Joeypheonix :) I'm glad you're getting better! Sometimes people say that treatment fixes it - but they only had the infection for a month or two before beginning treatment. It's good to know it can still work even after a year or more of being infected.

Living-free, the first two years that I was sick, my mum forced me to go to the chiropractor 49 times in total - I finally put my foot down, said it wasn't helping, in fact at times made me much worse, and I went to the chiro for the 50th time and told her I wasn't going to get chiropractic anymore.