Extreme muscle pain

Hello, I know I posted about this before and I usually bookmark all my posts but I missed this one.

I started having muscle pain in my upper left arm about 3 months ago.(? my lyme brain is bad so it could have been 6 months or 6 weeks) It sometimes goes thru my entire arm, up my neck and then down to my right arm. I have mentioned it several times to my LLMD and he doesn't think it's a problem because I am not losing any muscle strength.

It's becoming a real problem. In fact it woke me up last night and I was in agony until I finally fell asleep from smoking my medical marijuana around 8 am. Which I hate to smoke it but sometimes it's the only thing that works.

Sometimes if I move it the wrong way it will start up and other times I have no idea why it happens. Either way it is getting more and more painful.

I have had muscles die before and I know the difference in pain. When muscles die you don't get a break. So I think it has to be related to Lyme or a co-infection.

Does anyone have any suggestions on what I could ask my doctor to test for or what to use to treat it?

I'm not on any abx but am taking Buhner's supplements and am using a rife machine (Spooky2) I did take abx but after a year and a half my stomach couldn't handle it.

I'm getting so frustrated with my LLMD about why he doesn't think it's a problem. I told him how painful it is and how it prevents me from doing a lot, but he didn't say much. He just tested my arm strength and said it was fine. I said it wasn't fine but he somehow changed the subject and I lost track of it. I think he had a lot on his mind because it was a weird appointment last time. I have neuropathy which is slowly getting better but still flares up, my burning soles are getting much better. So now I have to deal with this.

Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.

This sounds like what I was going through a few years ago. It was my right upper arm/shoulder. I'm right handed.

At first I thought it might be an old rotator cuff tear injury I'd messed up again, but the pain went beyond that, which is hard to imagine. Bone spur came to my mind. The pain will radiate, or transfer to extended areas.

I saw an orthopedic surgeon, and he tried a steroid shot in that capsule in there. Nothing. He ordered an MRI and it showed both, torn cuff and bone spur. He did laproscopic repairs to the entire tendon and musculature area and the surgery caused me to relapse into Lyme, big time.

I'm not sure I would do it again, in spite of the pain I was in.

If you've ever had any kind of issue with that arm, know that these invading organisms love to set up camp on old injuries and problem areas. Keep that in mind while you decide how to deal with this.

Try hot and cold alternating therapy on the area, don't physically stress or over extend it, but maybe do daily resistance bands exercises.

Thanks Julymorning, I have not had any injuries in my arms or shoulders. Did yours finally go away?

I do hot and cold methods which help a little bit. It's hard to do when it's in both arms and your neck. I was using 2 lbs weights when my arm didn't hurt but will switch to resistance bands. I'm worried my muscles will deteriorate in that arm.

Bluelyme - is bvt Bee Venom Treatment? If so I'm allergic to bee stings. I'm not sure what of bees are used in that treatment. I'll check it out though. Thanks.

I had the same problem, though not quite as severe. My strength was never affected. However, I am in remission now and am feeling much better. So keep treating, and detox/drink water like crazy!

With the way Lyme acts, if you are already allergic to bee stings, it's not really a good idea to try out BVT in my opinion. I'm quite allergic to them, while I don't go into anaphylaxis (as my brother does) I do swell an extraordinary amount. If I get stung on the hand, the swelling goes up to my shoulder and it's pretty serious and incredibly painful. Simply put, not every treatment is right for every person.

Are you taking magnesium? If so, what type? I have used several different types of magnesium and have discovered that magnesium orotate is what works best for my muscle spasms, cramps and twitches.

Are you detoxing well? This also often lowers things like muscle pain, especially if you can take an Epsom salt detox bath. Epsom salt soaks have been used for many, many years to relieving muscle issues.

Laker-I had 2 cervical spine surgeries and both shoulders operated on prior to getting lyme so those area's flair up significantly. I know what my physical therapist did when I had similar muscle pain. She would manipulate the area manually. It hurt quite a bit but it restored blood flow and that would help reduce inflammation.

I know it's hard to visualize so here is a link to a piece that was on the Today show about two weeks ago. I purchased the items and they're very effective. Both astroman and I have talked about things like this on here in the past. This is the best I've found.
www.today.com/video/fasciablaster-could-it-be-the-key-to-living-a-pain-free-life-892989507570

You can reproduce the same motion manually. It's just tough to do to yourself and hard for others as there hand's get tired.

I also find lidocaine patches helpful but they take 8 hours or so to give relief.

Fascia is connective tissue comprised of - collagen. Guess what body material borrelia devours? That's right - collagen. So why do we have these body and muscle pains for no apparent reason? The bugs are like termites eating us from the inside. So it's not just knees and large joints, it is everywhere they happen to go. Sometimes the more I learn the less I want to read.

Here I go again sounding like a broken record .. .LOL...........

While waiting for it to get better, you need circulation - golf balls, lacross ball, hard foam roller to break it up and get circulated with new nutrients/oxygen ect. All this is on u-tube. It works temporary in the begining, but gives instant reliefe..

With traditional lyme treatment, the muscle pain can take a while to go way, most likely its a combo of nerve issues and muscle chemistry issues, both fro the infection. AND then if you have past injuries, expect your pain to be much worse.

Muscle injuries never completey heal 100%, even after they feel normal, the fibers are no longer aligned like when you were in your birthday suit. Thats realy no big deal, but if lyme realy settles in places with less blood flow/less circulation- this would be the place, an old injury..

Anyone can benefit from this, some more than others. Its realy muscle detox.