Nerve Inflammation

[LymeEnigma]

Before I began antibiotics I had a serious problem with nerve pain, sensitivity, and numbness. These problems became less severe with treatment, and I began to notice that the ulnar nerve inflammation I would often experience (which causes numbness in the hands, from bending the elbow at night) became non-existent. For a couple days in a row now, however, I've woken up in the morning with numb hands. The numbness goes away after I straighten my arms and move my hands around a little (sluggish, at first). The Lyme couldn't already be on its way back, could it?

[enochroot]

You are looking for it - so you see it...That's what my wife tells me!
I hope not for your sake. I am a type 2 diabetic, so neuropathy is
always a spector haunting me.

[itsybitsyone]

My mom used to get this from carpal tunnel...waking with numb hands and so forth. Sometimes, the numb hands would wake her up and once she moved them around she would be fine.

After she retired and didn't type all day, this stopped happening.

Is it the chicken, or the egg, though...nerve damage from lyme, or was carpal tunnel there before, or would it have happened anyway?

I have never had that exact symptom. But then, I see a chiropractor weekly for years, I credit him with the fact that I can still walk and feel my hand at all!

I have neuropathy in my arm and face, sometimes my toes go numb and my right hand is very weak and sometimes my pinky goes numb from my compressed disc in my neck.

However, because narcolepsy was one of my presenting symptoms (not falling asleep while driving, but the other symptoms), google and read up on sleep paralysis, narcolpesy, catalpexy. Because i am not quite sure what you are describing EXACTLY, I can only compare it to my own weirdness. Narcolepsy causes its own kinds of numbness, weakness, and sleep paralysis. AND its caused by a lack of hypocretin neurotransmitters linked in post mortem studies to...you guessed it, idiopathic chronic brain inflammation.

That being said, 5 months on abx and one month on lyrica, my narcolpesy symptoms are almost vanished.

If i could get a hold of the pain, severe headaches, and swollen glands, I'd be willing to live like this without further treatment...but then, I have never known anything else.

Nancy

[LymeEnigma]

Enochroot: yeah, it is easy to fall into an unnecessary level of vigilance where symptoms can be concerned. I'm happy to say that I have not experienced hand numbness since the above mentioned episode, so it is likely that I allowed my mind to get the best of me on that one. I'm sorry that you have to deal with neuropathy regularly. That must be frustrating, not knowing whether it's the diabetes or the Lyme causing your pain and numbness.

Nancy: it's the weirdest thing, sometimes I get bouts of carpal tunnel syndrome-like pain in my wrist, but it only lasts for a few days (a week, tops) and always eventually remits for weeks, and even months, at a time. Wearing a wrist brace for a few days helps. I can't say for sure it's the Lyme that causes this; maybe it is carpal tunnel syndrome ... do you know if that has a relapse/remit cycle?

Pain, headaches and swollen glands ... yeah, I'm right about there with you. I still get a rogue nerve pain from time to time, but it is so minimal now that I can hardly complain. My biggest gripe right now is my knee blowing out every time I try to do kata and these monthly headaches....