Back in October I took anti-biotics for a few days for what I thought was a bladder infection. I immediately began to get painful tendonitis. It is in my elbows, then over the past several weeks, traveled up to my biceps, triceps and shoulders. I have severe pain in my elbow joints and weakness in my arms. Over the past couple months, the arthritis pain has spread to my entire body. Every single joint from pinky finger to pinky toe has some pain. I also have muscle pain that has begun all over. At times, it throbs and at the same time there is a sharp pain in the joints. My hips, leg muscles, knees... you name it, it hurts. Really the only thing that has not been painful ( strangely) is my neck, which used to be the worst, but since taking Lyme-N has been 90% improved.
While Lyme has always caused bouts and waves of pain, tendonitis, muscle pain, etc. I can say that this is among the worst I have ever had. Especially in my arms~ the weakness is like nothing I have experienced. The strange thing is that while it is always present, the degree varies considerably from hour to hour and day to day. The worst is during the night and when I wake up in the morning.
I am currently having a viral attack of some kind. I thought they were shingles, my (non-Lyme) doctor thought they might be from the cold sore virus. They started about a year and a half ago (after I started taking Adderall.... important to note) and they always occur under my eyes. They start off as an extremely painful feeling, then begin to look like a spider bite. Then they end up looking like a chicken pock and eventually crust over and fall off ( with my help). At the same time, my bells palsy acts up. The left side of my face swells more and is painful. The left side of my nose is swollen up by my eye and I can barely breathe through that side. I have lost some hearing in my left ear and my left eye does not close all the way when I am sleeping. The hearing loss is constant, but the eyelid issue comes and goes.
These symptoms have come and gone in waves for years, although I do have permanent nerve damage and swelling to the left side of my face. I took Acyclovir and that helps to control it, but it has to be taken every 4 hours. At the 4 hour mark I start to feel the pain again.
Oddly, I noticed that my joint and muscle pain seemed to be reduced while the Acyclovir was in effect as well. It could be there is a relationship, and maybe not. Adderall also helps dramatically reduce joint and muscle pain during the day as well, so I can't be sure, but it's in the back of my mind that it could somehow be virus related.
Other than the major muscle and joint pain, I can say that most of my other symptoms related to Lyme, such as the neck pain and vision floaters are gone again.
However, the symptoms that I relate to adrenal exhaustion are still present. I have night sweats, periodic bouts of insomnia, crazy dreams, etc. I am having some major IBS issues that had been gone for quite some time. Those are primarily PMDD related. It's like my gut is some kind of rock crusher/ mad scientist's laboratory. It thumps and gurgles and bubbles and roils. I don't feel nauseous at all or get diarrhea as a result. It just churns and churns and produces nothing. I ordered some Priority One Gastri-Gest and I can't WAIT to get it. I love that stuff~ it works wonderfully and I highly recommend it. It contains several different probiotics and digestive enzymes