pain in hands

[jkv44]

Hi all,
well some of my pain in my hands has returned. Kind of throbbing like a tooth ache.

Nothing debilitating but painful at times.

Anyone else dealing with this? JKV

[Hope75]

I have foot burning pain mostly, but sometimes it moves into my hands - tingling, burning.  I wouldn't say aching, but my feet really ache and burn.  It comes and goes, which is the only blessing.  I must say that it has improved over time.  Hang in there.

[Jena906]

eye pain just like a needle was poked into it, then it is gone.
hands and feet ache most of the time.  sometimes I am blessed enough to have pain free times.
now I have found out (through taking a anxiety med when it acts up, usually daily around 10am at work) that that is my main problem after my 8months on treatment for lyme disease.  I am very fortunate to have an Infectous disease dr working with me since he diagnosised me in Dec of 2009.

[luvemma]

I get pain in my hands/fingers all the time.
Does anyone experience eye pain?

[FightBackHarder]

Before I was diagnosed and started treatment I would get excruciating pain in my arms and hands.  It was similar to hitting my funny bone and shooting electrical pain would pulse down my forearms into my hands.  Since i've started meds and supplements it seems to have eased up.  But I still have a hard time battling the cold and I feel like my hands are always chilled to the bone which makes them stiff and achy as well.

[wonko]

I do get pain in my hands that is well described by the original post, right down to the throbbing.  For me, it is as if I can feel my pulse and the pain pings with each beat.  I think it is just another manifestation of the systemic inflammation caused by the Lyme and co.

If I attempt something dexterous, then my hands also start to burn and ache more, worse on bad days.  But overall I am still up to manual tasks, it's more obnoxious than disabling.  Once in awhile, given the pain and the loss of sensation, I do get a bit clumsy but it's at a level that probably only I notice.

I sometimes use Rx-strength naproxen (a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory, or NSAID).  My LLMD provides this for me.  I don't use it every day, but often around my period when I get a worsening of symptoms it can help take the edge off.  Of course that's just symptom control, treating the underlying infections is the only way I know of to really tackle the issue.

[renschwa]

I've been feeling so much better lately except for my hands and feet... They get an achey feeling along sometimes with a prickley, burney, itchy feeling. They get a little puffy, the puffyness seems to be just fingers LOL. And I get aches in my toes too. So strange. I wondered if it was from Doxy but that was changed and I still get this...

I have a pos+ SSA test for auto-immine disease(Sjogrens, MTCD, Lupus) so I wonder if the lyme triggered one of these off- sjogrens espec in my case. The rhumie does not think so at this point but I would not be surprised if we find I have sjogrens down the road.

But as you all point out many people with Lyme have hand/feet issues so it's not always easy to pinpoint was causes what...

[22dreams]

I get hand pain -- the only way I can term it is spontaneous inflammation of veins, where the veins press closer to the surface of the skin and hurt. It's not blood vessels, it's veins.

[JackieCalifornia]

No, not exactly like that, but I get other issues with my hands -- deep chills that make the veins stand out dark, and then after a while my hands turn pink and feel a little swollen, as blood flows back into them.

It's always something, huh?