Dizziness with lymes?

[allykelly211]

Hello~

I have had dizziness/floating sensation for about two years with many other symptoms but the main one is dizziness.  Would dizziness be the MAIN symptom of lymes??  My latest symptoms are low back pain with goosbumps or chills running thru one side of my body.  I also have joint pain, flashing eye lights, floaters, fatigue, headaches, alcohol intolerance, nighsweats, pain and tingling down both elbows, bad memory, brain fog, full feeling in the ear, eyes overshoot, and depression.  MS or Lymes? MRI is normal.  Spinal is normal and 2 abnormal EEG's.  Any help is so appreciated.

[therealbill]

yes, LYME, but other problems like MS, LUPUS, etc can also be attributed.  Have you had a WESTERN BLOT blood test for Lyme. If you had a spinal done that could have revealed LYME if they looked for it.  MS as it progresses would have shown up as leasions on your brain in the MRI.

Obviously you need to see a doctor who will run the full range of blood tests on you to identify short problems with blood, for one thing, you could have large RED cells which can cause the problem or you could be short on IRON or B12 which can cause the problem. A low thyroid.  So the full panel of blood tests is essential to finding the keys to your problem, once you find the key, then you narrow your path and keep looking. DON'T GIVE UP !  You could also have fibromyalgia.

BILL

[patsy10]

There are numerous symptoms with lyme disease.  The most presenting symptom can be different for each person.  All the symptoms you described are consistent with lyme.  Lyme is diagnosed sometimes when all other testing comes back normal.  It usually takes a doctor who specializes in lyme to diagnose it unless you have a CDC positive test, which is rare.  Do you mean spinal tap when you wrote spinal?  Lyme seldom shows up in spinal fluid even in severe neuro lyme.  It only shows something like 10 or 20% of the time.  People often get diagnosed with things like fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue, MS and others when they really  had lyme the whole time.  I don't know if you have lyme.  These are just my thoughts on it.  Have you gone to lymenet dot org.  You can research it there.