Neurological Symptoms in whole body getting worse - what is causing this?

[tommyroe]

I had what I thought to be an allergic reaction to a bugbite in August '06. My legs seized up & my right arm was numb. I developed rashes on my stomach, chest and back prior to that.  I was given steroid shots and the allergy meds.  A couple days after that, my neck had a terrible pain that never went away, and I got the pins and needles feeling in my neck, arms, legs, stomach, and back, and numbness in left hand/arm and right foot.  My doc put me on Tramadol,Valium,& Doxepin, but to no avail.
After a month or so I decided to see a chiro since I was still having the neck pain/headaches/pins and needles.  He said I had 2 pinched nerves.  However, after I started with him, I started having stomach and chest pains, diarrhea/constipation/coughing. He told me it was normal or it could be GERD. After going back to my doc, they tried Aciphex and a couple others to no avail, levsin, which didn't do much, and Darvocet for the pain.  In the midst of all of this, I had a a cold that turned into a viral infection in my chest and it's still there a month later.
I finally started to feel better from that, but the neck pain/headaches are worse, the pins/needles in the neck,arms,legs,stomach and back are still there after 19 sessions with the Chiro.
Then on Nov 8 '06, I got the flu shot.  A day later, I started having major muscle jerks of the arms/legs/chest.  I'm having weakness in legs/hammies/calves are seized up.
Did the bite in August cause all of this? Did my Chiro mess up? Did the flu shot do this after the cold? Help please!  I don't know what to do and it's getting worse.

[cat457]

BTW, Lyme disease has been reported in EVERY state except Montana.  Here in California, it has been reported in almost every county.  West Coast and East Coast has the highest reports.

[Jenny Wren]

Congrats on your MRI, what kind did you have?  I have weird symptoms also, my brain and c-spine are clear, no lesions.  But I still continue to have weird feelings. Did you go to the neuro for these tests or a PCP?  Glad to hear you got good news, thats great!!!!

[lees girl]

well..got my mri results back and the doctor said that its not MS, thank god, so off i go to the nuerologist again.

[tommyroe]

I still don't think that caused anything.  The muscle spasms/twitches etc coincided with the flu shot I got...I don't see any correlation...

[tommyroe]

I took doxycycline on the onset of the rashes/pimples showing up.  I took 5 days of avelox for a sinus infection, but it wasn't working, so I went through 2 bouts of Cefprozil (24 days worth), but that was over 2 months ago, and I had 90% of these symptoms before I took those, so I doubt if it was the avelox or cefprozil.  I had taken avelox and levaquin a few times over a dozen or so year span and never had a problem with them.  The muscle spasms/tremors/twitches started happening about a day after I got that flu vaccine...I still have them, but they are not as bad...probably because I am taking magnesium and b complex supplements to try to help them out...I'm drinking about a gallon of water a day too.

[johnflox]

What antibiotics have you taken? Were they cipro, levaquin or avelox? They can cause all your symptoms.