Pins and needles in feet while sitting? - Lyme Disease Message Board

trust1 · 08-17-2005, 07:01 AM

Does anyone here get pins and needles/numbness in their feet while just sitting? I get that quite often. It also seems since I went from 200mg/daily of doxy to 400mg that it's hard for me to stay awake and I'm very tired throughout the day now, anyone else experiencing this?

thanks

deejavu · 08-17-2005, 07:51 AM

Hi Trust1,

Yes, I also get pins and needles besides numbness in my feet, legs, hands while sitting.
I also slept a lot when I first contacted Lyme (about 20 hours a day), now that I am slowly getting better, I have more energy and I'm not sleeping as much as I used to.

Believe me, you are not alone. It's good that you are taking 400 mg. of Doxy, are you taking the Detox Baths to help your body get rid of the dead spirochetes that causes Herx Reactions? These are also Mustard Foot Baths that work very well.

cjFTWORTH · 08-17-2005, 10:45 AM

Very weird, I can remember the day this symptom came on of of pins/needles in finger tips and then toes... because my husband was in hospital recovering from surgery. I was not ill, or having other symptoms and at the time had a friend suggest I have my blood sugars checked out as it goes with early diabetes... but it was weird because it came one day and has been with me since. Sometimes more are of hand/feet but usually more fingers/toes or towards extremities. It is however, a symptom that has greatly reduced since on abx.

As for doxy, I don't recall the fatigue when upping the dose... with amoxycillin, my first abx, I had a lot of trouble just feeling ill, throwing up, etc., trying to adjust.

I can imagine though, that for some it is a hard on the body making the adjustment. Are you taking probiotics of some type... acidophilus, etc??

Do make sure not to take dairy products within a two hour window of your doxy and no calcium/magnesium supplements within this time frame as well... this is a struggle for me...

Hang in there and keep us posted how you are adjusting to the doxy... cj