Without proper treatment Lyme disease can cause serious medical complications including heart problems severe arthritis and complications within the bodys nervous system. There is research that shows Epstein-Barr Virus Chlamydial Pneumonia as well as Bartonella Babesia and many others can lead to chronic conditions.
I am in bed every day I have not been able to do housework cook or drive myself to doctor appointments.
Can lyme disease lead to ms. There is research that shows Epstein-Barr Virus Chlamydial Pneumonia as well as Bartonella Babesia and many others can lead to chronic conditions. Here are some of the articles research papers and discussions I have collected over the years relevant to Lyme disease being connected to MS. Its unlikely that you have both Lyme disease and MS but its possible.
Some of Lyme diseases symptoms can mimic those of MS. It can also follow a relapse-remittance course where symptoms come. Lyme disease can have delayed neurologic symptoms that mimic symptoms of MS.
They include muscle weakness blurry vision itching burning stabbing pain or pins and needles confusion cognitive dysfunction and exhaustion. Although it is unlikely that a patient has both Lyme disease and MS the possibility is still there. Lyme disease symptoms may appear like multiple sclerosis causing confusion at first.
Lyme disease can cause delayed neurologic symptoms similar to those seen in multiple sclerosis MS such as weakness blurred vision caused by optic neuritis dysesthesias sensations of itching burning stabbing pain or pins and needles confusion and cognitive dysfunction and fatigue. There is an obvious overlap in symptoms with both MS and Lyme disease. The MS-Lyme disease connection has been studied as far back as 1911.
In 1957 Time Magazine published a story on a Philadelphia-based bacteriologist who reported success in cultivating an obscure microbe a spirochete which she found in the spinal fluid of MS victims. Symptoms of Lyme Disease and MS Given the two diseases are often misdiagnosed it should come as no surprise that the symptoms are often the same. Shared symptoms include weakness blurred vision caused by optic neuritis dysesthesias sensations of itching burning stabbing pain or pins and needles confusion and cognitive dysfunction and fatigue National MS Society.
The result is that Lyme as a cause for MS will remain denied - by orders from above citing statistics of Lyme causing MS-like symptoms is rare so never diagnose the cause as Lyme. Statistics based on false assumptions statistics used to disallow rectifying those same faulty statistics. MS and Spirochetes In every Lyme disease support group in this country and I have visited dozens there have always been at least one multiple sclerosis MS patient who turned out to have Lyme disease and was recovering on antibiotics.
But if this is true why is there is no documented connection between spirochetes and MS. Someone who is newly infected may also develop flu-like symptoms. If it is left untreated Lyme disease can cause further symptoms including muscle pain joint swelling and.
With Lyme disease this usually occurs between the ages of five and 15 or over the age of 50. In addition Lyme disease is seasonal occurring more frequently in spring and summer when people are more likely to be outdoors hiking camping etc. Worldwide MS prevalence parallels the distribution of the Lyme disease pathogen Borrelia B burgdorferi and in America and Europe the birth excesses of those individuals who later in life develop MS exactly mirror the seasonal distributions of Borrelia transmitting Ixodes ticks.
My hubby is positive Lymes also now Vitamin b12 deficiency with MTHFR genetic mutation A1298c he has memory lossdepressionfrequent falls due to peripheral neuropathy in both legsblood clots in legs as well as lungsheart failureHis MRI showed SACD Lyme disease does cause irreversible nerve damage but supplimenting with injections of vitamin B12 can assist repairing nerve damage. My symptoms mimic ALS CIRS MS Fibromyalgia CRPS MCS and several other diseases. I truly believe that I have Lyme Disease.
I am in bed every day I have not been able to do housework cook or drive myself to doctor appointments. I am now severely depressed since my original diagnoses of a mold illness or CIRS was diagnosed in 2003. Lyme disease can be confused with MS because an MRI of the brain of a person infected with Lyme disease may have some similar findings to the brain MRI of a person with MS.
In addition findings from a spinal tap can be similar in MS and Lyme diseases as cerebrospinal fluid samples can be positive for a type of protein called an oligoclonal band. Lyme disease patients are frequently misdiagnosed as fibromyalgia Parkinsons disease or Multiple Sclerosis leaving the true problem untreated. Without proper treatment Lyme disease can cause serious medical complications including heart problems severe arthritis and complications within the bodys nervous system.
In about 15 percent of cases Lyme disease affects the central nervous system. When it does it is known as neurologic Lyme disease. Sometimes people who think they may have Lyme disease find out they have MS an immune-mediated central nervous system disorder.
Lyme disease as an infection can act to trigger MS attacks. Lyme Disease and MS. AbbVie Accordant Acorda Bayer Biogen GenentechRoche GenzymeSanofi Novartis Serono Teva Research.
These are 2 distinct and very different disorders Usually they are easy to tell apart More difficult is what to do with the neurologic patient with unexpected.