Some two to 10 weeks after being infected, about 15% of untreated patients may get very sick, with neurological symptoms, which can include meningitis with intense headaches, facial palsy or other cranial nerve problems, or severe pain or paralysis of nerves radiating into the arms, legs or abdomen.May 3, 2014
Does Lyme disease make your legs hurt?
If you've contracted Lyme disease, you may experience muscle soreness or joint pain. Your knees are most likely to be affected, and joint pain can get more severe as the disease progresses.
What does Lyme disease do to legs?
Musculoskeletal involvement, particularly arthritis, is a common feature of Lyme disease. Early in the illness, patients may experience migratory musculoskeletal pain in joints, bursae, tendons, muscle, or bone in one or a few locations at a time, frequently lasting only hours or days in a given location.
What does Lyme disease joint pain feel like?
What are the symptoms? The main feature of Lyme arthritis is obvious swelling of one or a few joints. While the knees are affected most often, other large joints such as the shoulder, ankle, elbow, jaw, wrist, and hip can also be involved. The joint may feel warm to the touch or cause pain during movement.
Does Lyme disease cause leg weakness?
Neurological complications most often occur in early disseminated Lyme disease, with numbness, pain, weakness, facial palsy/droop (paralysis of the facial muscles), visual disturbances, and meningitis symptoms such as fever, stiff neck, and severe headache.
Why does Lyme cause muscle pain?
Lyme arthritis is caused by the bacteria that causes Lyme disease getting into your joints and causing inflammation of your tissues. Over time, this can cause damage to your cartilage. Most cases of Lyme arthritis are short-lasting and affect only one large joint.
How does Lyme disease cause muscle pain?
However, it is thought that the primary bacteria of Lyme disease in the United States, Borrelia burgdorferi, can get into tendons, ligaments, muscles, intervertebral discs, blood vessels, and/or the linings of nerves—including in the neck—causing inflammation, pain, and muscle spasms.
What are symptoms of late stage Lyme disease?
Symptoms of late stage Lyme disease
- Severe headaches and neck stiffness.
- Additional EM rashes in new places on the body.
- Facial palsy, also known as Bell's palsy – paralysis of one side of the face.
- Arthritis or joint pain and swelling, especially of large joints (such as the knee)
Can Lyme disease affect your bones?
burgdorferi infection in humans is associated with increased rates and severity of osteopenia and osteoporosis, and/or increased risk of fracture outcomes. Bone loss results from an imbalance between the bone-resorbing activities of osteoclasts and bone-building functions of osteoblasts.
Does Lyme arthritis show up on xray?
There are no X-ray findings associated with Lyme disease. However, an X-ray may be helpful in the diagnosis of complications of chronic Lyme arthritis.