Re: lumps, nodules, cysts, muscle knots, etc.

[Guest guest]

Freebird,

I have lots of neck lumps that are tender and painful. All my lymph

nodes are actually. My husband was massaging my calves the other

day, and noticed several knot type cysts in them. They were pretty

tender as well. I don't know if theyre related, but I go to my dr.

next week and I'm going to ask.

-Joleen

> Hello all,

>

> I'm wondering how many people with Lyme disease have lots of

lumps,

> nodules, cysts, muscle knots, etc. in their soft tissue, which are

> painful and seem to be filled with fluid or abnormally

> hardened/fibrous tissue. I have some of these in my back and neck

> which sometimes cause problems for me. I have no idea how they

got

> there, and they seem flare up and subside at random. Just last

night

> a severe knot in my back caused a pinched nerve or something that

> radiated pain all the way down my arm into my hand and kept waking

me

> up at night. My mother (who has had fibromyalgia for 13 years)

has

> these lumps/knots or whatever they are much worse than I do, and

has

> constant migrating nerve pain all over her body. She also gets

them

> much worse when the weather is cold and damp.

>

> I am curious, can this " fibrosis " or whatever they call it be a

> symptom of Lyme disease, and does anyone here have problems like

> this? Has anyone ever done a biopsy of these lumps and found

> spirochetes living inside? I wonder if the Lyme bacteria could

hide

> out in areas like this that do not receive adequate oxygen from

the

> bloodstream, to preserve themselves and re-seed the body whenever

> they want to go on the attack? Could the spirochetes create large

> cysts in which to hide themselves from the effects of the immune

> system, forming a protective shell, so to speak, so that they can

> survive -- and this is what people with fibromyalgia experience as

> fibrous lumps and nodules in their soft tissue?

>

> Any sharing of thoughts or experiences with this issue would be

> appreciated.

>

> Thanks,

> Freebird

[Guest guest]

> > Hello all,

> >

> > I'm wondering how many people with Lyme disease have lots of

> lumps,

> > nodules, cysts, muscle knots, etc. in their soft tissue, which

are

> > painful and seem to be filled with fluid or abnormally

> > hardened/fibrous tissue. I have some of these in my back and

neck

> > which sometimes cause problems for me. I have no idea how they

> got

> > there, and they seem flare up and subside at random. Just last

> night

> > a severe knot in my back caused a pinched nerve or something that

> > radiated pain all the way down my arm into my hand and kept

waking

> me

> > up at night. My mother (who has had fibromyalgia for 13 years)

> has

> > these lumps/knots or whatever they are much worse than I do, and

> has

> > constant migrating nerve pain all over her body. She also gets

> them

> > much worse when the weather is cold and damp.

> >

> > I am curious, can this " fibrosis " or whatever they call it be a

> > symptom of Lyme disease, and does anyone here have problems like

> > this? Has anyone ever done a biopsy of these lumps and found

> > spirochetes living inside? I wonder if the Lyme bacteria could

> hide

> > out in areas like this that do not receive adequate oxygen from

> the

> > bloodstream, to preserve themselves and re-seed the body whenever

> > they want to go on the attack? Could the spirochetes create

large

> > cysts in which to hide themselves from the effects of the immune

> > system, forming a protective shell, so to speak, so that they can

> > survive -- and this is what people with fibromyalgia experience

as

> > fibrous lumps and nodules in their soft tissue?

> >

> > Any sharing of thoughts or experiences with this issue would be

> > appreciated.

> >

> > Thanks,

> > Freebird

[Guest guest]

I have lots of lumps in my chest, along my sternum to the base of the same.

The largest is like a butter-bean and the smallest like a lentil (sorry

about the food anology - we're cooking)! They're not painful unless

squeezed but sometimes draw attention to themselves by reacting when touched

with an 'uncomfortable' feel. Mentioned them to the doc years ago but after

visiting an oncologist and being told they were just cystic lumps in the

muscle and would do no harm am wondering if these are related to the

borreliosis now?

My latest one has appeared on my left wrist in the last few days and have

had knots in the muscles at the base of my neck which may or may not be

related to the doxycycline I started a few weeks back....

Regards,

Kezzi. . . . Cumbria, UK

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[Guest guest]

> I had a granuloma biopsied and sent to Bowen research.

> It came back positive with Lyme bb. It is my

> understanding the the spirochete from the bb(lyme)

> make a sort of cacoon in your tissue to protect

> themselves.

Ah-HA! That's what I thought. I have wondered for quite a long time

what these " lumps " contain. At least in your case, it's spirochetes

in there. I figured that would be a possibility, and it's very

interesting to hear that a biopsy can really prove this! Thanks for

sharing.

Freebird