Re: Sensory Abnormalities:

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In a message dated 2/17/2004 5:20:18 AM Eastern Standard Time,

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* Highly acute hearing - especially whispers, or high pitched noises far

away

* Very sensitive sense of smell

I have these two since getting sick all those yrs ago

Robyn

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* 'Cobwebs' on my face

* Feeling heat from a 60W lightbulb 4 to 6 feet away

* Can feel and read some newsprint with fingertips

* Colours have different temperatures and textures when touching them

* Highly acute hearing - especially whispers, or high pitched noises far

away

* Very sensitive sense of smell

* Sheets in bed feel 'heavy' on legs

* Fluorescent tubes the 'wrong way round' cause annoying 'swirls' leading to

headache

* Bright lighting is painful - instant headache!

* And yes, the fabric thing - even with a good fabric a *sudden* change in

temperature makes for an intolerable itching on my back and chest. The worst

times are when leaving an air-conditioned building, or walking into one that

has heat-blowers over the door.

Blessings,

Kezzi. . . . Cumbria, UK

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[ ] Sensory Abnormalities:

> Hey. Has anyone else gotten really weird sensory abonormalites with

> their lyme? since last night it feels like my shirt is sticking to

> my upper back and when I lean against something that area gets

> prickly/itchy like when you wear a bad fabric. Thoughts? Anyone want

> to share similar occurances?

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Here's a good one - I had the print changing colors on the page when

I was reading books. Sometimes blue; sometimes red. It looked like

I was reading an internet page with highlighted links - but I wasn't.

> Hey. Has anyone else gotten really weird sensory abonormalites

with

> their lyme? since last night it feels like my shirt is sticking to

> my upper back and when I lean against something that area gets

> prickly/itchy like when you wear a bad fabric. Thoughts? Anyone

want

> to share similar occurances?

[Guest guest]

> Hey. Has anyone else gotten really weird sensory abonormalites

with

> their lyme? since last night it feels like my shirt is sticking to

> my upper back and when I lean against something that area gets

> prickly/itchy like when you wear a bad fabric. Thoughts? Anyone

want

> to share similar occurances?

Sounds familiar. Two things come to mind. Red itchy welts when I

lean against something or when something touches me with the least

amount of pressure is a symptom that I had for about a year. The

dermatologist called it Dermagraphism. It was the lyme affecting the

skin. Another sensory problem was that it felt like cold rain drops

was hitting my skin, when it wasn't raining at all. Drove me crazy.

It was the lyme affecting my nervous system.

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For me, skin sensitivity is a daily ordeal.

I have been told that it can be related to a build up of toxins in my system. I

suffer from systemic yeast also, and when it flares I get painful red rashes on

my body.

Touching anything bothers or hurts me. Esp. adhesive or scratchy things. My skin

will break down in a short time, just from forgetting to take off a bandaid!

I sleep on a fleece blanket. I wear loose pollar fleece clothing at all times. I

even pay $9.00 a pair for fleece socks!!

The use of fleece has not solved the overall problem, but it has given me more

relief than anything else I've tried.

Hope this helps.

Carol aka dizz

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That is a good one! Here are two of mine that are especially

interesting:

* Cold water running over my hands sometimes feels like it's burning

hot.

* When taking clothes out of the dryer that have some static

electricity in them, sometimes it triggers nerve pain shooting from

my fingers all the way up my arms.

Freebird

> > Hey. Has anyone else gotten really weird sensory abonormalites

> with

> > their lyme? since last night it feels like my shirt is sticking

to

> > my upper back and when I lean against something that area gets

> > prickly/itchy like when you wear a bad fabric. Thoughts? Anyone

> want

> > to share similar occurances?

[Guest guest]

Yes! I'm glad you said something about the cold water feeling like

it's burning hot. It's like that with me.

My skin 'hurts' all the time. Clothes hurt. My skin prickles like

needels and pins. The shower water hurts. Bath water hurts.

Sometimes I feel like I just want to rip my skin off just to get

relief. It comes in waves. Ripples. It drives me nuts!

> That is a good one! Here are two of mine that are especially

> interesting:

>

> * Cold water running over my hands sometimes feels like it's

burning

> hot.

>

> * When taking clothes out of the dryer that have some static

> electricity in them, sometimes it triggers nerve pain shooting

from

> my fingers all the way up my arms.

>

> Freebird

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