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Re: Muscle stiffness:Can drugs/supplements cause this?

Posted by regisx on June 14, 2016, at 23:43:26

In reply to Re: Muscle stiffness:Can drugs/supplements cause this?, posted by bleauberry on June 14, 2016, at 14:15:50

hello!

i have been to a neurologist already. he measured the nerves and they were ok. he said maybe it comes from the lamotrigine but since i only have this in the arms i wonder how likely this is.
i also looked for lamotrigine and muscle stiffness and this seems to be a very very rare side effect!

i have had tests for lyme in the past (western blot) cause i also have arthritic issues. the test was negative. i also dont walk on grass or go into the woods. i mean IF i had lyme then it's old and not new.
i read that lyme is also very hard to even diagnose. but i dont know if simply taking huge doses of antibiotics without knowing if i have it or not would be good and if a doctor would be willing to do this. :/
but i have a lot of strange issues which doctors cant help me with. i have visual snow, floaters and i also see the white blood cells in the eyes! it started a few years ago. this is so annoying that i have to avoid brightness. at home i always have the curtains before the window cause i cannot tolerate brightness it stresses me out.

if it was caused by amphetamines then wouldn't the symptoms go away if i dont take anything?
cause i have these symptoms also on days where i take nothing!

i also noticed many years ago (back then i didnt think much about it) that when i bend my arm and then stretch it the movement is not fluent but it stutters somehow.
and when i do the same movement now then my hands always shake! when i stretch out my arm and look at my thumb then it's always shaking slightly!

other symptoms i have are: weakness in the forearms, discomfort, extreme fast fatigue.

a few weeks ago i was kneading some dough for maybe 1 minute. afterwards my arms felt so exhausted that i couldn't even hold a pen and take a note!!

but back then i thought maybe i am simply out of shape and need to train my muscles a bit more.
but lack of fitness cannot be the explanation. this doesn't explain the muscle stiffness.

i'm really worried about this now. i mean there are so many possible causes. now i worry that it could also come from the spine this means that i basically needed to get a MRI of the neck simply to see if everything is normal and I really hate MRIs. :(
and if the MRI is normal what do I do then?
the neurologist sounded like he doesn't have many other ideas if lamotrigine isn't the explanation.

i also thought if this could be stress-related cause i think that some of the symptoms (weakness,discomfort) might get worse under stress. BUT then there is still the muscle stiffness issue. I don't think that this can be stress-related.
If my hands were generally shaking and trembling then it could be stress-related but I really don't think that the rigor which I have can simply be caused by stress. then why is it only in the arms and not in other places/muscles?


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