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Ellie, that you for your post. I trip over everything too. What's worse is my driving. I am alway hear the shreek of brakes and angry honking horns as I do something stupid. [I] come to corner look and proceed only to have not seen an obvious car which I have just obstructed. And it's either brakes or horns.
But to get back to the tripping. I am not sure why I am doing it whether it's failing to see what I tripped over or whether I might not to be lifting my feet like I use to. I know I often no longer know where my foot is going. I have lost that mental ability to track where I am placing my foot. I think I know, but I don't. I intend to put it here or there and it just does something else. And my balance has disappeared so I fall more often.
My problem is that my brain has been eaten away from multiple strokes caused by a genetic progressive and fatal dementia.
I am not suggesting that you might have the same thing. I am only saying thanks for your post...I am no longer alone but have a tripping neuromate and I like having the company. Thanks.

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Originally Posted by cat265 (Post 147847)

First of all have you ever been evaluated be an occupational therapist? They may be able to help with visual motor and perception skills. Have you been diagnosed with lyme? A very good freind of mine found a tick on herself and had the bulls eye rash but was not diagnosed with lyme until 6 years later. When she finally got the diagnosis, by a doctor in conneticut, he put a shunt into her arm I think and she received IV shots of antibiatics for 2 years. She also has to follow a diet almost like the Attkins diet because certain foods affect her. She will never be rid of lyme disease, right now it is dormant. I has flared up every now and then and she has to go for a series of antibiotics and follow the diet very strickly. She takes all kinds of vitamins and supplements. I could ask her for the list if you are interested. Have you ever had your b12 level tested? I bought a book call Could it be B12? by Sally M. Pacholok and she mentions some such about lyme and ms in there. She also has a blog www.fightb12deficiency.blogspot.com I hope you get some answers and feel better soon.

Funny you asked! My mom is an Occupational Therapist. She's worked with me since I was small, but without much luck. That's why she ended up taking me when I was in my early teens for Sensory Integration Testing (which I didn't do very well). For a long time my doctors just told her I was behind (developmentally) due to being premature with other health complications (Had to be resuscitated several times as infant, had severe case of meningitis; amongst other things).

She frequently blames herself for not demanding more answers, but she did the best she could with me. :)

I had my B12 tested a few weeks ago, that's fine. I am about to start my 3rd antibiotic now. For some reason I keep throwing them up and due to the timing, they are sure it's not the Herxheimer Reaction.

I'm getting ready to head out for my next batch of labs (horray). 17 tests total. I'm going to go broke before they fix me! :(

Foot drop,tripping,etc

Well Ellie, I sure don't have any answers. Your post just caught my eye cause this is also something I've done for the past few years. Sometimes one foot just seems to collapse under me. Never any warning about this. I can also just trip on a hardwood floor or grass,whatever.

I always use a walking stick when I walk my dog in the woods.

So guess I just want to say I know how being a klutz feels!

good luck with all the tests.
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Not that it's necessarily a good thing that we're all tripping, but it is fairly comforting to know that I'm not alone. I usually laugh about it when people are present, but sometimes it is quite upsetting. I just feel helpless in a way because I feel less aware of surroundings I should be able to walk over or by with my eyes closed. If I am not tripping, I'm running into something.

Unfortunately, the left side of my clavicle and the right side of my neck have joined in on the swelling. I just started my abx treatment today, so hopefully that will help out with this issue. If the swelling doesn't go down by Monday, they will probably do a biopsy of the first one that swelled up (per my primary).

Anywho, I just had my bubble bath and I'm going to take my disgusting muscle relaxer, watch the entire Season 4 of Nip/Tuck and cuddle up with my body pillow on the couch.

Have a great weekend, everyone!

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Originally Posted by Ellie (Post 145119)

I have never been blessed with much grace in my life, so for me to complain about this is almost sprinkled with irony.

I have a severe midline shift to my right side, needless to say - I run into a lot of things. I underwent vision therapy as there is no correction for my coordination (or lack thereof) and it helped a little, but I think most of that may have been in my head.

Maybe I am unwilling to accept the aging process, maybe it's my epilepsy, maybe it's related to my crappy eyes that can't be fixed, or perhaps the Lyme, or 'something' else. But I am getting worse.

I can only compare it to being blind and having someone move something in your home that you have become used to being in the same spot. The only difference is I can see, I see it there and then I run dab smack into it. My days are painful, sometimes funny (if I can't laugh at myself, what can I do?) and typically messy since I spill a lot of things.

It's like being extremely clumsy and lacking depth perception.

When I fill my coffee pot, I do it twice because I spill about 1/4 of the water aiming for the hole. When I fill my coffee cup, it overflows 3 out of 5 times. When I walk past my staircase (which is awkwardly located in the middle of my house), I run into it 4 out of 5 times. I run into doorways more than anything, always on my right side.

Now I keep tripping over my foot which is new. It's like it doesn't come up enough and from the top center of it down to my toes it drags and then I trip. Almost like my foot is dragging and my leg isn't catching on to pick it up. I caught myself yesterday walking to my mailbox like a horse where I was pulling my knees up to avoid tripping.

Is there something that would cause my foot to suddenly become a lazy addition to my leg? I'm sure I'll eventually learn to deal with it, but it's annoying. I usually laugh and anyone in my house usually laughs with me (or at me) but it's not really funny all of the time. :(

I will usually trip over the top half of my foot (it kind of bends) or my foot stays sort of flat and it drags and I end up tripping that way.

I feel like I'm nuts, heh.

I'm not paying for vision therapy again since most insurance companies think it's some fad thing. Plus, being taught how to walk is kind of weird since I know how to walk and all.

I was thinking maybe it has to do with the Lyme as my joints swell up a lot now and even the muscle covered areas of my arms and legs swell too. I thought maybe the swelling makes my foot mad or something. :D

Anywho, it could probably be anything or just me being a clumsy nitwit. I just wanted to vent about it. Just had carpet cleaned last week and then tripped today and spilled coffee on it.

Gah!

Hi Ellie,
I identify with a lot of what you write. When I was living in the hydrogen sulfide I could not walk through a doorway without bumping into it. I never knew about the "midline" thing, but it did seem as if I tended to bump more on one side than the other.

When I moved away from the toxins (one toxin was hydrogen sulfide, another was the toxic attitude of the condo association) I was in pretty bad shape and couldn't walk along my hallway here without bumping into the walls.

Recently I've begun to notice that I have a bit more balance in the dark and semi dark.

I also don't bump into my hallway walls anymore.

Right now (this very minute, I mean), there's a bit of dimming in my vision, which will go away if I just get up and give myself a B12 shot.

And, that's the thing. I've had SO much B12 replacement since I began using the prescription that my holistic M.D. gave me for a shot a day for a year. To get an idea of how much B12 replacement that is, regular M.D.s often don't even give a shot a month to people whose B12 level is 200. So my B12 level is at least ten times higher than that (I'm talking about blood tests) and I'm having thirty times more B12.

I better go do the shot. :)

I should add, though, that my feet were giving me a lot of problems ... so it's possible that if I hadn't had the amount of B12 replacement that I did, I would be experiencing what you are. I think there's a high possiblity of that.