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About a month ago I started developing tingling and numbness in most of my toes.  A few days later I developed tingling and numbness in fingers and both hands.  Still a couple of days later, every thing started tasting metallic, even water.  My leg muscles have weakened significantly.  All of these symptoms are persisting today. 

In June of 2001 I received my first dose of Lymerix, and the next dose in July 2001.  When June 2002 came, I was informed that Lymerix had been dropped by its manufacturer due to "poor sales."  Yeah, right...

During October 2001 I started experiencing a lot of pain in my neck, shoulders, and lower back.  During November 2001, I had MRI's performed on my cervical and lumbar area's.  It was determined that I had spur's growing on C3 & C4 and they were infringing on my spinal cord.  L3 & L4 showed moderate amounts of "degradation".  At that time I was more concerned with my lower back pain.  While consulting the Neuro-surgeon, he made it out like my neck was more of a problem.  He finally decided that neither was a candidate for surgery, so I was prescribed tramadol and flexeril.  They work to a small degree.  The lower back and the neck issues he diagnosed as arthritis.  He commented that it was surprising to him that I had such growths at my age.  I am 48 now and have always kept in good shape.  Arthritis in not in my families history.

Since I was having this numbness, I had MRI's performed on my neck last week.  The film reader described the arthritic growth as "significant increases" in comparison with my previous films of 11/01.  In fact, there is not any space left around the spinal cord.  The jury is still out on whether surgery is needed to fix that, but again, the experts can't say what is causing the numbness.  I have been roaming the web reading about the side-effects of Lymerix.  It certainly appears to me that I am showing symptoms of Lymes.  I have the large swollen lymph glands in my arm pits.  I have the numbness, the stiff neck, the severe muscle fatigue, the disorientation and loss of balance.  I had a blood sed test performed, it came back at 27, well above the high point of 15.

I have an appointment with my personal Doctor this week for some advice on how to proceed with my health.  I also will ask him to test me again for Lymes.  I was tested in 1999 and did not appear to have it then.  I have not had any tick bites in a very long time.  Besides, Lymes is not very common in NW Florida, where I work and play.

I'm wondering if I also need an appointment with our personal injury lawyers.  Is there other conditions that exhibit these symptoms that I am overlooking?  Does my symptoms appear to be Lymes?