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mary's picture

My daughter is a 25 years old. At age 23 I started to notice her dragging her right leg. Then, came stumbling, then came problems with the left leg, and shaking in her right hand. For a while she could walk by herself. Then she had to use a walker because the falling started to happen more often. Now she doesn't use a walker anymore, I am her walker. When we go places she is usually in a wheel chair. Now her left arm is starting to shake. The shaking is a wide shake not a short shake. They have ran every blood test they can think of and they said it was depression. Now she has been fighting a headache for four days. I help in and out of bed. To the bathroom in the shower. The only thing I don't help her with is her feeding. She can still feed herself but it's not without difficulty. I am lost. I don't know what else to do. Help please!
Kris Carpenter's picture

it might be Lyme disease. see a LLMD