@linedancer18337 Nerve entrapment happens when a nerve gets compressed by something. Nerves travel through some very small spaces in the body and pass in-between denser things. The fascial webbing in the body also gets tight and can put pressure on anything, and added to that is the ergonomics of if everything is aligned as it should be. Inflammation of tissues enlarges them and can further decrease space for the nerves.

My experience with nerve entrapment is with carpal tunnel syndrome, thoracic outlet syndrome, and cervical spinal stenosis, and all are entrapments of nerves, except the stenosis which is compression of the spinal cord. Nerve entrapment usually follows the specific path of the nerve and can express pain anywhere along that path, but not necessarily where the problem is. An example of that would be if there is compression where a nerve exits the spine, the pain can be felt in the body. I've experienced that when a spinal injection caused electric shock type pain in my fingers because the pressure of the fluid had nowhere to go. I was able to trace the path of the nerve up my hand and arm by touching it and it caused an electric shock where I touched. This is a nerve over reacting and feeling pain for something that shouldn't hurt because of compression. When my spinal stenosis got bad enough, I could bend my neck and send an electric shock down my entire body. If you are experiencing something like that, you may want to get some MRI imaging of your entire spine and see if your spinal cord has enough space around it to move properly. The spinal cord can become "tethered" when bone spurs, ruptured discs, or ligaments are impinging on it, and if a vertebrae moves and slips past another, that problem gets worse. This kind of problem can sneak up on a person years after an injury like a whiplash, and you only realize how bad it is after symptoms begin. For me that was 20 years after a whiplash, and spine surgery at Mayo fixed that problem. Cervical stenosis can cause pain anywhere in the body, and my first symptom of spinal cord compression in my neck was ankle pain when I turned my head that I could turn on and off with the position. That progressed over 3 years time with the growth of bone spurs to where I could not turn the pain off, but I could change where it went with my neck position, and at it's worst, send the electric shock down my body.

Your symptoms may be from Lyme or a combination of causes and you need to address each one to find the problem or rule it out. Lyme can mimic many different diseases because of where it settles in the body. Have you been treated for Lyme by an ILADS doctor? They are the group of physicians who best understand treating Lyme and the co-infections. Lyme can easily hide in the body behind bio-films where antibiotics can't reach it, only to emerge at a later date. Treatment of chronic Lyme may be needed over a few years time. The blood tests are also not always accurate. The Western blot test can miss Lyme with a false negative, and years later Lyme may be diagnosed. There is a documentary called "Under Our Skin" about Lyme disease that illustrates the issues and follows several patient cases and some recovered from severe disabilities after eradicating the infections.

Here are some links with information and one for the Igenex testing lab that has more accurate testing. Sometimes the doctors treat patients based in symptoms if their diagnostic tests are not good enough.

Here is a link to ILADS (International Lyme Disease Association). https://www.ilads.org/patient-care/ilads-treatment-guidelines/
https://www.ilads.org/research-literature/controversies-challenges/

Lyme treatment guideline
https://lymediseaseassociation.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/BurrGuide200810.pdf

https://iladef.org/education/lyme-disease-faq/
https://igenex.com/the-igenex-advantage/
https://www.lymedisease.org/lyme-basics/co-infections/babesia/

Lab in Germany https://www.arminlabs.com/en

Find a Massage Therapist certified in Neuromuscular work. Entrapped nerves are part of the training for this modality.

Please try several accupuncture sessions
Give it 20