“Lyme can affect the nerves that are responsible for controlling the muscles in the vocal cords,” says Amesh A. Adalja, MD, an infectious disease specialist at Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security. “As a result, someone could technically lose their voice if they had Lyme disease.”
"This report presents a case of dysarthria due to hypoglossal nerve mono-neuropathy as the only consequence of neuroborreliosis."
"It happened, for instance, to the multiplatinum country singer Shania Twain and, well, it happened to me."
"Country music star Shania Twain suffered a singer’s worst nightmare — losing her voice — and the cause of the problem was eventually traced to an unlikely source: a tick bite."
"A case of Lyme neuroborreliosis with bilateral recurrent laryngeal nerve palsy"
"Lyme disease has been associated with a wide variety of persistent neuropsychological and cognitive symptoms, including:
Impaired attention, focus, concentration, judgment, and impulse control
Impaired memory and speech functions
Disorganization and getting lost
Poor problem-solving and decision-making abilities
Slower mental processing speed
Issues similar to those seen in dementia andAlzheimer's"
"Motor speech disorders occur when damage to your nervous system prevents you from fully controlling parts of your body that control speech, like your tongue, voice box (larynx) and jaw. Dysarthria makes it challenging to speak so that others can understand you."
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