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I have beeen off antibiotics for a few weeks, doc says my body needed a break. Well, during this break, I caught a nasty respiratory virus, which I'm pretty much clear of.
Then, I've been feeling pretty "lymie" the past few days with fatigue and head pressure and body aches.
Today, I was at my therapists office and she was trying to explain something to me. I wasn't really understanding the concept. She had to go over and over and over it in a dozen different ways before I caught on.
I asked her what she observed and she said I was "slow on the uptake today. slower than usual".
Ok, I got less sleep than usual last night, but am not yawning or feeling other signs of sleep deprivtion.
I was scared driving home, hypervigilant when going through intersections..
Everything seemed so much more complicated today.
I rescheduled my doctor's apointment, that was tomorrow, for a day when my husband could drive me.
My doctor is a 60 mile drive each way, a combination of LA freeways and windy mountain roads.
There is no way I want to chance feeling like this next week.
No way I'm going to plan on driving anywhere except short drives to places I'm really familiar with, like the store or the park
Is this from the lyme bacteria gathering up speed and assaulting my braIN ?
oR should I just chalk it up to not enough sleep?
Since I've been on Namenda, I haven't had brain fog like this. Scarey.
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Are you treating for Babesia? I've been having that same feeling for a week now, and it happened on the way to meet with my LLMD yesterday. We pretty much chalked it up to Babs, and started a treatment regimen.
Funny you say you caught a respiratory virus. For a couple weeks while I was on amoxicillin, I had what seemed like a sinus infection, and I started producing BRIGHT neon yellow mucus from my sinuses and throat in the morning. I know that part has pretty much cleared up, but it could certainly be an effecting illness traveling around?
Just so you feel like you're not alone, I was panicking in the car too. Not fun driving on 5-lane highways when I'm feeling like everything around me is WEIRD. I have a bit of a drive to my LLMD as well.
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I had a response typed out, then my cat jumped up on the keyboard and erased the whole thing.I'm trying to see if I can get him situated so he isn't sitting on the keyboard....aha, so far so good.....he's happy
Thanks for the words of encouragement. The worst part of driving for me are streets. when I'm feeling weird, I constantly feel like cars are going to jump out at me from the cross streets. On one medication, I would run stop signs. On another medication, I stopped at intersections that didn't have stop signs. I've gotten used to the medication more now, so I feel comfortable driving around town...most days. I used to skip my neuropathy medication if I was going to drive any distance, but the pricklies and stabbing gremlins get me if I do that.
It's 1;20PM and all I've done today is eat two small avocados with cheese and salsa followed by cocoa nibs and a cup of coffee ...I called that breakfast. I usually whip up one of my low carb cinnamon microwave muffins for breakfast.
My Mom was telling me that a mother of a friend of hers has Lyme disease. They were telling her all the symptoms, problems she was having. My Mom said she has heard those same words come out of my mouth.
I'm home alone with my six cats. I have one next door neighbor family who are nice, but keep to themselves most of the time. About a quarter mile a way, there is a store with a house attached and they run the local mule packing for the hike in cabins in the area. I'm friends with them, but not the kind of friends one calls up and gets support from.
Any of my friends "from the city" would have to drive five miles up into the mountains to the end of the road to visit me. Three miles are a windy mountain road, 2 lanes with little to no shoulder. How many of us have friends who are available during normal working hours?
I told my therapist I think I'm depressed (not an unexpected thing since I'm bipolar) and she suggested I call my psychiatrist. You know, I don't want more psych meds....I think I'm depressed because I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired. If I'm still depressed Monday and I'm feeling better physically, maybe I'll call. I'm in that inbetween state...sort of a limbo... I feel too tired and foggy to do anything.... But if I want to bed, I don't think I'd fall asleep. On the other hand, it might be worth a try. I'll stay online a bit longer, then go seek the pillows.....
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What is Namenda?
I have to drive 130 miles tomorrow to my LLMD. I have no idea how I'll make it.
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Namenda is a drug used to treat alzheimers disease. It helped my poor lyme brain a lot. However, I am realizing, it is not as magic a pill as it first seemed. Man, when I first got on it....I swear I was too happy! I mean, I was not used to feeling what I believe to be "normal".
Hey, you will either be driving farther away from me or closer to me tomorrow! You have a CA llmd who is open on Saturdays? i bet they don't take insurance, that would just be tooooo good. I'm in zip 91025. What's your zip? Pardon me if I have talked to you before and forgot.
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