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Posted by suki444 (Member # 4261) on :

Hi
I really need suggestions -my brain fog is really, really bad a lot of the time and I have to sit an exam soon. I have it no matter if I am on Lyme/Babs or Bart treatment, it comes and goes.

I'd really appreciate hearing what worked for other people!

Many thanks
emma

Posted by lymeHerx001 (Member # 6215) on :

Mine gets worse when I over sleep,

Try some Ginko, vinpocentine, piracetam, DMAE, plain ol coffee, guarana, psudoephedrine might help.

I cant take any of those any more due to MCS but they might help with you.

Also take some benadryl at night to help you get a good nights sleep. Sleep is very important.

Posted by bettyg (Member # 6147) on :

emma, [group hug]

we ALL go thru this so you are not alone!

what helps many of us is making notes or stickies of things to do, and mark them off as done as we do them.

go to top and click SEARCH

type in brain fog
medical
subject
any date
leave membership no. blank; hit enter

read all the posts/replies you get; if none show up, hit BACK button and change subject to body text; leave everything else, and hit send ... read those posts/replies.

lots of expertise shared already; best wishes! [group hug]

Posted by ticks_me_off (Member # 14929) on :

quote:
Originally posted by lymeHerx001:
Mine gets worse when I over sleep,

Try some Ginko, vinpocentine, piracetam, DMAE, plain ol coffee, guarana, psudoephedrine might help.

I cant take any of those any more due to MCS but they might help with you.

Also take some benadryl at night to help you get a good nights sleep. Sleep is very important.

Okay, I'm pretty new to this so please bear with me [Smile]

My question is, why does pseudoephedrine (sp??)
work for brain fog?

In addition to Lyme, I also have pretty bad allergies. When I take Claritin-D (which has the pseudoephedrine) I feel FANTASTIC. It seriously alleviates many of my lyme symptoms. It helps my brain fog, headaches, fatigue, energy and probably more that I am forgetting [bonk]

I wonder if many of the symptoms that I think are Lyme, are actually allergies?

I'm so confused! The only problem I have with Claritin-D is that I cannot fall asleep and it keeps me up most of the night.....which is why I don't really take it anymore. I wish I could, because I felt so much better when I took it.

Posted by dontlikeliver (Member # 4749) on :

Diet Coke with Sudafed non-drowsy.....don't know why but it used to help me.

Posted by lymeHerx001 (Member # 6215) on :

quote:
Originally posted by dontlikeliver:
Diet Coke with Sudafed non-drowsy.....don't know why but it used to help me.

its a stimulant

Posted by lymeHerx001 (Member # 6215) on :

by the way they make METH out of Sudafed.

That should be a clue.

I used to be an epherdrine addict and it really messed up my Lyme brain in the long term for the worse.

I became a bipolar schitzophrenic for a while and had panic attacks and severe depression.

Short term its great! [bonk]

Posted by TerryK (Member # 8552) on :

Rather than type my answers again, here is a link to a thread on brain fog.

http://flash.lymenet.org/ubb/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=065701#000012

Terry

Posted by lymebytes (Member # 11830) on :

I posted something similar a few days ago. My LLMD had first my son go on Activated Charcoal after a toxic herx on Flagyl, he was well in 4 days. So then I followed and tried this stuff. It can be bought over the counter.

Brain fog in simple terms is a lyme toxin die off and circulates throughout the body. I thought all this was baloney, trust me, I learned my lesson and can't believe how intelligent my LLMD is.

This is an amazing "detox" and cleared my brain fog within 2 days...I could not believe it.

I was so impressed I recently posted a thread about it and many links for study. It works excellent.

For those who are nauseated...stops nausea instantly, unlike popular belief that it will make you throw up...UH NO..maybe the hosptial version but not the kind bougth at vitamin stores..remember ACTIVATED charcoal.

After my sons amazing recovery story using A/C, I know several people who are now using it and cannot believe how well it works.

Here is more: http://www.truthaboutlymedisease.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=286

Posted by daise (Member # 13622) on :

Hi suki444,

Exams coming up ... [dizzy]

Possibly, do you have hypothyroidism? Have you been tested (TSH, Free T4 and Free T3)? Yet, brain fog wouldn't typically come and go.

Have you been diagnosed with hypothyroidism and are you taking thyroid hormone? If so, it has to be absorbed. What would cause brain fog to come and go could be non-absortion of thyroid hormone.

Over the course of weeks it could very well make you hypothyroid.

Wait one full hour after taking thyroid hormone, before eating. No iron (in a multiple or added to cereal, for example) for 3 hours. No calcium (in a multiple or added to orange juice or cereal, for example) for 4 hours. Anytime: a very small amount of tofu and the like, if at all.

Too much thyroid hormone so that you are getting hyperthyroid will make you tired and could give you brain fog, as will too little thyroid hormone or thyroid hormone that is not absorbed.

There is a lot of hypothyroidism in Lymeland, as Lyme can go after our thyroid.

This is just a possibility.

daise [Smile]

Posted by suki444 (Member # 4261) on :

thanks everyone, some good suggestions there to try. I don't have hypothyroidism, had the tests done properly several times and it's normal.

I cannot tolerate coffee or pseudoephidrine they cause symptoms to get worse.

DLL Sudafed and diet coke...LOL [woohoo]

Emma

Posted by CherylSue (Member # 13077) on :

Lymebyte's web reference is a fantastic source on activated charcoal for herxing.

BTW, doxycycline cleared up my brainfog in 10 days.

CherylSue