Anyone else get crazy visual hallucinations on artemisinin?
Stupid babesia is totally messing up hubby again, added in artemesinin, but no improvement yet.
This sucks
Posted by Keebler (Member # 12673) on :
- Just replied to a similar question at another thread. Sorry but too tired to edit - I think this will fit here just the way it is and hope this helps.
- While hallucinations can happen with lyme due to toxicity, inflammation and infection in the brain (do call the doctor to be sure) . . .
. . . what seems like hallucinations may not be that but the way lyme can clobber the entire inner and middle ear area, the vestibular system.
NYSTAGMUS (twitching of the eyes can make things appear to twist, bend, move, even flip upside down).
Vestibular symptoms -
Posted by Keebler (Member # 12673) on :
- Halllucinations are possible if porphyrins are elevated.
Artemisinin requires the liver detox pathway, Cytochrome P-450. For many with lyme, this can be just overwhelmed. If that creates a "Secondary Porphyria" or brings out a genetic porphryia, that high level of porphyrins can cause all kinds of hallucinations.