I had this before I started treatment, now its back after treating for two additional months and it's really bothering me, making it impossible to get through my work day.
-High blood pressure feeling (I know when I have this because my blood pounds when I lay my head on the pillow at night. I feel anxiety and a funny feeling in my left ear. I have air hunger. I can just tell when my normally normal BP is up)
-Air hunger; seems to come in unison with the high BP and sometimes with a tight chest
-DIZZINESS; again, not sure if a babs cause or a babs causing high BP which causes dizziness. But it's almost too debilitating to drive a car, walk the hallways at my office, or exist at all.
-A little bit of depersonalization
-Brain confusion, fogginess feeling
-Migraine type headache that forms slowly as the day goes on and is throbbing by night time/days end.
These symptoms seemed to improve slightly... now they're a mess again the last 2 days.
Searching for hope, answers, advice but mostly just someone to talk to. It is making me not want to live life anymore
Posted by TF (Member # 14183) on :
Do you get it every 7 days, or every 14 days or any pattern like that? If so, it is definitely a babs herx.
My lyme doc said that babs has a 7-day cycle and a 14-day cycle. I experienced both when I was treating babs.
My babs flares were totally debilitating. All I did was lay. I couldn't talk, eat, walk, etc. for 48 hours. I had both physical and mental symptoms.
Good treatment until I no longer had any flare symptoms whatsoever was how I knew that I had beaten babs.
It got to where my flare was just a need to lay down and take a nap. But, it was a very strong need. When I no longer had even that, when I was perfectly normal on the anticipated flare days, then I was finished with treatment.
That was over 10 years ago now and I am still symptom free.
So, hopefully, you just need to treat babs a few more months. And, be on the lookout for those flare symptoms. It is actually the symptoms or lack thereof that let the doctor know when treatment is or isn't complete.
Posted by GretaM (Member # 40917) on :
Yes sounds like toxins from killing babesia could be contributing to your symptoms. Does increasing detox methods help? Of all the heroes, I found detoxing more helped the babesia heroes the most. Take care