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I'm diagnosed with Bartonella and Lyme and reoccuring mono. Does anyone else out there have trouble with obsessive, unwanted thoughts? I feel like I'm going crazy. Clearly, if I didn't care what I was thinking, this wouldn't be a problem. I wasn't this way until I got sick. I remember what it used to be like to be normal. I feel like I'm on the verge of Tourette's as well. I have to change words in order not to say horrible things.
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Are you currently in treatment/ on antibiotics?
The obsessive, unwanted thoughts, and compulsions, sound like a Pediatric disorder called PANDAS (strep induced) or PANS (lyme and co- infections induced)
basically it is the infections causing inflammation in the brain, causing rouge antibodies to attack the basal ganglia, creating a onset of specific symptoms, such as OCD, tics, etc.
Ibuprofen can help alliveate it slightly, but treating the infections is paramount. Azithromycin, Biaxin, have been helpful to my daughter with this condition specifically.
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Thanks. Yes, I'm on triple antibiotic therapy. I am taking Biaxin. Sometimes I smile too, at things I shouldn't, and it feels uncontrollable. If I were not sick I would think I was possessed. I did have multiple strep infections over the last three years. I just want the insanity to be over. Emotionally it is very difficult to be Christian, and try to keep this under control.
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