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I'm on lyme, babesia, bartonella protocol. As I went to bed the other night, my brain started shaking inside my skull and it seemed to last a while. It has done this before but never for so long. Now it feels swollen in one place and hurts some in that area. That hasn't happened before.
Is this something to worry about? Can you have damage?
Anything to take to heal the area?
Will talk with my doc soon about this but wanted your input, too. Thanks.
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I have that happen too! I have all sorts of tender spots on my head. Hurts to brush sometimes.
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You may likely have muscle spazms in your head area - typically on the back of the skull. When you lay down and relax, it may trigger the shaking sensation to make you think it's your brain.
I say this because you ended up with sore spots on your skull. This is called 'Referred Pain', which is pain that appears in an area different than the source.
For example, the muscle spazm(s) that is at the base of your skull, refers pain over the top of your head and behind your eye, or down through your ear to your jaw, or makes your hair 'hurt'.
Poke hard around with your knuckle and see if you find any spots that may feel like small lumps and hurt like heck. Find any?
We get these spazms from Magnesium deficiency, which is caused by Lyme.
You need to do 2 things - bust up the spazms, and properly address the magnesium deficiency so that this does not keep recurring in the future (because it will happen again if you don't).
I think at one point I had a half dozen spazms on my head and shoulders, causing me excruciating pain and nightime 'shuddering'.
Trigger point injections of lidocaine shot into the spazm(s) blissfully numbs the area causing the pain, while the needle itself helps disrupt the spazm and restore blood flow to the area. I had at least 4 series of shots (about every 10 days) to get rid of the ones covering the back of my skull and shoulders (that I had no idea that I had).
Taking oral magnesium, while necessary, will not effectively restore your magnesium levels. IV (which is easy, 20 minutes, tiny needle, and you're done) or IM shots are key.
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