Topic: Please.....Need some help with Mental Symptoms
tricia386
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Okay I apologize this might be long.
Does anyone else get songs stuck in their head. I dont actually hear the music just lyrics of the song stuck in my head. Usually the last comercial or last song I listen to on the radio. It will play over and over the same line and switch to a new song.
Second. Does anyone else get Obessive thoughts. I dont have compulsions. But sometimes I get an obessed thought in my head. Sometimes I will think I am schizophrenic. Or I am Bi-polar or sometimes I will get obessed with my breating.
Third. This doesnt happen every night. But sometimes when I am trying to go to sleep. My mind will race with thoughts, imaged memories. Its like one thing leads to another thing and its completely un realted. This freaks me out. I can see a picture in my head of finger nails painted than I will pan to a memory from my child hood. Its almost like very vivid dreaming. Sometimes I will get scary images they will freak me out and I will panic. Then I panic I have some kind of mental illness. This seems to happen along with a herx.
Does any of this sound lyme related or is their something else going on. I have such bad anxiety that I have some mental disease or I am going to go crazy.
Again sorry so long
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lymielauren28
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Yes, yes and yes. I can especially relate to seeing scary images while trying to fall asleep. Makes you feel looney. All this went away after Bart treatment. I was reinfected with Bart and it came back again.
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tricia386
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I guess it would make sense that its flaring I am using A-Bart and Zith. I hate it. I just want to cry. I have this scared feeling in me and I hate this obessive thoughts.
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Sounds like you are describing what is called musical hallucinations. This has been written up in the medical journals as a lyme symptom.
Don't think there is any special treatment other than to treat the infection.
Bea Seibert
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tricia386
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Bea-
I dont actually hear the song. I just get usually the hook verse stuck in my head. But I dont hear music.
I have been treting for a year and its a symptom that come and goes.
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I have this and I'm pretty sure it's related to Bart. It gets worse if I have a food that I'm allergic too or too much of a starch that converts to sugar. When I was on Zith for bart it got better for a bit. Seems a little better now too on Buhner.
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Keebler
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- First, be sure your LLMD knows about this. Infections may need more attention. Or your LIVER might.
A Glutathione IV has helped many to stop the neuro-toxic psychological reactions.
A LL therapist should be able to help in many ways but if they are not LL, they are not likely to fully understand the mechanisms.
These help me to calm down icky neuro-excitatory action: ------------
LIVER Support
Magnesium - up to 2,000 mg a day in divided doses - never all at once (to bowel tolerance)
Calcium
Zinc
Taurine
Fish Oil - a teaspoon every few hours
Holy Basil, Skullcap (which is only good as tincture, not capsules)
ADRENAL Support
B-5, B-6
Going scent-free; gluten-free and additive-free is also important to lower the excitatory stressors.
Excitotoxins; MSG; Aspartame; & "Natural" Flavors -
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Keebler
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- Sometimes, the only way to stop thinking of a particular song is to put on other music - without lyrics and without lines of melody that repeat.
The music of MOZART and HAYDN (either Pappa or Son) has been shown to be the best for the brain.
Ambient music like Brian Eno's "Music For Airports"
or Native music of the Celts (think ethereal Irish flute), Enya,
Native American music (such as Carlos Nakai).
Jeffrey Thompson has developed many CDs good for the brain:
tricia386
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Well, my question is..dont i need IV's then to get better if its neurolyme
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tricia386
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Do IM bicillan cross blood brain barrier?
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Tricia: First yes, Second yes, Third yes. Gees, I thought it was just me. Glad to know I'm not the only one.
I've always, whether sick or well, had an overloaded brain. The dang thing never shuts off. The music thing - I hear complete pieces of music with full orchestration inside my head, but I actually rather like that. (call me crazy)
Man, I really relate to your third issue. Since I've been sick, my brain is constantly playing home movies. Like I'm reliving every little piece of my life, and not necessarily my favorite parts. It's a bit disturbing.
I shall chalk it up to Lyme and company and cross my fingers my head settles down. And yours. Wish I had some solutions for you, but the best I can do is say I have the same problems!
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lyme in Putnam
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Omg, I'm thinking and seeing things from past big time. I live in depersonalization, feel like a schizo, when it dies own, it's just me and my life. I'm on Iv rocephin for another month and oral zithro.
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I agree with Keebler. My brain symptoms are the worst and sounds drive me crazy. I played classical piano for 40 years, but sometimes I cannot stand to hear it and I obsess over a tune.
So I play Mozart. And I like Kleigel cello music. If I play soft classical music at bedtime I rest more easily. We got headphones for my husband so I do not have to listen to the tv. I also listen to New Age music and even sounds of rain or ocean.
Another thing that helps me is my essential oil burner. Everyone is different so you have to experiment. But lavender, chamomile, bergamot, lime, eucalyptus are my favorites to use at bedtime. Frankincense is also good for the mind.
I am told that I must move on to IV antibiotics so I will probably do so, as soon as I figure out which protocol makes sense and how I will afford it!
Change the tune! You can do it!
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