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Topic: Artemisinin and visual hallucinations?

WheelWatcher
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Member # 34223

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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

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IgM ++41, IND 31, 34, 39, 83-93
IgG IND 41

"To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world." - unknown

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Keebler
Honored Contributor (25K+ posts)
Member # 12673

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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.

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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).

MAGNESIUM can help calm this. Talk to the doctor.

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http://vestibular.org/understanding-vestibular-disorder/symptoms

VESTIBULAR SYMPTOMS

[note that nearly every one can go along with lyme or other tick-borne infections]

http://www.asha.org/aud/articles/CentralVestib.htm

Vestibular symptoms
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Keebler
Honored Contributor (25K+ posts)
Member # 12673

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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.

How, Why and what can help:
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http://flash.lymenet.org/scripts/ultimatebb.cgi/topic/1/91842?#000000

Topic: what type of M.D. tests for PORPHYRIA

Many good links here
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