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My afternoon crashes have gotten worse lately. I'm sooo sick for hours, usually 4-5 hours lately. If I'm lucky, it lets up a little by evening where I can function. Do a lot of you have these severe afternoon crashes? I'm starting to wonder if something else is wrong with me other than lyme. I feel feverish lately with these crashes too.
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map1131
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Afternoon crashes are a common lyme symptom. Including feverish feeling or even running an actual fever, also typical.
I will say it's better to rest as much as possible during the afternoon. Sometimes that can't happen in real life. But your body is trying to tell you.....take care of me.
So rest as much as possible.
Pam
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- Lyme fevers tend to be more evident in mid afternoon. Try to roll with it. It's all part of the deal. It took me a long time to figure that out but it's much easier to know it just comes with the territory. And this part of it will fade away but it may take months. Do tell your LL doctor at you next visit, though.
Be sure you are getting enough water. Green Tea is also a good helper. Best to drink it hot, though, not cold. If we drink cold drinks, the body has to work so much harder to turn up the thermostat inside to warm us up.
Energy crises (even continuous ones) are very common with lyme and during treatment, too.
Rather than "crash" I change my vocabulary to my brain and have come to see it as my body's call for rest. It's very important to shut down and rest so that the body has a chance to weather this and get better.
As rough as it can be, it helps to not fight it but support the body with adrenal support and aggressive rest. It can help to schedule it in and know that from this time to that time, each day, it's lights out.
Then the evening might have a better chance.
Still, some may have only short time frames to be up and about. And it can vary but don't push it. Don't punish your body and push it beyond what's wise. It can be very tempting to do that but we have to drop all that "should be able to do . . . " stuff.
Bottom line: listen to your body. If it tells you it needs to rest, that's an order. It can be tricky distinguishing what the body needs vs. what we want. The body's needs take precedence - but I can visualize while resting all the things I'd rather be doing.
Visualization is very important during rest time. -
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Yes! So glad to hear about someone else having the afternoon fevers! (Not glad that you have them... but glad that I'm not an anomaly) Mine start at 1pm, sometimes with my coworkers asking me if they "said something that embarassed me?", because my face goes beet-red, continues on for as long as I am awake. At 7pm every evening I become lethargic and out of it, and my fever is sometimes accompanied by mild seizures. That normally lasts for another hour, and then when I am able to function enough I crawl into bed.
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Afternoon crashes can also be caused from thyroid and adrenal problems.
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