Take care.

We're a very few number of people that do on here, you and I.. but at least you are not alone!

Jodie

he is a hunter/beagler in the northeast, and has been bitten multiple times.

Despite our tribulations, he doesn't believe in Lyme..at least for him. It doesn't help that his Docs have run the inaccurate tests, all negative..

I was wondering (Lla or anyone) if you could post on this thread any related articles re: sleep apnea, or Babesiosis and sleep apnea.

Mo

I will be going in for another sleep study in a couple of weeks, to officially check it out.

I do know that sleep apnea is a problem associated with Bb and babesia. Sleep apnea is not only caused by obstruction there is something called Central Sleep Apnea.

Central sleep apnea is much less common. It is caused by some problem in the central nervous system, most likely a failure of the brain to signal the airway muscles to breathe. In such cases, oxygen levels drop abruptly and usually the sleeper wakes with a start. Often people with central sleep apnea recall waking up. They generally experience less sleepiness during the day than people with obstructive sleep apnea.

I've been lurking around for awhile but didn't plan on contributing anything for some time.

I've had what I now realize (thanks to dontlikeliver) are lyme-like symptoms (fatigue and brainfog being the worst) for at least 20 years. My lyme test was negative and I've never had a bulls-eye rash.

Like lymelighter, my sleep study showed no REM or stage 3/4 NREM. I was told I don't have apnea. My wife assures me that I do and I suspect that it occurs only during periods when I can actually reach deep sleep. I have other reasons to believe that I've had it since I was young. I managed to obtain CPAP and use it every night.

My symptoms vary with the seasons and with the barometric pressure. Bright-light "therapy" for possible Seasonal Affective Disorder did nothing even though I tried to make it work for six years, getting up to 22,500 lux for more than an hour every day. Nonetheless, the sleep doc told me I have delayed sleep phase syndrome with resulting seasonal effects and that this would account for the poor sleep quality.

I suspect, instead, that I feel better by the end of summer because the bacteria that I think infects me doesn't like heat. I also think it prefers the reduced oxygen that would go along with a drop in barometric pressure.

I tried high levels of minocycline at the end of last summer (when I was feeling pretty good already) but was disappointed by the absence of a herx. By the end of this winter I was feeling pretty bad again and tried two days of a low dose of Cipro (with a little minocycline). I spent most of the next two days in bed with what amounted to, I think, meningitis (stiff neck, headache, fatigue, swollen lymph nodes). So this gives me more evidence that bacteria is my problem.

So I think that I'm infected with a bacterium, and that that bacterium is anaerobic. I wonder, then, if years of apnea, with the hypoxia that goes with it, facilitates the growth and dissemination of borrelia. I realize that the specific agent that causes Lyme proper doesn't need much encouragement--I'm thinking in terms of the model describing a possible borrelia pandemic (described in the manuscript by the Houston physicians) involving the putative person-to-person transfer of borrelia strains. Perhaps some people have infections that remain subclinical until something like apnea (or immune suppression, or whatever) really fosters bacterial growth.

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Originally posted by phage:
My lyme test was negative and I've never had a bulls-eye rash.

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phage,
It's important to be tested by a lab that specializes in LD. Igenex is the most popular lab to use for the WB test. If you were not tested by Igenex, then disregard your previous lab test result, because there is a good chance that it could have been a "false negative" result.
www.igenex.com

I see that this is your first post. WELCOME to LymeNet!

You are in good company and will receive lots of help here if you aren't too timid to post your questions.

LLMDs (two) have diagnosed me with Lyme and several co-infections. The biological dentist who removed the mercury from my teeth thinks I have sleep apnea, based on a thorough medical history review and new patient evaluation.

My family doctor has referred me for a sleep study to test for sleep apnea.

I've had Lyme symptoms, sleeping problems, and daytime tiredness all my life. I've had high blood pressure and edema in my feet and ankles for about 5 years. I'm now 33.