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I'd like to hear your experiences with lyme rage.....I'm not quite sure what it really is or does....I've had quite a few experiences over the past year with uncontrollable thoughts of anger or rage and not really know why.....
I was diagnosed March 04 with Lyme so it's still very much a learning process for me.....after being diagnosed of course I went back in my mind and tried to analyze things.......
I'm a very positive, out-going, out-spoken, fun-loving person.......so when these thoughts come from nowhere and seemingly angry to who knows what it's scary......just wondered what form of lyme rage anyone would want to share......
------------------ Debbie V.
Posts: 125 | From Louisiana | Registered: Oct 2004
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lyme rage can be a sign of the co-infection Bartonella. My son has rages. He is only 6 mind you so it is like a wicked, nasty temper tantrum. Any time he does not like the answer to something or if he does not get his way he goes into a rage. Other times when he is trying to do something and it does not go well he goes into a rage. Growling, yelling in our faces, making ugly faces and actually rolling his eyes around. VERY out of control. Nothing we do helps him get thru it. We have tried many many types of behavior mods and we have even tried taking his favorite cars away in an attempt to get him to stop and it does not work, he just gets angrier and angrier. It builds and builds. He gets insolent and says he hates us. We cannot comfort him either at this time. He is out there and will tell you "something is making me do this, I dont want to". It is very sad. Later when he finally does calm down he is very sorry and sad that it happened. It has gotten much worse since treating his positive lyme. It all started since being bitten.He is the worst when very tired like after school (luckily he has not done this in school)or right before bed and when he is hungary. pattiecake
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When I start gettin' angry, I start the vibrating feeling inside. Take a valium early, & don't let people do it to ya, it's not worth it. I have no advice, on a kid though?
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Hi Debbie, I had this same problem. I would get so angry.
For example I have two cats who are my world. I coodle them all the time. When I would try to get to sleep my cat always trys to get me to pet her. I just want to sleep. This has made me so angry I would toss her off the the bed but what I really wanted to do was toss her at the wall.
Such severe anger. I had this for years then when I started antibiotics my anger stopped. That was the first symptom to dissapear. Thank God! So for me it was antibiotics. I had been on antidepressants and that never worked for me.
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I have no answer but it's like PMS 100 times over............. I usually take a benadryl and try and stay away from people........which isn't easy to do as we all know. I recently went thru my longest bout with it........over a week........I was on an antibiotic at the time.........not that that has anything to do with it.........I think it is just a cycle.
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thanks for your replies.....my thoughts and prayers are with you all.....especially with a child....I cannot imagine how they must feel.....to not understand why you are acting and saying the things we do.....
mine has definitely gotten better over the past year....I've been on prozac for years and it was a life saver....my uncontrollable awful thoughts were like somebody turned a horror movie on and I couldn't shut it off......
it has also gotten better since my dx of Lyme last year.....I would rather have the physical pain of Lyme versus the mental......for me the mental out of control thought patterns scared me the most....
by the grace of God and my beloved LLMD this past year has been MUCH better.....I've just learned that it's another part of Lyme we don't understand....it was almost a relief to know it was something physcially wrong than thinking I was a nut case.......bty I'm blonde and a nut case too. haha
I'm so glad for this wonderful Lyme Net family I now have here.......my mom always said in everything negative there has to be a positive and there is always a reason for everything......so the positive is meeting and sharing and helping each other in here......I can't even begin to understand all this but I know my God doesn't make mistakes......He is still in control and sometimes that's the only peace I have......resting in Him........and again thanks for your replies.....we're in this together.........
------------------ Debbie V.
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