daystar1952
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I have both babesia and lyme. I get the air hunger, the sweats or chills....but I am wondering if anyone gets this kind of symptom? I know many of you speak of cramps and magnesium so I just bought magnesium oil to apply transdermally. This is supposed to be very helpful in absorption.I am also taking an oral supplement
It seems that when I go off the artemsinin that I get this strange thing. It's not just cramps in the legs but I will get this sensation that my feet are twitching and going to turn in and then the feeling goes up the body....making contractions elsewhere. When It's really bad the feet do turn in and it's extremely painful but the wierdest part is when my brain feels weird at the same time and the sensation travels up my body.My stomach and other places will tighten up and I'm afraid that my heart will also but that seems to be ok so far
I don't know what I would ever do if I was driving and this happened. It seems that when I am on Babs treatment I don't get this. Anyone else have a clue as to what I'm talking about? It's like the brain is affected in a certain place which controls all the movements and or actions of the whole nervous system?
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I get something a bit similar to you, and maybe you can identify with it? In the middle of the night I may get a strong cramp in my calf and this is soon followed by this really sick , malaise like feeling that goes through my body. It just makes you want to lie down, however, you cannot lie down because of the miserable and painful cramp in your leg! Is this at all similar to what you get when you get leg or foot cramps? I don't seem to get this same thing with the foot cramps, just the calf cramps.
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daystar1952
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Pegee....your symptoms sound a bit different but maybe it's the same mechanism. This is almost more like a seizure of some sort...as if the brain has something to do with it. I'm wondering if NORMAL leg or foot cramps originate in the muscle itself but then when the strange feeling in the head goes along with it all, the feet turn in and then it's like the same type of sensation goes up to the stomach and then the chest...etc. I'm wondering if this type is caused by something going on in the brain. I don't really get a sick feeling.
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Margie:
I get horrible muscle cramps - constant in my legs. I am testing my mineral levels a couple of mornings a week using the Bodybio system. I then supplement with the minerals I find that I am defficient in. not so oddly, magnesium is one that I am consistently low in.
You can google Bodybio and see if that might be something you are interested in. The minerals are in liquid form and easily absorbed.
I am also very excited about virgin coconut oil which I have recently bought a gallon of. You may want to google Tropical Traditions. There are other brands but this is the one I ordered. They seem to have ethical standards. Don't believe what the mainstream tells you about the highly processed unsaturated vegetable oils. Virgin olive oil is good but it is still better to cook with coconut oil as it is more stable. It also contains lauric acid which is antifungal, viral, bacterial and protozoal....and.....it tastes DELICIOUS!!
Those in the tropics have eaten these fats from ...well just about forever and have very low incidence of heart disease, diabetes, etc. Take a peek and do some research. They are finding out that the processed polyunsaturates are causing cancer.
It is postulated that even if the coconut oil doesn't kill the lyme germ that it does kill other organisms and thus would reduce our microbial load and help our immune systems to work a little better. Coconut oil is also fun to slather all over your body to help fungal infections and decrease aging and sun damage of the skin. Whatever you apply to your skin is absorbed....so someone once said....unless you can eat it , don't put it on your skin! I like that one! :-)
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