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Topic: Triggers for Unreality Feelings?

mazou
LymeNet Contributor
Member # 15319

posted

What triggers or worsens your feelings of unreality? I am making a master list so that I can begin to eliminate the possible problems.

For me, potential triggers are:

1. caffeine

2. anxiety

3. lack of sleep

4. lack of breathing (e.g., concentrating or anxious, not taking deep breaths)

5. sugar crash

Hopefully this helps others out there as well. I look forward to comments or other possible trigger suggestions.

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

posted

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The VESTIBULAR system ( inner and middle ear) is often affected by lyme and by some medications. When the ears are affected, vision can be affected, one's proprioceptor receptors are off kilter and can make a person not sure of where they are in space. And on and on - and on.

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http://www.vestibular.org/vestibular-disorders/symptoms.php

VESTIBULAR SYMPTOMS

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Specific for LYME patients - lots of details about ears and what can help:

http://flash.lymenet.org/scripts/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=065801

Topic: TINNITUS: Ringing Between The Ears; Vestibular, Balance, Hearing with compiled links - including HYPERACUSIS
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nefferdun
Frequent Contributor (1K+ posts)
Member # 20157

posted

Recently I have had a run of tragedies and that leaves me feeling disconnected as if things are not real. So I would say shock is a big one.
Also getting sick, even with something other than lyme etc, brings on fear that I am relapsing which leads to the disconnected unreal feelings. I guess any strong negative emotion does this to me.

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old joke: idiopathic means the patient is pathological and the the doctor is an idiot

Posts: 4676 | From western Montana | Registered: Apr 2009 | IP: Logged |

mazou
LymeNet Contributor
Member # 15319

posted

Wow. Thank you!

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