nefferdun
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My lyme has always flared on full moons and there is one happening right now.
I am much better than I used to be - mainly plagued by bart - but I had to take an imitrex for migraine, my eyes are stinging and I just now had sharp stinging sensations in my back. Yesterday muscle spasms. This ALWAYS comes on full moons and when there was an eclipse back in 2008 that was the sickest I have ever been. I was also very irritable the last two days. I usually have trouble sleeping.
Does anyone else notice that they flare on full moon's. I think it is Buhner that states this happens a lot, in his book.
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I don't notice it. I'm not sure I buy into anything that unusual. Posts: 7545 | From The 5th Dimension - The Twilight Zone | Registered: Mar 2008
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Jane2904
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My daughter has Lyme, Bart, etc.
She says she has a hard time sleeping during a full moon.
Also last couple of days more headaches, lightheaded.
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nefferdun
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It isn't actually as unusual as it sounds. My son's girlfriend has worked in a nursing home and the staff always posted when there was going to be a full moon because the patients were more uncontrollable. Same with emergency rooms - more suicides and accidents. The moon has a powerful influence on us.
I don't know why the spirrochetes would be more active during it but they do have a 28 day cycle and mine just happens to coincide with the full moon.
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Yes. Today I had my first big crash in a long time. Never connected it to the full moon until now.
I started to go for a walk with my husband, then after a short time, I completely shut down and my husband had to get the car and take me home.
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I never thought about it. But what had me searching tonight is my symptoms have returned. I was doing sooo good too! Theyre not as bad as last time but its bad enough. Fever...joint pain...and my left leg muscles feel like i ran 20 miles. You can bet ill be watching what happens the next full moon!
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I just rode the Full Moon Bicycle ride tonight- Was Great till I had a FLAT tire--OucH--Jay--
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Yep. I have been really agitated yesterday and it peaked today. So weird....never noticed it before. Babs symptoms of air hunger really bad today too.
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What else happens every four weeks? The moon cycle.
It's not the moon, it's the natural pattern of the Lyme bacteria.
GOOD FOR YOU for being able to pick out that pattern, but it's nothing to do with the moon. (If that were true I'd be having flares on the crescent moons! )
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On the other hand, certain 'space weather' events can cause my symptoms to flare. In fact, I check all 4 of the following websites daily. If you are affected by the full moon, try checking these daily. I'll bet you notice a correlation, too. Definitely check #2 and #4 below on your worst days.
*Check the dynamic pressure. I have flares a lot when the dynamic pressure is'zero'. Also, check whether it's positive, negative, or neutral. Lately I feel best when it's negative or neutral; horrible when it's positive. It used to be that I'd feel best when it was negative or positive; horrible when it was neutral.
*Pretty much anything that appears on this page causes a flare in me, especially geomagnetic storms, electron fluxes, sudden impulses. It's blank today, so I feel so-so.
I've only been checking this page a couple of years, and geomagnetic activity has been minimal those couple of years, so I haven't been able to determine what effect each and every event might have on my symptoms, just some of them.
*Scroll down to the first graph, the Solar X-ray Flux graph. Red and yellow spikes (solar flares) can cause my symptoms to increase. These same spikes, prior to the onset of the new solar cycle, Solar Cycle 24, used to make me feel better.
*Check the bars on the second graph, too. These bars indicate instability in the earth's geomagnetic field.
*This is the page to check if you're wanting to know how many sunspots are active. Two are showing for today, though there is likely a third just over the sun's limb about to face earth.
*You might also want to look on the left side for information on coronal holes and solar wind streams. We're currently inside a solar wind stream.
The presence of sunspots seem to help me, provided there are no 'magnetic filaments' and they are quiet sunspots with a stable magnetic field. We had a sunspot a couple of weeks ago with a beta delta magnetic field, and my symptoms were HORRIFIC.
The formation of new sunspots often helps my symptoms to improve. Likewise with the 'arrival' of solar wind streams. Until these solar wind streams arrive, a product of coronal mass ejections, my symptoms often worsen temporarily.
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nefferdun
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I haven't done space weather before. That is interesting.
Maybe some people do react more to other moon phases than the full moon. Lyme does cycle every 28 days, just like the moon, and my flare coincides with the full moon.
I kept a log through the first two years of this and I always was much worse during the full moon phase. It is waning now and the symptoms are too.
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Pinelady
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I always have more skin symptoms on the full moon.
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This subject has been discussed before in threads before and can be found in history. The moon control the tides on the planet as well as so many other things in nature. I don't doubt it effects our bodies or whatever might be inside of us at all.
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I vaguely remember reading about this...I think it was in "The Lyme Disease Survival Guide". It makes a lot of sense to me given natural cycles and the moon's influence on everything else.
I am completely basing this on vague memories of my reading, so don't take this as absolutely what she says, but I seem to remember her saying that all bacteria are heightened in activity during the full moon.
So, it stands to reason that lyme, as a bacteria, would also increase in activity during the full moon -- leading to more symptoms. I think she said that she increases her treatment schedule during the full moon, because she figures that more spirochetes are available (and not in cyst form) during that time.
Again, this is just based on memory, please look at the book to confirm what she says.
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I usually get mentally worse during full moons, emotional and whatnot. Eclipses are even more intense.
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