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I got diagnosed with lyme by using the western blot and having IGB positive titer back at the end of sept. The LLD thinks I have had it for a while and it was dormant until I had my son and the changed in hormones brouht it out. I was on antibiotics for a few months amoxicillian for 3 months and have to admit did not take my full 1500 mg dosage everyday but I was feeling good symtom free so I tapered off the meds. Then I got the eye twitching and same joint pains and a new symptom of right hand being numb. First I thought I slept on it wrong but days/weeks past and it still remained. Gave the LLD an update and he said continue taking the meds. I have been back on the full dose amox since the first of Feb, my hand numbness then spread to my other hand and feet. I haven't slept in over a month it just kept me up. Then the numbness went away pretty much completely however now I have the worst symptom - I am getting these horrible what I think may be anxiety attacks. I feel this unbelievable overwhelming nervous sensation which is ongoing during the day but gets unbearable right around dinner time to bedtime. Then can't sleep. I have never had anxiety or depression ever, I am getting so worried that I am going crazy. I have tried to talk to my husband but the feeling is so hard to explain. I don't know if this is part of the amox as a side effect, possible herx effect, just part of the lyme or am I really going crazy and will never be the same. MY LLD does not answer the phone line he makes you fax an update and then his nurse calls back. I will try faxing him but I feel like everyday it is something new and they jsut say, this sounds normal continue on the meds. I am so scared-these feelings/anxiety have been ongoing for about a week now but feels like years. I have a 1 and 2 yr old and I am worriedI will never be the same mother to them again. Has anyone else had these psychological symptoms with lyme.
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I got diagnosed with lyme by using the western blot and having IGB positive titer back at the end of sept. The LLD thinks I have had it for a while and it was dormant until I had my son and the changed in hormones brouht it out.
I was on antibiotics for a few months amoxicillian for 3 months and have to admit did not take my full 1500 mg dosage everyday but I was feeling good symtom free so I tapered off the meds.
Then I got the eye twitching and same joint pains and a new symptom of right hand being numb. First I thought I slept on it wrong but days/weeks past and it still remained.
Gave the LLD an update and he said continue taking the meds. I have been back on the full dose amox since the first of Feb, my hand numbness then spread to my other hand and feet. I haven't slept in over a month it just kept me up.
Then the numbness went away pretty much completely however now I have the worst symptom - I am getting these horrible what I think may be anxiety attacks. I feel this unbelievable overwhelming nervous sensation which is ongoing during the day but gets unbearable right around dinner time to bedtime. Then can't sleep.
I have never had anxiety or depression ever, I am getting so worried that I am going crazy. I have tried to talk to my husband but the feeling is so hard to explain. I don't know if this is part of the amox as a side effect, possible herx effect, just part of the lyme or am I really going crazy and will never be the same.
MY LLD does not answer the phone line he makes you fax an update and then his nurse calls back. I will try faxing him but I feel like everyday it is something new and they jsut say, this sounds normal continue on the meds.
I am so scared-these feelings/anxiety have been ongoing for about a week now but feels like years. I have a 1 and 2 yr old and I am worriedI will never be the same mother to them again. Has anyone else had these psychological symptoms with lyme.
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