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meloctober
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Member # 22406

posted

Has anyone else dealt with lyme related anxiety

or other neuropsychiatric symptoms of lyme like

ocd.. these have been my two main problems that

came up this past year..I am 29 years old and have never dealt with anything like this

before...now I am on antidepressants antianxiety and waiting to get in with Lyme dr... I hate

this soo much..I feel like my life changed out of nowhere... I was just prescribed 30days of

Doxy and I am scared 1. It wont work and 2. that my anxiety will be so bad or Ill go nuts from a Herx..Im so scared

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DeniseNM
LymeNet Contributor
Member # 11182

posted

hang in there. I don't have anxiety myself, but I hear it is very common with us Lymies. Hopefully more people will post. I think it will get better with treatment and time.

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dx: MS in 1998
2007 - Lyme suspected
2009 - Positive Lyme, MS worse. Now: Copaxone shots for MS
gall bladder out 7/09
Ceftin, Zith, Septra
LDN
Acyclovir
Monolaurin, DHEA, Pregnonelon, Curcumin

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TF
Frequent Contributor (5K+ posts)
Member # 14183

posted

It is likely that the doxy will help you. I doubt you will have a herx on it. I feared the herxes also, but they turned out to be nothing in my case. Many people just have very mild herxes. They really are nothing to fear.

Take anti-anxiety meds until the lyme doc gets the lyme under control. Then, you won't need them anymore. Be good to yourself.

Once a good lyme doc gets this disease under control, you will get your life back. I completed my lyme treatment 4 1/2 years ago and I am still symptom-free, enjoying my life--the same life I had before lyme disease.

I had the lyme anxiety big time. It goes away with good treatment. ALL of my problems and symptoms went away once I got to a good lyme doc. And, I had lyme undiagnosed for 10 years!

Things will get better. The doxy is your friend. As soon as I started it, it got rid of some of my symptoms, and it was wonderful.

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mixxster
LymeNet Contributor
Member # 22765

posted

I think this is more typical of a symptom of Bartonella. I had anxiety,

OCD, bipolar disorder, the works. So far, Levoquin for a month has made

my irrational anxiety completely go away. Though I'm not ruling out Lyme

induced anxiety in your case, just trying to share my experience.

You probably wouldn't be able to find bartonella in a blood test except

maybe a Fry Lab's blood smear.
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Essentially knowing my anxiety was caused by this unknown tick born

illness was a miracle, it might even say it saved my life.

The absolute best antidepressent for me was Doxy. Please don't worry too

much about herxing, I really felt great even on my first month with doxy.

But my anxiety never got much better/worse on doxy, only the moodswings

and depression got better. You will have to specifically target bart

if it is infact bart induced anxiety, which I have read for most people

it is. You may also learn down the road that even after treating bart and lyme,

a coinfection like Babesia may really hit you hard, like it has for me.

So watch out for co-infections such as bartonella and Babesiosis.
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I'm 6 months into lyme treatment, almost 2 months into Bart treatment,

neurologically I am much better, especially the anxiety. The Babesia

is causing a little depression but its so much milder than it was before

I took Doxy. My life is not full of pysch drugs any more, it feels wonderful.

No more balancing a cocktail of mind altering drugs that only were making things worse.

Goodluck and I wish you the best.

[ 10-24-2009, 11:25 AM: Message edited by: mixxster ]

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