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Posted 6/28/2012 9:20 PM (GMT 0)
I woke up out of a sound sleep feeling an irregular heartbeat and nausea. When I sat up, I felt drunk and woozy (no, I wasn't drinking, lol. I took my blood pressure and it was 176/125.

I decided to just try and wait it out, instead of going to the ER. It took about an hour for the feeling of doom to go away and my blood pressure to return to normal.

Right now, I'm feeling wiped out. I was actually having a pretty good week, but after that incident, I feel like my body is on "high alert" if that makes sense.

Do any of you get this? I'm so afraid that it will happen again :(
Posted 6/29/2012 3:24 AM (GMT 0)
Unfair as it seems, anything that can happen to us during the day can happen while we're sleeping, too! I've gotten random panic attacks in the middle of the night, maybe that's what you were experiencing? With lyme/co- infections, bodily-inuced panic attacks seem pretty common (as opposed to anxious thoughts triggering the physical sensations). Is there anything you can connect it to - any changes in medication or anything? Withdrawal from anything (I ended up getting sleep paralysis every time I'd skip an ambien, and had similar symptoms, which is why I ask).

If it's any consolation, I've never had horrible symptoms wake me up 2 nights in a row, so hopefully it was just a fluke? Make sure to keep notes on this though in case you need to talk to your doctor about it!
Posted 6/29/2012 4:47 AM (GMT 0)
That sounds too familiar. I get those panic- attack like symptoms in my sleep when I'm anxious about something I have to do the next day. Was that the case with you? If not, lyme just causes a lot of weird unexplainable things. Tell your LLMD about it and see what he/she has to say about it.
Hope you have a good rest of the week :)
Posted 6/29/2012 5:36 PM (GMT 0)
The only thing I can think of is that I was feeling nauseous during the day, and then woke up in the middle of the night with nausea, arrhythmia, and the sense of doom. Then, when my blood pressure was 176/125, I definitely got worried.
Posted 6/29/2012 5:41 PM (GMT 0)
Ditto on the random panic attacks - night, day, etc. - and they wear me out for a while after they happen. I've been tying it to Lyme...are you currently treating? The high blood pressure should be checked anyway, right? Hang in there!
Posted 6/29/2012 6:15 PM (GMT 0)
Had three or four of these early on...none since I started treatment with my LLMD. Three times in the middle of the night and once after a walk up a very steep hill. Went to ER for the last one. This was before I was dbx with Lyme.
Posted 6/30/2012 11:08 PM (GMT 0)
Definitely sounds like the Lyme. I've never had panic attacks in my life, but once the severe Lyme symptoms started & got worse, the same thing would happen. I would have tightness in my chest, nausea, breathing issues, and often afer waking up. I spoke to someone who's daughter had Lyme, and she said it was absolutely the Lyme because her daughter had the same. I don't have those now that I'm being treated - they went away immediately.
Posted 7/1/2012 12:59 AM (GMT 0)
It also could possibly be sleep apnea. And, if it was, and you went quite a bit without breathing, that would also explain all those symptoms.

And, apparently, just like Lyme can cause just about everything else, it can also cause sleep apnea.
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