Hi everyone, please take a look

Hey, i'm new here. I have a really big problem. about a year and a half ago, I had a full blown panic attack. Absolutely full blown. If you read this story, this is EXACTLY what I went through http://abchomeopathy.com/forum2.php/98621/  I have thought i've had it for the longest time. I spend time in the woods alot, i've found a tick on me..and I have had a rash that comes and goes.

I know alot of you are going to think it's just anxiety, but i'm really sure that it isn't. I have so many symptoms, I often get new ones. I have a really hard breathing problem, not the "anxiety air hunger" it could last 3 seconds but it's an extreme feeling right in my throat. I have sleep paralysis, facial twitches, really bad DR/DP. EVERYDAY is a dream to me, I feel really good when i'm at home, but when I go outside, if I look forward it's just like i'm in a dream. When I look at my parents I look at them and feel like their not my parents and I don't know who they are.

Tingling everywhere, twitches all over my body. I sleep about 14 hours a day. When my ears ring, it worsens then sounds like someone through a stun grenade and my ears sort of "flex" and I have a really bad hard time hearing.

Think of it in a video game.I also get aches in my wrist. I have horrible ocd, and depression now. I'm 15, and I need to check my closet and under my bed everynight, i'm a pretty popular kid and noone would ever expect any of this from me. I am very fatigued all day, I yawn like 5 times a minute and nap all the time. I got a standard test at my doctors, and unfortunately...it came back negative. I later then begged my parents, and doctor to let me get a test from Igenex.

The results came back, my doctor couldn't even read them so they got faxed over to the biggest hospital in my city, the screenings came out positive, and western blot came back positive. My doctor still says "I don't have lyme" She's a specialist in infectious disease, but it's like I was talking to a brick wall. She only knew all the "average" symptoms.

I can just tell that I am ill with something. It's just so frusturating that I go through hell everyday, and no one can understand. Please make sure you read the link I posted up in the begginning (http://abchomeopathy.com/forum2.php/98621/) Thank's alot everyone for reading, please reply on what you think I should do, and if anyone can relate to my symptoms. (Esp. the few second no breathe)

Post Edited By Moderator (borderlyme) : 8/30/2012 8:33:41 PM (GMT-6)

Matt,
So sorry that you are going through all this and at such a young age! My daughter, who is 16, also has Lyme and Bartonella (diagnosed through IGnenex) since 2010 - but she's probably had it longer than that. She was initially diagnosed because she had clusters of panic attacks at school one month, which was very odd. Having Lyme myself, I questioned her pediatrician about it and then had her tested.

She gets bad headaches, various pains (usually in her stomach/abdomen area), twiches, and back pain. She has been treated with abx, but didn't seem to get better so I tried the naturopath route. She takes mutiple supplements, but the one that has helped her the most is magnesium malate. Helps her with her muscle pains and the twiching, mostly. Fortunately her immune system seems pretty strong so her symptoms are not severe. Unfortunately, that also means she doesn't take her supplements religiously because she starts feeling better, so she forgets she has lyme and stops the supplements! I am constantly bothering her about that.

As far as the breathing problems, I have that myself and I was diagnosed with Lyme and Babesia. I believe that my Babesia causes most of my symptoms, like many that you have described. The feeling of being in a dream....it's like a brain fog....one of my major symptoms too. And while some symptoms are present for a few days, a week, a month, then fade away, only to replaced with new ones! It is very frustrating to live with, but know you are not alone in this fight. Many of us struggle with the same things, and find a way to get through it. I really hope you get the support you need from your family too - that makes all the difference in the world.


Sinthia

Feels good to know I'm not the only one going through hell

Matt,

I have been seeing a ND and she has put together some powdered herbs for my Lyme and whenever I have tingling or facial paralysis and take the herbs it disappears, but since I take them 2-3 times a day with Abx and. Supplements I am noticing fewer and fewer symptitoms/ flareups.