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Posted 1/30/2013 8:53 AM (GMT 0)
 

The world of lyme is doing my head in literally!

Besides being mentally and physically fatigued I cannot seem to concentrate on anything. Everything seems as though its a huge task. Even the smallest things. From what i have read, it seems the toxins released by the bacteria, somewhat inhibit the neuro receptors in our brain.....?? I have no clarity, concentration and find myself in a zombie like state slurring words which are even hard to find causing me to freak out and give myself panic attacks! Does anyone else have this and extreme like myself? Is the damage done from the toxins in our brain a permanent thing?

Posted 1/30/2013 9:12 AM (GMT 0)

Hi LymeJoel,

It's indeed caused by the toxins...
I asked my Dr what damage could be permanent, but he couldn't give me an answer on that sad I'll just have to wait and see...

There's days I speak thickly, like being drunk. Other days I just can't find my words, say other words than I meant to say, can't speak foreign languages fluently like I normally do. I've had days I don't drive my car, cause it happened that I suddenly (for a very brief moment) don't know how to change gears while driving. Some days I just can't remember the names of my friends, let alone names from somewhere in the past. A few hours after watching a movie, I just can not remember what it was about... Reading a book can be difficult or impossible, the lines would 'dance' on the pages. I felt my intellectual capacities going down over the years (like I was getting dumb and dumber), was afraid to tell this to doctors (or anyone else), thought they would certainly add 'crazy' to my file, but now I know what I was feeling is true.

I try not to focuss too much on it - it is the way it is when I'm having those days. Sometimes I can see people looking oddly, but I don't care about that smilewinkgrin

I felt though, when doing the B12 injections, and when forcing up detoxing, I'm having 'clearer' days (I started the famous coffee enema's last week, and everytime I get out of the bathroom, my head feels light and 'flexible').

Posted 1/30/2013 9:23 AM (GMT 0)
MarieLS,

Many thanks for your response.
Yes, driving, what a disaster waiting to happen!!! As you said you feel as though you are "getting dumb and dumber", I too feel the same. I just really hope at the end of all this I/we are not stuck with permanent damage...

I'll have to read into the coffee enema's (even if it makes the clarity come back)

All the best with your journey!
Posted 1/30/2013 11:09 AM (GMT 0)
Maybe healed or almost-healed members can tell you (us) if they got smarter and smarter again??

Good luck with your journey too!!
Posted 1/30/2013 11:19 AM (GMT 0)
I constantly have to switch between English and German,sometimes bad French comes out of my mouth,totally unintended.

It's crazy,I have also been known to start a sentence in one language and finish it in another.

BUT, it is getting better,as I slowly but steadily improve.
Posted 1/30/2013 11:33 AM (GMT 0)

That's good to hear Tickledpink (cause it's getting worse lately)!!! Thank you!

You made me laugh: I'm Dutch speaking, my husband is French speaking, at work I speak mostly French and English - I make a French sentence, put an English or Dutch word in it, especially at the end, totally unintended too. Or I'll be digging in my memory to find the easiest word in English or French..

I can sometimes see my husband looking at me and thinking 'what the hell is she trying to say?'

It definetly gets worse while herxing...

Posted 1/30/2013 11:41 AM (GMT 0)
Just imagine the stares we would get if you and I tried to have a conversation in front of strangers.

4 languages going on at the same time! THE MIND BOGGLES !!!!!!!!!!!
Posted 1/30/2013 6:16 PM (GMT 0)
Does anyone take amphetamines?

I don't see anyone really writing anything about them and I am wondering if people just don't. I tried many different kinds, where I have finally found relief with Vyvansse. My daughter was originally put on it to help her with narcolepsy syndrome and to help her in school with concentration while dealing with the lyme. The first feew days I felt it, but now, I have no side effects and do much better.

I still feel a brain fog sometimes, but yet I am able to function mentally much better. Sometimes, I am not even aware of the fact that I am doing 2 things at once because I am confused, but yet the 2 things get finished really well. Not to mention. I can stay awake during the day.

It helps me. Only downfall is that I dont take it on the weekends so that I dont have to keep increasing my dose to maintain effectiveness. I just know that important things need to be left to the week..
Posted 1/30/2013 9:59 PM (GMT 0)
(Thickledpink: maybe we can form a comic duo, get some money out of it to get some super expensive (efficient) treatment!)
Posted 1/30/2013 10:06 PM (GMT 0)
OK;you're in Belgium, I'm in central Germany,let's meet in Aachen!!!!LOL
Posted 1/30/2013 11:10 PM (GMT 0)
One thing with amphetamines - they push the adrenals, so please be careful with them!! I often wish I could use them, but because my adrenals keep trying to crash, I have to avoid them and many other stimulants.

I have come back cognitively quite a bit. I'm sure it's like everything else though, each person will be different.

I was to the point where I couldn't follow written or oral directions (of any type, not just driving), I couldn't follow patterns (couldn't put together shish-ka-bobs), when someone spoke to me, it literally sounded like someone was talking in a language I've never heard before if they didn't speak quite slowly and enunciate each word well.There was no way for me to follow a book's story line, or even a movie's story line. Without spell check, no one could have figure out what I was typing, not even me when I would go back and try to read it! I'm sure there's more, but I'm getting tired again eyes and that's when I start having those cognitive issues creep back in again.

I dealt with some pretty serious paranoia, Lyme rage (or was it from the Bart infection?), and I got lost everywhere I went, even though I had been there countless times over the last 10 years.

I do pretty well I think, I'm about 65 - 70% better now, although I may never be back to where my peers are, but that's okay because I'm here and I'm back enough to participate in life!! turn
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