Lyme and diabetes

MY CURRENT STATE DESCRIBED THE BEST I COULD:

I have never felt so horrible in my entire life, there is nothing like it, the symptoms are like an objective thing but really feel like a part of me and ago****ng most of the time. I don't feel like the same person, is difficult to even put the feelings or sypthoms into words almost like I would try to describe an emotion, feeling totaly out of it, headeach, brain pressure, dizzy, drunk like or drugged (this one is the worst), sound sensitive, light sensitive, brain fog, memory problems, lack of vitality and energy, food feels like alcoohol and sleeping pills, complete stress and anxiety that can trend to overweling pannic and sinking feelings, it feels like like half of my brain is totally missing, not even human conscience should feel like it should. Detached, unreal, sereal, with a symphony of ringging and woosing in my ears, emotions on total roller coster from the darkest depression to sinking, mood swings. Hours long, anxiety attacks to anger and rage, things look different, is hard to say what is off, depth, color, dimention, brigthness. Static over everything, sometimes feeling like I will lose my mind.I believe that at this point I am half insane and I have suicidal tendencies.

I was diagnosed with chronic lyme and bartonella based on IIF and DFM test, by Dr. Bela P. Bozsik, a well know lyme specialist from Hungary and I will start treatment soon.

I want to share my story for other to read because is an insane story and also ask any help and adices.

BRIEF STORRY HOW MY ILLNESS STARTED:

Before I started to feel ill I was a person full of life, I was going to gym 4-5 times a week and tried to have a healthy diet, I owed a I.T. small company and I was one of the senior developer and one of the best, working with clients all over the world, my life was more then perfect.

in June 2014 when I was at a picknick with my wife and little girl I developed a wired rash on my entire body with the exception of the face and fever (not the bulles eye rash), I had symptoms similar to a flu, that lasted about four days after which the rash disappeared but my feet started to itch really bad like something was crawling under my skin (I remember that during those days that I searched for parasites on the web because of the crawling sensation I thought that something is actually crawling under my skin and now I know that is what happened) this lasted about three days then I was fine... In the next two months I noticed that I could not concentrate at work, took frequent breaks and it was impossible to write code and any more. At gym I had energy but something felt wrong.

Then something really wired happened, I started to have serious cognitive issues, could not work at al, I was always in a drunk / drugged state. I remember that I was working on a really difficult project and I was so excided to do it and then I realised that something is not as it should, I was not e anymore. I started to constantly feel drunk (it feels as I had a glass of wine), extremely tired and fatigued. After meals the drunk feeling was so severe that I had to lye down in bed and also I had terrible hart palpitation with increased pulse and lower blood pressure.

From October 2014 until February 2015 I was hospitalised multiple times in different hospitals, I had and still have diabetic sympoms but all they could find was prediabetes which again is wired (prediabetes comes over time not in two months) and of course depression even tough I've told the doctors more then one time that I had no reason for depression, they didn't believe any of my symptoms and said that they are in my head or that I am scared because I know how serious diabetes can be... even if I had signs of diabetes (high collesterol, high triglicerides, faild the glucose test at border line diabetes) they said probably is from stress...

Currently I have high blood sugar after meals and recently I had episodes of blood sugar over 200 mg/dl and I use a lot of natural herbs to lower my blood sugar. I was put on metformin that had absolutely no effect it actually made things worse because I was with diarreha and blood sugar was the same. Also put on antidepressive twice without any result they even made things worse, all my symptoms worsen, specially the headeach.

It is pointless to say that I was humiliated by all doctors that I've seen because they would not believe my symptoms, all off them thought that I am depressed or even worse...

During this time my immune system was going down, currently my leucocites number is under the normal range, the doctors could not explain why, made a clostridium infection because of some antibiotics that thay geve me for a prostate infection... and at the current time I am feel like I a ready to die or worse lose my mind.

SYMPTOMS THAT I HAVE NOW:

Constant fatigue, lack of energy, dizzines, brain fog, headache and brain pressure changing in intensity specially after meals, ocasional and more frequent pin pricks pain in my brain or scalp (difficult to explain the sensation), I feel disconnected from reality is like I am in a dream, also sometimes I have the feeling that something is crawling under the skin of my scalp.

The worst sympthom is a constant state of drunk/drugged feeling that intensify after meals, the more carbs I eat the worse, also after meals I get extremely tired and sleepy.I am at a a point that I am afraid to eat, I feel closer to normality if I am starving myself.

Short term and long term memory issues, cognitive problems, difficulty to access thoughts and impossibility to multitask, I can't do simple things any more, everything is difficult.

The above symptoms are really hard to explain and makes life impossible, they prevent me to function as a normal human being or better said makes me a walking, talking plant since I can't take care of myself any more. How can I go and say to a doctor that I am drunk like all the time and after meals is 10 times worse, this sound so stupid and I am aware of it but this is exactlly what happenes and is not something that I make to myself.

The simplest things are confusing and overwhelm me, for example a simple conversation makes me so dizzy, drunk, confused and tired that I have to lie down in bed. If I go in a mall or a place with multiple sounds my senses are overwhelmed and I feel lost, dizzy and super confused. I can't even play with my little girl beacause she makes a lot of noice which is driving me crazy, this breaks my hart and ruing what's left of my soul.

Sensitive to noise and sound, three tinitus (ringing in ears), two in my left ear and one in my right ear, when I move my eyes one tinitus is changing frequency and when I am really tired and this happens a lot without much of an effort and I move my eyes I can actually feel the nerves impuls in my brain and one of the tinitus is changing frequency.

Sensitive to light, vision with noise, snow and flashy spots, everything looks distorted, occasional blurry vision with my left eye, after images (I look at an object then look away only to have the outline of the object has followed). Is a nightmare to go out when during the day, everything seam distorted and unrealistic.

Knees and hips pain that comes and goes (I never had knees and hips pain before this).

Green stool.

When I manage to exercice instead of feeling good and oxigenated I feel more confused and most of the time I get extreme headeache.

Frequent urination, pale skin (not noticable now because I cathed some sun), sweet taste in mouth.

CONCLUSION:

I have developed depression and I believe depersonalization because there are eight months now since I feel like this and things are getting worse. All I can do is to stare at the walls all day long, lost my bussiness, lost normality, lost all contact with reality, when I think at my old life I get panic attacks and anxiety (this is not me I was a really strong man with my feet planted in life), basically I am someone else and is not becasause I want to, my brain doesn't function anymore, I am trying really hard to keep what's left of my sanity and I am convinced that I will die, actually at the state that I am now this will be a bleassing for me and my familly.

I want to ask if anybody with lyme had problems with food or blood sugar issues and if there is something that I can do.

How the heck I developed diabetes in 5 months considering that I was doing so much exercise every day, had a healty diet, this is impossible...

Is there a clinic in Europe that can actually help me and if so can anybody suggest one.

I don't know almost anything about diabetes but dr. Klinghardt says in one of his videos that after he successfully treats his patients for Lyme and co-infections, the diabetes resolves. So concentrate to get rid of the cause, and everything else will resolve as well if your diabetes was caused by lyme.

I am from Romania. I am seeing now another doctor, more tests will be done regarding my state, he said that he thinks that is something related to diabetes... I really hope I will find a solution because I am almost dead.

Any advice is appreciated.

Thank you.

It's believed that Lyme depletes chromium, and chromium is needed for blood sugar control. That's why for some, treating Lyme can heal diabetes.

The more specific questions you ask, the more help we can give!!

tibi_hd, I saw your topic and thought I'd respond. I do not know about Lyme, so I can only comment about diabetes. This is about metabolism, particularly how the body metabolizes carbohydrates. If the pancreas is not working correctly and having a problem producing insulin, your blood sugar will be high. This happens with type 1 and sometimes in type 2 after some years. Or - if your body is not using the insulin correctly, then you are "insulin resistant". In any case, when the blood sugar is high or even just elevated, the doctor will usually tell you that you have diabetes.

The best way you can help yourself control this is by not eating a lot of carbs like potatoes, bread (or anything made with flour) or rice. You can get control of this especially in the early stages with a very low-carbohydrate diet. If you eat a good variety of vegetables, proteins and some fruit, you do not need any potatoes or bread products for complete nutrition.

I hope you are doing better but don't let diabetes/blood sugar problems control your life as you are dealing with Lyme.

Hi tibi_hd

All very good responses here already. If you can compartmentalize information, that will help, because you have multiple issues affecting you.

Issue 1
You likely have more than just the lyme infection as most ticks carry multiple microbes, bacterial, viral and fungal infections. Some LLMDs fail to look for everything and some patients just can't afford to test for everything. But most of the time we will have dominant infection(s) that create dominant symptoms and those are the ones that need focus now.

Issue 2
I also have to echo Lanie's post… I am also having blood sugar problems (mine is usually too low) but I don't have the markers for diabetes, only some warning signs. Regardless of a diabetes diagnoses, for multiple serious reasons you absolutely must implement a no sugar, low simple carb, high complex carb and high fiber and protein diet so that you can regulate your blood sugar AND prevent feeding the lyme w/ sugars. No processed food, either. Look into paleo diet and then experiment with which foods make you feel better/worse because we all react differently to foods. It would be very beneficial to you if you find a good nutritionist.

Lyme likes sugar and the surges can create a feeding frenzy. Also, blood sugar imbalances can affect hormone production and neurotransmitter imbalances, which are already at risk because of the infection. Your hypothalamus, pituitary and adrenal glands (HPA axis) work in sync w/ your digestive tract and neurotransmitters to control MUCH of your body functions, including your psychological and cognitive functions. Everything wants to be in balance, particularly if you are in a complicated treatment like lyme, which affects nearly every function in your body.

You can easily test for these imbalances with specific saliva tests. Regular MDs aren't proficient but naturpath NDs are and there are many posters here who can also help guide you.

Issue 3
Many of your symptoms seem like yeast/fungal overload. You mention you have been on antibiotics before. Some people cannot tolerate abx w/out anti fungal support. Abx kills ALL the bacteria in your gut but proper and healthy functioning in your gastrointestinal tract relies heavily on good bacteria, which you've killed. So it's important to replace it with really good, multistrain probiotics (minimum of 200billion per day or more).

Also, the absence of good bacteria allow yeast/fungal overgrowth, which causes several problems:

y/f creates neurotoxins that give you the brain fog, wooziness, disconnectedness, moodiness, depression, muscle ache, and can cause reactions in your skin and the yeast can start to grow out of your body, which will itch and make your skin raw, overly sensitive);

y/f also starts to burrow into your intestines by growing roots through the mucosal lining and literally, poking holes. Fecal matter leak out into your blood stream, which agitates your immune system and causes it to produce antibodies to everything you eat resulting in food allergies and sensitivities. Damage to your mucosal lining also inhibits your immune system (70% of your immune system IS your intestinal tract), making you sicker and preventing you from properly absorbing nutrients and medication. It is a mess you want to avoid at all costs.

Issue 4
A successful detox protocol is AS important as treatment itself. You have to ensure the debris and toxins from what you're killing off also leaves your body. MANY people have trouble doing this effectively because they are so sick or sometimes they have DNA mutations that disrupt this process, which go unnoticed until they get sick. Most MDs have no idea what to even look for.

Exercise is one good way to detox, but for lymees, you are raising your body temp, which the lyme infection does not like and it will be agitated causing a peak in symptoms. You are also doing a good thing in releasing toxins that you want your sweat glands to excrete and "release' through your skin as sweat. But if you don't have good detox mechanisms, this won't happen properly and you are adding more water to a clogged sink, overloading your system, increasing symptoms even more. Traveler mentioned the "New to Lyme?" thread, which has good detox info.

So, hopefully, these responses will help you fill in the picture a little bit and help you focus more on why things are happening. One of the best things you can do is fill out Burrascano's symptom questionnaire, which will help your LLMD get a good summary of your symptoms and help you clarify what you're experiencing.

And let us know if you have more questions and let us know how things are progressing.

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Anitas said...
Tibi_hd. Any success with treatment ??

Anitas - Tibi_hd hasn't been on the forum for a couple of years..

Ok so I found out that hypercoagulation can cause diabetes so I suggest you look into it and try acv and serrapeptase or Lumbrokinase for the fibrin caused by Lyme and Bart. I am on forth day of Lumbrokinase my doc wanted me on heparin and I refused so he agreed on Lumbrokinase and I do monthly blood test for antiplasmin 2. So goodluck maybe it can help you I am feeling wonderful today so far finger crossed.