Full moon on the way!! For those that don't know about this, please read!!

My broom is already jumping up and down in its corner

I haven't noticed a connection before...but today I'm feeling like something is 'brewing'.


woke up with shivers - and haven't had them for over a week now (mino seemed to get rid of them)

This is just Great, we have crazy bacteria invasions of our body and then they howl at the moon to cause more misery!

Thank you for letting us know!

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ok I have no idea, but I'm feeling flu-like today, cold chilly starting late morning afternoon, body feeling off. I may have caught something, or it could be a herx as I am building up meds (but I've been doing well overall so it's a bit surprising to feel like this and this isn't my usually herx pattern), it could be the moon, or all of the above. Likeliest is that I caught a little bug.

Bump! :)

I have never heard the full moon impact in relation to lyme but parasites are very much implicated. Of course, parasites are a problem for people with lyme.

Microscopic and other parasites start to make their way to the digestive track to mate during this phase. They are more active before and after the full moon and during that phase people have the best success in treating them.

Also if you find you vibrate more during that phase treat for parasites.

Dr. Klinghardt and his naturopathic doctors claim everyone has parasites, but most people have them in control

I wonder if it is the same action as weather. I can tell days in advance when weather is coming. I"m better than the local weatherman and he is considered an expert. He has developed state of the art weather modeling software.

The interesting thing is that last summer I was following up the Mast Cell Activation Disorder idea (over active systemic allergic reactions) and I mentioned my problems with weather and strong smells. He said "Oh, smells and weather bother you. I can give you a nasal spray for that." The name of it is Azelastine HCL.

His theory is that there is a major nerve that goes from the nostrils up through the sinuses and it gets aggravated by weather (pressure changes) and strong smells. Perfume is a killer. So you have to use it twice a day every day and it takes about 4 weeks for it begins working. It's something you have to just use everyday, but it was worth it. I've had to leave movies and plays because someone near me was wearing too much perfume. It's also a problem because we live on the path of just about every hurricane that hits the east coast, so 4 months out of the year it sucks.

I never paid attention to the phases of the moon but it makes sense.

Sometimes I've felt worse during the full moon and sometimes I notice nothing...or just the same as usual.

sweetpeaisme said...
Personally, I think it's connected to the female 'moon cycle', aka Menses. Our hormonal system is greatly effected by Lyme and Co' s!!!!

With that said, Im Not sure how the full moon effects the dudes with Lyme

I'm a guy, and in looking back thru my notes and progress history, I see a definite worsening within 2 days of a full moon, until just after ..

I was not aware of this until I tracked it in my notes ... So it definitely was not the power of suggestion

On a side note - and I swear this is true - I got home today from a really tough laser treatment at about 5pm, and my neighbors - a couple who has been married since Jan - were arguing - LOUD

I kid you not, that arguing lasted until after 10pm

Bark at the moon

doing better today, and 2 hours after my morning dose of meds I get a massive deep stabbing knife pain in my left lymph node behind my ear. This is pretty unusual kind of pain reminiscent of the early years of my illness. I'm honestly thinking meds are hitting deeper with this full moon cycle (especially since this is the first full moon cycle I've been on these meds). Hard to say for certain but I'm really glad you mentioned the full moon cycles and their connection to lyme Traveler.

I'm starting a symptom health journal so I can better track what is what and see if there are any patterns. I'm a little surprised at the acuity of yesterday and today's herx, especially given how much stronger I feel overall. But I feel quite optimistic, regardless of how much further I have to go I feel I'm getting closer and closer. I'm hoping these herxes are indicative that I'm hitting this sucker square in the jaw :)

trumpet123, Yep. It takes about a month to see a difference, but after that it worked really well. Before using it my sinuses would bother and I practically lived on sudafed.

With the spray, the sinus problem went away.Both my husband and I noticed that weather didn't seem to be an issue any longer. The real test though was my 23 yr old daughter. Everything she uses - shampoo, soap, creams, lotions, and perfume - have very strong smells. I could tell she was coming into my bedroom when she was 10 ft away. She doesn't believe that the proper way to wear perfume is just enough so the smell carries only a few inches.

There were times when she was allowed to enter my bedroom if she was wearing anything with a scent. Actually, my 15 year old son has me smell test his body wash, deoderant, etc in the grocery store. At times I could even kiss my daughter good bye.

With the nasal spray, the smells were no longer an issue. I could smell them, but I no longer felt like throwing up everytime someone came near me with perfume on.

Now life has been difficult for the last three months and I haven't been using my spray and the sinus headaches are definitely back. Thank heaven someone started this thread. I've started back on it, but it will take time.

To all: There is a Chronic Pain tracker app on iTunes which is pretty good. I like it because you select what you want to track. It has a pretty big selection of things like weather, pain level, diet, notes you can setup different groupings and when you want to make an entry you pick which group, then enter what you need to. If you include weather it automatically fetches the weather stuff from weather underground. For me it was great, because it included the barometric pressure.

You can run reports and it can point out symptoms/causes that you didn't see before. The draw back is they own your data. If you just want the weather data yourself, Weather Underground has it's own app.