Return of anxiety at night - your ideas

Girlie you sound a lot like myself....what is  pulsatile tinnitus?

Hi Girlie...it could definitely be that you are herxing from the CBD oil. I would stop for a day or two and see if the symptoms go away.

Holy basil helped some with anxiety...i am looking at babs to as i have very low iron ..and wasting around hands and feet.....bart is nasty too

Girlie,

I'm not expert but have been dealing with similar symptoms myself. I wake up in the night feeling like I'm going to die, really dark negative thoughts. Mind is racing, spinning, almost perseverating on whatever thoughts come to mind or issues that are going on. I've also had horrible night sweats, drenching at times. As for the night sweats, I feel like 2 things made a difference of rme: I treated for babesia for about 8 months, and I started on a low dose birth control pill (I just turned 49 so some of this might be perimenopausal).

As for the anxiety/dark thoughts, from what I read that can definitely be a sign of Bart (can cause a variety of psych stuff), so it might be a sign of herxing, but also it can be a sign of toxin buildup in the brain (like your brain is being poisoned by ammonia and other toxins). I started taking Jernigan's neuro-antitox II plus molybdenum, and that has really seemed to make a difference. I also use Cowden pinella/burbur/and mapalo to pull out toxins. I tried to increase my detox too and taking alka seltzer gold plus a packet of Vit C plus lemon. also I've gotten into essential oils and those have really helped me with various symptoms at times. I also agree with PP, if you start to feel worse in any way you might want to take a break from treatment for a day or 2 to allow your system to "catch up" and flush out the bad stuff. I have always taken Sundays off from treatment, my LLMD recommended that and that always felt like a good idea to me.

Are you on any medications for anxiety? I take citalopram and it has completley erased most of my anxiety and I am on a small dose 10mg a day. But I can appreciate if you want to stick with a natural root since you are already on other meds...something to think about if it gets bad.

Ive heard Valerian root can be helpful with anxiety.

You would think cbd would help because it is the more calming component in marijuana but Im sure it can affect everyone differently.

Girlie said...
So prior to treatment, one of my symptoms was anxiety...
Even before treatment started, the daytime anxiety had mostly subsided, but was left with several wake-ups during the night - anxiety/sweating...every couple of hours.

As I treated - lyme first, then bartonella, these were reduced to one wake-up with a little bit of anxiety...and slightly sweating.

Last night I woke up three times in the night...with anxiety and pulsatile tinnitus (which has been a symptom...that was about 80-90% better since treatment) - and sweating (not drenching, just a bit)

what is the cause?
1) I am pulsing my bart antibiotics - am I backsliding? (Although prior to the pulsing, I was off the antibiotics for about three weeks - and these symptoms didn't come back)
2) Is Babesia coming to the forefront?
3) Is it a side effect of the CBD oil that I started just over a week ago?
4) Is it a bart herx from the CBD oil.
5) Is it a bart herx because I also recently added back in the JK?

I DID add one thing back in at a time...but sometimes things take several weeks before causing herxes...so how to know?

Is the parotid saliva gland next to your jaw and below your ear swollen at all? Or was one of them ever swollen or bigger than the other in the past? I can relate with those awful night time anxiety awakenings and constant wet pillow.

Did you ever feel around on the gland just below the ears? One of mine was enlarged versus the other. I also had a lot of the other symptoms you have such as night time anxiety awakening and sweating. I always related those symptoms to bartonella.

I remember 10 years ago everyone thought the night sweats were babesia only or maybe lyme. But bartonella infects the red blood cells as you know not just babesia. I noticed how my night sweats would go away after a few weeks on bart specific antibiotics like doxycycline, minocycline, azithromycin, clarithromycin, rifampin etc. My sweats always came back when i took antibiotics like ceftin, omnicef, cephalexin, amoxicilin and penicillin vk.

I had lymph node swelling in my armpits when I was at my worst.