Feel things more

Has anyone experience just feeling things more? The sense of touch.

For example I had my hand on the edge of a table and I just felt it much more where I noticed it. It didn't "hurt" but felt uncomfortable.

Or the elastic band on my boxers I really feel it where I just notice it all the time, where it should be something that the brain forgets about because it's not "uncomfortable" but my brain can't stop noticing it because if feels uncomfortable (but it really isn't).

Or there's a chair I sit in most of the time I don't feel it under my legs but then sometimes I can't stop feeling it like it's uncomfortable.

I know this sounds weird but most things we feel the brain doesn't pay attention too or it would be sensory overload. But with this you feel things as if they are uncomfortable.

I hope this makes sense to someone.

Edit:

Another example is the side of my foot. Even on the soft padding of a mattress there can be the feeling of discomfort and I have to kick my entire foot off the side of the bed.

I know super weird but what isn't with lyme.

Post Edited (dacarte3) : 9/28/2017 5:47:49 PM (GMT-6)

I have the same sensations. Feet (heels) in bed or anywhere they are resting, any clothing that fits close to body, and sitting anywhere ... especially car seats.

Well, you guys are talking about the negative side of lyme.

I agree, it makes things worse (light, sound, smells, textures of food...), we feel overwhelmed sometimes.

But there is the good side too: with lyme, and due to lyme, I could tune my perception of what was going on INSIDE my body, organs, joints, gut, liver, brain much more than before lyme.

I could feel the effect of each herb I was taking, just by taking the first gulp of a decoction or a drop of a tincture.

I let it touch the nerves of the mouth, and I got what it 'meant' to me: good or bad, helpful or not, relaxing or not etc..

That lyme sensitivity was in the end MUCH more positive than negative for me.

It also opened me to feel food, what was doing me good or bad.

And later, it opened me to feel trees and healing plants in nature.

All DUE to lyme sensitivity, I think...

The bad part of it was electrosmog... I got extremely sensitive to it.
Now I'm better, due to treatments and some tricks...

Anyway, just wanting to say it's not only bad to have heightened senses!!

I was very sensitive to touch as well; I had the restless leg syndrome thing going and I couldn't stand the feeling of sheets or blankets touching my legs. I would feel my t shirt barely touching my skin but it would feel like something more solid or heavy touching me there. The sensation was strange and the aspect of weight or mass didn't match up to what was actually touching me, if that makes sense. Basically, all sorts of weird and indescribable feelings and sensations happen when you have this miserable disease. The sensitivity to sounds, motion, and especially smells was the worst! I would get these strange highs after smelling something like carpet powder or rug shampoos, and some perfumes would absolutely make me want to throw up. All the sensory stuff just seems to get attacked and messed up

Ace said...
I was very sensitive to touch as well; I had the restless leg syndrome thing going and I couldn't stand the feeling of sheets or blankets touching my legs. I would feel my t shirt barely touching my skin but it would feel like something more solid or heavy touching me there. The sensation was strange and the aspect of weight or mass didn't match up to what was actually touching me, if that makes sense. Basically, all sorts of weird and indescribable feelings and sensations happen when you have this miserable disease. The sensitivity to sounds, motion, and especially smells was the worst! I would get these strange highs after smelling something like carpet powder or rug shampoos, and some perfumes would absolutely make me want to throw up. All the sensory stuff just seems to get attacked and messed up

Sounds like Small fibre neuropathy ?

Ace said...
I would feel my t shirt barely touching my skin but it would feel like something more solid or heavy touching me there.

YES YES, this!!

For me it's my waist and my foot.

And I know it's not "real" because it's not everyday.