Can anyone relate to this?

Everyday I wake up as soon as I wake up my thoughts are racing or I have a song stuck in my head that I repeat over and over again. It's like I can't get my mind to quiet down and relax. It doesn't cause anxiety or anything but in my head I'm literally like SHUTTT UUP I don't even like that song. I wonder if it's some type of deficiency that I have that won't allow my mind to quiet down. Even if I wake up in the middle of the night it immediately starts until I fall asleep again.

Hmm. It's never accompanied by a headache. And I don't feel over stimulated because I can fall right back to sleep if needed

I'm taking a lot of neuroscience products for the past two months such as travacor, balanced d, mentalast, and calm cp

Yes doctor prescribed the test. Getting another one in September

I have that - only I usually can't shut up my brain to get back to sleep. It's just part of my insomnia issues which for me anyway is most likely due to food allergies. I'm going through an elimination diet and testing of foods now though.

All of my neurotransmitters are at extreme levels too high or low. It's frustrating—I'm CONSTANTLY edgy, agitated, lyme rage sneaks in often. Makes you feel like a crazy person. My brain races and races—I would be up all night—sleeping 1-2 hrs a night for weeks on end, which is enough to make you clinically psychotic (and sick).

I think the high doses of fish oil I'm taking have helped but I'm also taking "Soothe and Relax". I had been on several different supplements (Avipaxin, Travacor, Balance D, TheaNAQ (Calm G), Kavinace, Norlox…) over the years but my levels kept swinging back and forth and could never get them stabilized so after recent tests showed levels were still bad I asked ND if we could take a different approach (I just can't take anything more—already on 30+ different meds/supps).

Sleeping better most of the time—still have episodes on a 4-5 day cycle. I used to wake up around 2-3am WIDE AWAKE in a near panic—as if I had never fallen asleep. And most of the time I couldn't fall back to sleep. Better now—I still wake up but I do some deep breathing, meditation, I think about why I'm waking up and why mind is racing (no, there is nothing urgent it is my brain misfiring so there is nothing to "think" about) and it's getting easier to go back to sleep.

NOT FUN.

-p

Pirouette, read your last post on the thread, and you're describing me to a "T." Hyper. I hate it.

btw, do you eat chocolate? Chocolate makes it much worse in me.

Herxing also exacerbates the symptoms.

I have been up almost all night several times. When I hear the birds sing at dawn, I get really mad at myself, and feel kind of hopeless.

Pirouette and TBrown, I'm so glad you described your symptoms, not for your sakes obv., just to know there's someone else out there . . . and that I'm not completely nuts.

Sometimes I really do dislike myself.

Even if I blow all my money this Fall, I'm glad I'm seeing my LLMD along with some LLNDs.

Margaret