Debilitating anxiety is back!

My first Lyme symptom was horrific anxiety. The kind you wake up with and lasts all day long! The kind that makes you ball up and cry.

I had it under control with doxepin. Had very few episodes over the last year.

Now, since starting abx, it's back full force. I'm a constant nervous wreck. I cannot function. I am crippled by it! Xanax and clonapin don't really help much. I have to stay on the sofa all day. It usually blows over by 4:00.

When will this go away? It is ruining my life. I can deal with my other Lyme symptoms, but this is torture! Does anyone else have this?

Utahgal—
So sorry you are overwhelmed by the anxiety. That is a horrible experience. Can you do more to detox? Would help if you could get more sleep too. Does exercise help? How about a soothing bath with some lavender? Hope you can find some relief.

I don't know if I have any solutions, I'm having very similar reactions to the abx I started up again and yes, feeling like you're losing your mind is torture. I resort to trying to focus on something like watching a movie or a TV series (like binge watching—can't read books most of the time), shut everything out and avoid people as much as I can. :(

-p

I decided to drug myself. I took 1 clonapin and two hours later I took a Xanax. I slept on/off most of the day. I'm starting to turn the corner now at 2:30. But I lost half my day to a drugged out anxious state! How awful.

I never had anxiety before Lyme! I think the abx make everything so much worse. My poor husband has to pick up all the slack and do the grocery shopping, cooking, tending to the kids. I feel so guilty. But honestly I just can't do it right now. I need someone else to take the wheel.

Why does treatment make the anxiety so much worse? Detoxing does not help me! Maybe it's my MTHFR mutation causing problems, even tho I do take the supplement.

I have my LLMD appt tomorrow. I'm getting a glutathione IV tomorrow as a birthday present to myself. I hope it helps a little.

P- I feel like a nut job too. Lol. I can't read either, as I have no attention or concentration right now. I do like researching Lyme on my iPad and reading on these forums. Although I can't read books right now.

Utahgal-- I am so sorry you are going through this. It is really hell.I am glad you have your husband to pick up your slack with your kids- it is the same with me. You will get better. I don't know about 100% or whatever, but if you treat long enough you will get significantly better.
I am glad you have your appointment tomorrow- let us know what they say. Are you seeing the male doctor or still the female now?

I had debilitating anxiety too for a while and also could not read either. So happy I can read again, and now when I do have anxiety it tends to be managed by one valium ( or currently managed more by abx). I hope you can get to a better place soon. Just hang in there and think about how much better it will be for you at some point hopefully soon. So sorry you are suffering- sending you compassion.