Does anyone have this symptom?

I feel like that sometimes but very rare. I feel like I have to shake it out of me but how? Lol

Although I know many people don't believe in praying, I do and I keep repeating a prayer over and over again and my mind is somewhere else in a peaceful place where everything is perfect and beautiful with no Lyme disease or co-infections lol

Hi DolphZF...I believe what you are experiencing is called "Depersonalization/Derealization" which some people with lyme & co's do experience as a symptom.

Check this out to see if you can relate: (this is actually a great lyme site overall!)

www.tiredoflyme.com/depersonalization-and-derealization-from-lyme-disease-and-its-coinfections.html#.VMhzwWjF948


It also probably has to do with depression (which is what I have experienced more so with lyme/co's). I would feel a lack of zest for living life itself and not enjoy the things that *I know* I once enjoyed. I am not a depressed person but being so ill and dealing with all this is too much for the strongest of minds. I remember times where I just felt like a zombie floating on through life and the days blurring together. The stupid lyme & co's really mess with your head man :-/ Probably the toxic body from all the die-off causes this too in combination with it all and messing with one's head.

I can say it does get better with treatment. Try to stay as positive as possible and not to sound cheesy, but HOPE is a wonderful thing! Dont give up on yourself and keep trying to imagine the healthy you living life again in the future and trust that it will happen.


{Hugs}Courtney

I am not sure about that orchid, I mean it could be, but when I first got it back in May of 2014, I had high anxiety and was scared every day to where I couldn't even look at a tv without getting freaked out and I was dizzy and it felt weird to move my body at all, I think people who experience dp really don't get any anxiety more or less they just become emotionless, I am not sure about this I'm just stating my opinion.


Thanks for your help though I appreciate it, maybe there is another type of dp/dr? Like what I experienced? Like I said I still kind of have it low grade but it is controlled now for the most part, it's just it never goes away, it is so weird lol.

When I first got it I felt at like 30 percent, this was when I had a positive mono blood test in May of last year, then when the mono went away and the test came back negative in August, it seemed to calm down gradually.


Now I am at 65-70 percent, just need to shake this feeling and figure out what it really is, when I first got it all I could think about was doom/gloom and all that, I mean I still get that from time to time but not nearly as much as I did back when this all started, such an odd thing to go through, hmph.

Dolph, you describe "brain fog" exactly how I would. I don't actually have too much issue with word connection (although i do struggle with tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon some) or concentration, but man i feel "floaty" or "spacy". I definitely get the hazy, dazed descriptors. I would describe things as "muted" as well.

Before I was even aware I could possibly have lyme, I was on vacation and went to a hot springs for an evening with friends and stayed in the hottest part for a several hours. That night I thought I was having a stroke because things were so sideways in my head. I literally couldn't even walk straight. So, went to the ER and before labs were drawn, the doc told me I was dehydrated. But it turned out I wasn't. They gave me the diagnosis of heat stroke, but the fogginess last over a month. I'm convinced it was a herx where the springs simulated a high fever in my body and caused major die-off.....unfortunately not enough. And, maybe there was a component of heat stroke. My primary doc said my body "took a hit to the mitochondrial level". No idea if that's true, but the fogginess lasted a couple months.

To this day, it is the very same feeling each time I step up antibiotics or herbals or supplements, etc. Some days are worse than others. But muted, foggy, almost out-of-body, irritated, uneasy, disconnected, floaty, and spaced out are all ways that I experience what I categorize as "brain fog".

I plan to check out that link above from orchid.

Hmm, after reviewing the link, I would not describe what I am experiencing as depersonalization or derealization entirely. I think the "fog" imitates some of the descriptions of these, but I don't find myself as emotionally detached. Much more, it is just a fog that I feel I'm fighting through.

At the end of the day, I don't guess it matters what I call it. I'm asking God to deliver me from it and fighting to get through it.

In convinced it's never gonna go away for me, this symptom makes my body feel out of sorts and floating and like I'm legit dying or something, it's scary af, my heart feels really slowed down sometimes as well.

Post Edited (Dolph ziggler fan) : 1/28/2015 10:11:37 AM (GMT-7)

I have had the cortisol test done the 24 hour one, I will post my results below, I don't know how to read these well so maybe someone can help me out with this, maybe this could be the problem? images below:



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