Totally wiped out

Generally, my energy has been pretty bad recently....but after my first 3 days on artemisia, it's just gotten worse. I don't even know how to describe it. Sometimes I don't have the energy to focus my eyes...and it's an effort to bring things back into focus.

But I can't make myself go to bed earlier. I get tired around 9, but there's this strange combo of dead tired and awake. Like I don't have energy for the monumental task of getting ready for bed.

Is this typical of artemisia or babesia?

I'm just on 1 capsule with dinner now. On my last day of the first cycle with it.

I started new adrenal support, and I think maybe it's helping. But this fatigue is different. Now I'm like a dead zoned out zombie. With the adrenal stuff, I had to take naps to get through the day.

I guess it's now time to summon the strength to brush my teeth and go to sleep.

It sounds like a Babs herx from the Artemisia. Babesia causes me severe exhaustion and fatigue. Artemisia can cause an exhaustion herx in some. It should get better.

For me, Artemisinin has been the only med that has helped with my severe exhaustion.

I hope that it passes soon for you.

Sounds like a herx and adrenals.

I also got this symptom from hypothyroidism.

Margaret

Can you hire out the work for awhile?

Because I think you should REST !

That is exactly what the adrenal fatigue is like for me, it's not just that the brain does not slow down or have a "peaceful" gear, and the sleep disruptions, it's that it is exhaustive to stand long enough to make a meal or brush my teeth. I'll forego a meal if it means I have to get up or exert one limb. I've worn the same clothes for days in a row because I simply do not have the strength to change or shower.

It is so great that you have a LLND… I think they are the key to healing even moreso than LLMDs, given their training. I'm becoming more and more convinced that there is more to look at than T3, T4 and RT3 and RT4… but have nothing to back that up, just a hunch that some dysfunction is still being missed. Hopefully time will reveal more info.

I know that you have some realities—your animals are dependent upon you and you can't blink your sister away. In my case, I worked an 80-100 hr a wk job that required me to travel every week, sometimes all week, all through the economic crash and "there was no one else" and "I just had to make it through this deadline, or that project and then I could seek alternatives" and "just one more trip and then I'd tell my firm I wasn't going to travel anymore".

But in retrospect, nothing ever really changed because it was my reality. That was the job. It was the environment I had stepped into and there was nothing I could do to change those outside forces other than to step completely out, which did not seem like an option to me. I was 100% self supported, had no one else around to pay my bills and had no other career to fall back on than the one I'd built up—and was very successful at—for the past 20 yrs. Nor did I have any clue how sick I really was.

I had one complete breakdown in '06 that wiped me out. I literally slept for over a month… my friends thought I was dead. It took me a year to recover then I got right back into the same work cycles… not knowing any better. This last time in 2013 was different. I ran myself so far into the ground, with the help of ignorant MDs who had no care in treating me or interest in how to do it better or understand the real problems that I should have been in the hospital. I resigned again, cashed out savings after retirement account to pay living expenses since I was unable to work and to pay for medical exploration and it still took a year to gets to the point of understanding the context of my lyme situation. And it took me a year of a PERFECT approach to treatment with very little progress and a lot more research to realize I wasn't going to make any progress w/out addressing the adrenal/neurotransmitter and gut health.

And there was NO WAY around it other than to stop the stress and physical exertion. Your parasympathetic functions and adrenal reserves cannot be built back with foods or meds or supplements. Only a significant amount of time and a reversal of the drivers of the exhaustion will make an impact.

I realize you're in the situation you're in but I really wish someone had hit me over the head with this: you have to figure a way out. I won't bother with suggestions for the farm because it's way out of my realm of knowledge and it's good that in time, the farm will become less of a stressor. But until then, you're in a standstill. And, you've got to figure out a way to either eliminate your sister's presence or impact or find a way to successfully remove your vulnerabilities to it. I have no good advice for that—I was able to move 1000s of miles away from my stressors.

Anyway, fwiw.

-p

I am really familiar with the tired and wired thing. I had it with die-off not too long ago. It was like I shot up out of bed but I was so tired and wanted to sleep. But my body & brain had other plans.

I used to have this for years. I've had horrendous insomnia since the age of 15 until 30. It's only now that I have actually slept. No one believed me but I would sleep like 15 mins a night. It was pure torture. I didn't want to die but I often thought it would be much preferable to the insomnia.

I have been experiencing fatigue and I know it's from the treatment. When I was on heavy duty treatment I would get so tired I barely had the energy to climb stairs or do anything.

I'm on a reduced treatment dose and I still have fatigue but it's the kind of fatigue where I can actually go to a spinning class for an hour. I get tired afterwards usually but changing the medication made a HUGE difference.

I thought I was over babesia :( Am totally not. These infections are no joke.

Wow-interesting to hear others with the "stuck in high gear" biz.
P~good insight, as always :)

Sayya~I started very slow on the Art, just one a day & it kicked butt. Again, it might be just be my fragile system (wbc acute w/it). But I really would recommend dosing up very slowly.
Re your sis-as she seems to be a toxic thing for you, & you feel the need to communicate your feelings (that does show some passion & care), write it & sit on it for a lonnnggg while before sending. Remember, even if you are completely in the right, some things cannot be taken back. And the very act of writing, might just exorcise enough emotions & demons that you may not even later want to send.
So sry you are so burdened with all of the animal chores, etc. I know it is a burden of love, but seriously you need to get someone to come in & help! Any place to advertise for volunteers?