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Posted 1/7/2016 12:02 AM (GMT 0)
Did anyone that has been diagnosed feel so drugged and so weird but hard to describe exactly?

And did youre surroundings and family members ever feel distorted and or fake like? just curious.I seriously think i have lyme.But havnt been diagnosed yet getting igenix soon.

I ask because lately i just feel drugged.Its hard for me to drive or anything.especially bad when i go to stores or just in public,And driving also have faint feelings as well.N now my surroundings and people just feel so fake.I question my reality alot.Is this real is that real.Am i just halucinating yada yada ya. but then i snap out of it n say they were all real before you felt like this why wouldnt they be now.Its a viscious cycle lol

thank you in advance.
God Bless.
Posted 1/7/2016 12:08 AM (GMT 0)
I totally relate and am very happy that part of these infections is long behind me.

You'll feel better with proper treatment.
Posted 1/7/2016 12:11 AM (GMT 0)
thank you.i know it may be early for me to be asking these questions lol.But im at the end of the medical rope.I clear on every test lol.Im just really anxious to get the igenix now.
Posted 1/7/2016 12:22 AM (GMT 0)
I have too - actually quite a few people experience those feelings when they have Lyme. It's called depersonalization or sometimes derealization.

And many report feeling drunk, even though they have not consumed any alcohol.

These are some of the symptoms of Lyme.
And if you are having these symptoms, then it's definitely not too early to ask about them!!

Having all your tests come back "normal", yet feel like you've been run over by a semi is also common with Lyme!

But if you are having feelings like you might faint or are light headed, then please don't drive.We would hate to hear that you were involved in an accident!!
Posted 1/7/2016 12:31 AM (GMT 0)
Hi ghost!-

I have felt like I wasn't sure that I was awake when I actually was. I don't even know how to explain it. It was like you said, being drugged up.

I have had the uncertainty about my surroundings. I haven't driven my car since last March.

Best Wishes!
Posted 1/7/2016 12:42 AM (GMT 0)
oh my goodness!! thank you all! i havnt drove in 6 months.I mean i drive a block or 2 at the max but thats it.All of you guys telling me this really continues to add to me thinking i have lyme.I mean dont get me wrong i dont want lyme disease or any disease for that matter but an answer would be amazing lol.Im definetly ordering a igenix lol.
I have also questioned if i was awake several times.but mainly i question if everything is real or if im halucinating.wich is just rediculous in my oppinion.ive never thought or felt anything like this ever.So why would i think it now it really just makes me urrrgggg
Posted 1/7/2016 12:46 AM (GMT 0)
Did any of you guys just feel out of youre head? like just so out of youre head that you felt you could possibly start talking and making no sense what so ever? it hasnt happend noone says i dont make sense but thats how out of my head i feel sometimes.mainly just the last 3 weeks.
Posted 1/7/2016 1:05 AM (GMT 0)
Hi ghost!-

My last day of work; which is over a year now, I felt like my whole body gave up on me. The only way I can try to explain it is like a car. I had no more gas in the tank and I was running on fumes. (I hope this might make sense?) lol!

I felt like I was completely mentally and physically burned out! I was always pushing my body just to do my daily functions (job, house chores..ect) until it just gave up and I had nothing more to give. This might sound weird, but it is as if my body mentally and physically shut down.
Posted 1/7/2016 1:11 AM (GMT 0)
yea that definetly makes sense.Its just i honestly feel mentally ill.Like i dont feel like im in my right mind at all.I dont Want to do anything violent or anything like that.I just dont feel ok psychologically i guess.I mean it hasnt been like this but for 3 weeks but it sure scares the crap out of me.
Posted 1/7/2016 1:17 AM (GMT 0)
You are not crazy......I still deal with those exact sensations....every few days,it will get better...find an LLMD....get proper treatment.

Paleo diet is a good start
Posted 1/7/2016 1:21 AM (GMT 0)
thank you! lol.IM glad you said that lol.Its just very scary.Ive even read up on how to tell if i am n it all said a good start is if you think you are then you arnt lol!
i plan on making an appointment as soon as i get the igenix done.
Posted 1/7/2016 1:23 AM (GMT 0)
Lyme and co's does crazy things to our heads.

In the beginning I felt like I didn't know who I was anymore...it kinda freaked my husband out.
It lasted several weeks along with anxiety and bouts of depression.
I did feel like I was losing my mind at times.
Posted 1/7/2016 1:32 AM (GMT 0)
its crazy to think such a little bug or a walk in the forest could do this.I have bad anxiety while i feel like this.Anyone would i think.Like i literately just feel so out of my head I feel i could completely lose touch with reality.N that should give you anxiety in my oppinion lol im just really excited to get igenix and get treated i do have anxiety that what if it dosnt show anyting then what? because i mean i really feel lyme is my last hope for an answer.
Posted 1/7/2016 1:40 AM (GMT 0)
n you said you felt like you didnt know who you were.I havnt had that exactly buti get feelings of not knowing were i am for a split second and im in a house ive lived in since i was 13 im 22 now.soon to be 23.I also see people that ive known my whole life or my girlfriend for 4 years and i feel like i dont know them for a little but i do know them deep down its just that type of feeling its weird and very hard to describe.
Posted 1/7/2016 1:51 AM (GMT 0)
The only way I can describe my symptoms are the same as Alzheimer's or Dementia. I get lost a lot in my house also. My house is small, and I am constantly going into the wrong room for what I am looking for. I am 38 years old!

I have forgotten my husbands name. I had a herx that I was Not sure if I was married to him or if I lived in my house. I was 70- 80 percent unsure of my surroundings. I was crying the whole time. I even looked at a wedding picture of me and my husband. I had a hard time recognizing myself in the picture.
Posted 1/7/2016 2:18 AM (GMT 0)
maaaan. that sounds horrible.
I feel like i dont know were im at but i do.Also i feel like i dont know whos around me but i do.n just the way my mind is and the thoughts and feelings i feel mentally ill.
Posted 1/7/2016 2:27 AM (GMT 0)
I was usually okay in my house...but I would get uncomfortable in restaurants...worried that I would have to go to the restroom...and then would look foolish trying to find my table after.
So, I would look around me, and study my surroundings before going.

My husband and I went to a concert...and I had to go to the washroom, and he said "I'm going with you - I'll take you there...I don't want you to get lost on your way back to the seats"

lol
Posted 1/7/2016 2:40 AM (GMT 0)
I feel better in my own home honestly.All of this just started.In the beginning i didnt want to go anywere because how weird i felt.BUt would drag myself to the doctors.Now its started to become some issues with being at home but only for about 3 weeks now.I have completely home bodied myself because how weird i feel.
Posted 1/7/2016 2:50 AM (GMT 0)
My husband took me to the grocery store. I took the cart with groceries out to the car while he went to get beer. That was a mistake! I couldn't find the car at all! I was wondering around the parking lot like a weirdo. I kept hitting the unlock button for the car, but never found it. So I wheeled the cart back to the front of the store and waited for him.

Sometimes when my symptoms flare up bad, my husband sets the "little bear trap " at night. This is when he puts up the dog gate, so if I try to wonder off, I would trip over it and make a noise. So far I haven't set off the "alarm"! Ha ha ha! Lol!

This disease is horrible! Like so many people here have said, you don't understand unless you personally go through it. "You don't get it unless you get it "
Posted 1/7/2016 2:58 AM (GMT 0)
daaang. see im not doing anything like that thankfully.but have read that everyone deals with it and is affected differently i just feel really weird.sometimes not so bad sometimes very bad! i have completely forgot how to use a calculator but it came to me in a few minutes.n i search for words alot.
Posted 1/7/2016 3:03 AM (GMT 0)
I certainly feel spacey and like I'm in a dream at times. Always seems worse in the grocery store.
Posted 1/7/2016 3:08 AM (GMT 0)
its always worse in public for me.Always lol.It has eased off and on for me as well now i just feel weird in general and question my sanity.
Posted 1/7/2016 6:21 AM (GMT 0)
Hi ghost,

I'm actually really glad I read your post today. This is exactly how I feel all the time. It's like being stuck on a constant LSD trip or something. I wasn't sure if other lymies had this side effect. I think they call it depersonalization or something.

I get worried sometimes that this side effect is not lyme, and is a result of taking a drug called propecia in the past. But you saying you have this same side effect gives me a lot of encouragement! :)

I haven't kicked this depersonalization issue yet, but it sounds like others have had the same thing, and they've managed to kick it. So there is hope for us yet! :)

I remember when I didn't know what I was sick from, I would get nervous about hanging out with people because I felt like I was on drugs. Like I smoked weed or something, and they could tell I was acting strangely.

Once I found out that my illness was lyme, it was kind of a relief, because I can know just tell people, 'sorry, I have lyme disease' and it makes everything ok. haha. I get to tell myself that too, which is also a relief.
Posted 1/7/2016 6:22 AM (GMT 0)
Ghost93,

I think many of us felt or feel like you do.
I had very bad spells where everything around me felt weird and spinning and with odd lights.Also in my own kitchen, furniture seemed in a different relationship to each other, larger, etc, lights odd.For a while everything seemed unfamiliar, and even smelled unfamiliar.It was awful.And being awake I was not fully conscious, also sleeping was so light it seemed I was awake.I was in a constant maze.I thought I will never recover.And I think I had it worst between august and october.
I would say from this point of wiev I recovered 70%, and the mental impairment 80%.And this in just 3 months of treatment, detox, diet, exercise.You can get better for sure.The problem is to find a good LLMD and to stick to treatment long enough(both you and the LLMD!).Also after to keep detox, diet and some herbs as your routine forever.
Start maybe paleo diet, like suggested and slowly the detox methods in the ”New to Lyme„ thread, the first thread in this forum.Do the Igenex test and concomitantly find a LLMD, if it is not lyme you can cancel, but getting an appointment takes time.(For this you can start a thread with ”Looking for an LLMD in the . . . region”.People here help a lot with everything, you can ask questions along the way.I wish you good luck with it and always keep your hope up, many of the symptoms, or all of them can disappear.
Posted 1/7/2016 6:49 AM (GMT 0)
Thank you all for all the help and encouraging words.I like how everyone here can relate it just keeps making me think all this is lyme.Im so ready for my western blot.Did anyone ever feel creeped out or wigged out by things that never bothered them before? like large image print t-shirts? with alot of faces or something? gruesome pictures? and or conspiracy theories? they never bothered me before but now it just kind of creeps me out.
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