A few questions about anxiety

I don't know how I will ever get through this over the top anxiety. Blood pressure is 198/91 and heart rate over 100. I had to double my blood pressure meds over a year ago and it wasn't anxiety that caused the spike back then.

I am at a loss on what to do. I am seeing a functional chiropractic doc for my methylation issues but that is not going very well. I have many snps but when he introduces a supplement it doesn't go very well. I have spent a bit of money on this problem and now I don't trust him. I think my pathways were opening up too fast? He would get upset if I cut to lower doses to start. I still have a hard time figuring out the methylation issues because my brain just does not want to function. Anyway, I may be dropping out of this treatment but need to know what supplements to take for the mthfr and cbs problems.

I need to know if this anxiety is from the diseases which I think is the case. Is it more Lyme or Bart? When you treated Lyme did your anxiety decrease or did you eventually find out it was bart causing it all along? I hope I am making sense.

It seems to me that Buhner's tinctures can tend to cause anxiety until things settle down. Have you found this is the case?

How long did it take for your anxiety to settle down and what treatment do you think helped?

I have such bad thoughts of ending it all right now and this is scary. I seriously do not know how long I can do this. The only thing keeping me going is needing to care for my husband but I think I am more of a hindrance than supportive even though he doesn't think so. I am finding no relief whatsoever.

My worst symptoms are: of course the anxiety, insomnia setting in, difficulty breathing, especially when upping the tinctures, EXTREME blurry/double vision, at times fatigue (not happening while in this wild state right now), depressive thoughts, racing heart (not worried about it), head pressure and not feeling I am of this world. Of course there are many others but I can deal with those (chills or feeling warm, no appetite, decreased hearing, photosensitivity, tremors, not integrating information, occasional balance problems, sinus problems with a bit of mucus production, rage, and many others). Never had foot pain, lymph node problems, bone/joint pain.

I have been off antibiotics for at least a year except for adding in the occasional doxycycline. LLMD won't treat until I get the methylation pathways working. Duh!!!! Will only give me the doxy.

I really don't know what I am asking but any thoughts would be appreciated. I sound like a broken record.

Patty

First of all, stick to your guns about starting at the lower doses, Patty. YOU are the one that lives in that body, not the doctor. He gets to go home at night and sleep well, no anxiety and all those other things that happen for you. This is YOUR body, not his. He is supposed to guide you, not make you crash.

It sounds like you have more Lyme symptoms than anything, although the presence of Bart would also explain why your Neuro symptoms are all high - even though you don't have the "classic" symptoms of Bart.

For me, I discovered that I have a bit of anxiety even when I'm healed (it actually surprised me! LOL!), but I wasn't healed long enough to know for sure what level of anxiety is really "normal" for me. The only thing that has helped me much was Avena sativa - and I can safely vary the amount I take daily, depending on what I seem to be needing.

I have been on pharma meds for anxiety, but really hated the way they made me feel - even more disconnected to the world - but they were a life saver at first.

Have you tried getting help through a forum like mthfr.net?

Some of your symptoms could be from inappropriate use of B vitamins: anxiety is a normal symptom for people who don't tolerate high levels of some B vitamins. Just increasing or changing the dosage too quickly or using the wrong form can also do it.

Methylation is like Lyme treatment: start very low and go up very slowly.

I found this while looking back through the list of posts for to see if you've put up your 23and me results yet. If you can do that, we can start to look at where you could start looking.

For example: my son (treating bartonella), doesn't get anxiety, but became very irritable in a way that was quite uncomfortable. The first Bartonella herb - Japanese knotweed - made that irritability disappear within minutes of the first micro-dose.

He can still get very irritable, but it's back to a different type of irritable. The sort we can handle with our experience in B vitamins. We've found that it can usually be disappeared with some potassium gluconate (as part of a chocolate milk) or some form of folate (methylfolate or folinic depending on other symptoms at the time). B2 is key for my son in all this.

This thread on the Phoenix Rising forum might help. It summarises many important points: New protocol thanks to Freddd--going off hydroxy B12, starting methyl B12

Mine is linked to low adrenals primarily and as a result of these infections.

Big cat, pharma drugs should not be frowned upon by anyone here. We all have our own paths, and as someone that had extreme anxiety attacks (4 - 5 a day) for over a year, I went on Xanax, which helped, until I could find something else that would help. We have to do what we have to do in order to function. Anyone that has had an extreme anxiety attack would agree. No need to suffer through that, and it's not going to help your body to try to not lower the anxiety in your body.

I agree Trav I just didn't want it to look like I was pushing something

You guys are so fantastic. Thank you for the responses.

ccc-better, I am not sure what to post from my 23andme. There are so many with snp's. Maybe you can give me an idea and I will post them. I wish I had followed my gut instinct to start very low and go slow on the methylation supplements. Although there were times I only took 1 cap instead of two but then would up to 2 too fast. The doctor changed my B vitamins (methyl genetic nutrition) which contains B1, B2, niacin, B6 and biotin. This doesn't sound right to me but I am sure it was done for a reason. I did stop them 2 days ago until I know his reasoning. His appointment is in a week.

I had taken Xanax .5 to .75 mg 3 times a day when I first got floxed (Levaquin toxicity) in 2008 for 2 months and and weaned off in a month. The withdrawal effects were horrendous. So, for me, I will never touch another benzo as long as I live. I am glad that none of you had any problems stopping but that is not the case for many.

YellowCat, I have a good detox program going. Thanks for your concern.

The past 2 days have been better but I know the high anxiety will come back again.....negative thinking? I slept 6 hours last night which was a blessing but still not enough. I do better with 7. My anxiety is more trembling at the moment. I upped the motherwort to 8 drops 3x daily and take a calm formula when needed.

Traveler, keeping my mind busy does help a little. It takes my mind off from me. I did a tiny bit of weeding this morning. As long as I stay on my knees I don't get too weak and fatigued.

I will check out the sites posted.

Patty xo

Treating bart has definitely helped ...holy basil saved my life .some dont process methl and need hydroxy b12 ..for cbs i eat a lot of aspargus ...nutramedix makes one called sparga also