Mental symptoms in a herx

Herxing can ramp up any of the symptoms...including the brain.

I have had a worsening of anxiety when herxing....it's horrible...

What do you do for detoxing? When you herx...focus on that...
make sure you stay hydrated.
Do you take warm epsom salt baths?

Are you taking care of your gut health? Probiotics?

I don't think its just from the die off alone either. I think the psych stuff too is from suffering from such a chronic and complex disease and always worrying about outcomes and what the future holds.

can u take holy basil it helped get me thru alinia herxes....hang in there it kinda like a really long bad dream...

I put a post-it on my wall that literally says "Bartonella causes anxiety," because I would get these rushes of anxiety out of nowhere during a herx and it wouldn't make any sense. Once you tell yourself it's the disease your rational brain can handle it better.

I also recommend listening to Meditative Mind calming music on YouTube.

Woodduck12 said...
Does bart cause what feels like a rough of anxiety with rage? That has been happing to me a lot. Its scary because the rage is consuming. I hate it. The good news my executive function is improving a lot. Just got to get this nervous system in check. With the rage and anxiety always comes with nueropathy in the feet as well as head pressure.

It is known to. I have also had considerable rage and many neuro symptoms from mold toxins and/or toxins produced by pathogens in my GI tract. I have neuropathy in the feet and head pressure, too. I also get numbness in my face, head, body and stiff neck with or without headache or head press. I finally realized most of my symptoms were not from bart but from GI toxins - likely fungal but bacterial and parasitic as well.

Do you notice your symptoms get worse when reading? Whether it be by text, a book or a computer? I'm currently studying for a certification exam set for June. I try and take many breaks but the head pain, dizziness get so debilitating and I start to feel nauseous. Someone told me that's a classic case of encephalitis.

Sunflower1920 said...
I just started getting sore feet around the time I began the shots, very sore. Weird I never had it prior. I was always asked that by my LLMD and a few lyme literate friends and the answer was always no.

I have experienced different forms of “sore feet,” and I feel like each has a different cause.

Bone pain - Ex. getting out of the car or standing after sitting and feet and ankles feel stiff and it feels like the bones are involved. This is the one I think most associate with bartonella, although mold/yeast can also cause joint pain and stiffness and foot pain.

Neuropathy - could be tingling, burning, numbness or a combination. I sometimes feel it in bottoms of feet or tops of feet and toes. When on top, I have associated it with MCAS, as it often occurs when I am eating.

Soreness - I have felt what I call a true “soreness” in my soles and palms of hands. I have also had it in the inside of my elbows. It feels sore. The kind of sore you feel around a wound or a recovering insect bite. My doc said it was from toxic debris circulating through the blood. When in my palms, my hands will feel sore and tender when I am washing them.

I could be totally off with differentiations about the causes. They could be all or none caused from bartonella. I just know I associate the different feelings with different causes.

Is bicillin known to kill bart? I'm not real familiar with it.

Thanks, Girlie.

Sunflower1920, just a thought but perhaps you should try a protocol that targets Bartonella better. I was just on a Lyme/Babesia protocol that only seemed to make my Bart symptoms worse. As I said, it's just a thought.